- Add default convenience set of load paths for vanilla rack apps - Dir.chdir('/WEB-INF') { ... } during Rack app initialization so that rackup scripts can "load './some/file'" - Allow rackup script to be set from a file in addition to the servlet context - scan webapp for files named config.ru? - Add ability to specify custom Rack middleware for Rails - Get rid of RackApplicationFactory; make custom factories just a decorating RackApplication instead - Move JRuby runtime factory logic into separate small factory that accepts a rackup script - Introduce application bootstrap strategy concept - Get rid of custom context listeners, instead accept a "application type" context init param - The default application bootstrap strategy should be a new automatic bootstrapper that attempts to detect the application type - Try to support a public root other than '/' in RackFilter - Rails: detect JNDI connections and auto-close connections after each request (clear_active_connections!)