diff --git a/spring-boot-autoconfigure/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/autoconfigure/web/ServerProperties.java b/spring-boot-autoconfigure/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/autoconfigure/web/ServerProperties.java
index 7b9ebcb31a..a1a854a0e9 100644
--- a/spring-boot-autoconfigure/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/autoconfigure/web/ServerProperties.java
+++ b/spring-boot-autoconfigure/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/autoconfigure/web/ServerProperties.java
@@ -19,8 +19,10 @@ package org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.web;
 import java.io.File;
 import java.net.InetAddress;
 import java.nio.charset.Charset;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Collection;
 import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Set;
 
@@ -72,6 +74,7 @@ import org.springframework.boot.web.servlet.ServletContextInitializer;
 import org.springframework.context.EnvironmentAware;
 import org.springframework.core.Ordered;
 import org.springframework.core.env.Environment;
+import org.springframework.util.ObjectUtils;
 import org.springframework.util.StringUtils;
 
 /**
@@ -671,6 +674,13 @@ public class ServerProperties
 		 */
 		private int acceptCount = 0;
 
+		/**
+		 * Comma-separated list of additional patterns that match jars to ignore for
+		 * TLD scanning. The special '?' and '*' characters can be used in the pattern
+		 * to match one and only one character and zero or more characters respectively.
+		 */
+		private List<String> additionalTldSkipPatterns = new ArrayList<String>();
+
 		public int getMaxThreads() {
 			return this.maxThreads;
 		}
@@ -779,6 +789,14 @@ public class ServerProperties
 			this.acceptCount = acceptCount;
 		}
 
+		public List<String> getAdditionalTldSkipPatterns() {
+			return this.additionalTldSkipPatterns;
+		}
+
+		public void setAdditionalTldSkipPatterns(List<String> additionalTldSkipPatterns) {
+			this.additionalTldSkipPatterns = additionalTldSkipPatterns;
+		}
+
 		void customizeTomcat(ServerProperties serverProperties,
 				TomcatEmbeddedServletContainerFactory factory) {
 			if (getBasedir() != null) {
@@ -819,6 +837,9 @@ public class ServerProperties
 			if (this.acceptCount > 0) {
 				customizeAcceptCount(factory);
 			}
+			if (!ObjectUtils.isEmpty(this.additionalTldSkipPatterns)) {
+				factory.getTldSkipPatterns().addAll(this.additionalTldSkipPatterns);
+			}
 		}
 
 		private void customizeAcceptCount(TomcatEmbeddedServletContainerFactory factory) {
diff --git a/spring-boot-autoconfigure/src/test/java/org/springframework/boot/autoconfigure/web/ServerPropertiesTests.java b/spring-boot-autoconfigure/src/test/java/org/springframework/boot/autoconfigure/web/ServerPropertiesTests.java
index 5ef13ccf81..e67990ab85 100644
--- a/spring-boot-autoconfigure/src/test/java/org/springframework/boot/autoconfigure/web/ServerPropertiesTests.java
+++ b/spring-boot-autoconfigure/src/test/java/org/springframework/boot/autoconfigure/web/ServerPropertiesTests.java
@@ -488,6 +488,32 @@ public class ServerPropertiesTests {
 		verify(container).setAccessLogRotate(false);
 	}
 
+	@Test
+	public void customTomcatTldSkip() {
+		Map<String, String> map = new HashMap<String, String>();
+		map.put("server.tomcat.additional-tld-skip-patterns", "foo.jar,bar.jar");
+		bindProperties(map);
+
+		testCustomTomcatTldSkip("foo.jar", "bar.jar");
+	}
+
+	@Test
+	public void customTomcatTldSkipAsList() {
+		Map<String, String> map = new HashMap<String, String>();
+		map.put("server.tomcat.additional-tld-skip-patterns[0]", "biz.jar");
+		map.put("server.tomcat.additional-tld-skip-patterns[1]", "bah.jar");
+		bindProperties(map);
+
+		testCustomTomcatTldSkip("biz.jar", "bah.jar");
+	}
+
+	private void testCustomTomcatTldSkip(String... expectedJars) {
+		TomcatEmbeddedServletContainerFactory container = new TomcatEmbeddedServletContainerFactory();
+		this.properties.customize(container);
+		assertThat(container.getTldSkipPatterns()).contains(expectedJars);
+		assertThat(container.getTldSkipPatterns()).contains("junit-*.jar", "spring-boot-*.jar");
+	}
+
 	@Test
 	public void defaultUseForwardHeadersUndertow() throws Exception {
 		UndertowEmbeddedServletContainerFactory container = spy(
diff --git a/spring-boot-docs/src/main/asciidoc/appendix-application-properties.adoc b/spring-boot-docs/src/main/asciidoc/appendix-application-properties.adoc
index 9e982f6e61..fbca0920c1 100644
--- a/spring-boot-docs/src/main/asciidoc/appendix-application-properties.adoc
+++ b/spring-boot-docs/src/main/asciidoc/appendix-application-properties.adoc
@@ -201,6 +201,7 @@ content into your application; rather pick only the properties that you need.
 	server.tomcat.accesslog.rename-on-rotate=false # Defer inclusion of the date stamp in the file name until rotate time.
 	server.tomcat.accesslog.rotate=true # Enable access log rotation.
 	server.tomcat.accesslog.suffix=.log # Log file name suffix.
+	server.tomcat.additional-tld-skip-patterns= # Comma-separated list of additional patterns that match jars to ignore for TLD scanning.
 	server.tomcat.background-processor-delay=30 # Delay in seconds between the invocation of backgroundProcess methods.
 	server.tomcat.basedir= # Tomcat base directory. If not specified a temporary directory will be used.
 	server.tomcat.internal-proxies=10\\.\\d{1,3}\\.\\d{1,3}\\.\\d{1,3}|\\
diff --git a/spring-boot/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/context/embedded/tomcat/SkipPatternJarScanner.java b/spring-boot/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/context/embedded/tomcat/SkipPatternJarScanner.java
index 26a2c11001..57d96402d3 100644
--- a/spring-boot/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/context/embedded/tomcat/SkipPatternJarScanner.java
+++ b/spring-boot/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/context/embedded/tomcat/SkipPatternJarScanner.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2012-2014 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2012-2016 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -17,10 +17,10 @@
 package org.springframework.boot.context.embedded.tomcat;
 
 import java.lang.reflect.Method;
+import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.LinkedHashSet;
 import java.util.Set;
-import java.util.StringTokenizer;
 
 import javax.servlet.ServletContext;
 
@@ -40,7 +40,8 @@ import org.springframework.util.StringUtils;
  * {@link JarScanner} due to API changes introduced in Tomcat 8.
  *
  * @author Phillip Webb
- * @see #apply(TomcatEmbeddedContext, String)
+ * @author Stephane Nicoll
+ * @see #apply(TomcatEmbeddedContext, Set)
  */
 class SkipPatternJarScanner extends StandardJarScanner {
 
@@ -50,10 +51,10 @@ class SkipPatternJarScanner extends StandardJarScanner {
 
 	private final SkipPattern pattern;
 
-	SkipPatternJarScanner(JarScanner jarScanner, String pattern) {
+	SkipPatternJarScanner(JarScanner jarScanner, Set<String> patterns) {
 		Assert.notNull(jarScanner, "JarScanner must not be null");
 		this.jarScanner = jarScanner;
-		this.pattern = (pattern == null ? new SkipPattern() : new SkipPattern(pattern));
+		this.pattern = (patterns == null ? new SkipPattern(defaultPatterns()) : new SkipPattern(patterns));
 		setPatternToTomcat8SkipFilter(this.pattern);
 	}
 
@@ -79,14 +80,106 @@ class SkipPatternJarScanner extends StandardJarScanner {
 		}
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * Return the default skip patterns to use.
+	 * @return the default skip patterns
+	 */
+	static Set<String> defaultPatterns() {
+		return new LinkedHashSet<String>(Arrays.asList(
+				// Same as Tomcat
+				"ant-*.jar",
+				"aspectj*.jar",
+				"commons-beanutils*.jar",
+				"commons-codec*.jar",
+				"commons-collections*.jar",
+				"commons-dbcp*.jar",
+				"commons-digester*.jar",
+				"commons-fileupload*.jar",
+				"commons-httpclient*.jar",
+				"commons-io*.jar",
+				"commons-lang*.jar",
+				"commons-logging*.jar",
+				"commons-math*.jar",
+				"commons-pool*.jar",
+				"geronimo-spec-jaxrpc*.jar",
+				"h2*.jar",
+				"hamcrest*.jar",
+				"hibernate*.jar",
+				"jmx*.jar",
+				"jmx-tools-*.jar",
+				"jta*.jar",
+				"junit-*.jar",
+				"httpclient*.jar",
+				"log4j-*.jar",
+				"mail*.jar",
+				"org.hamcrest*.jar",
+				"slf4j*.jar",
+				"tomcat-embed-core-*.jar",
+				"tomcat-embed-logging-*.jar",
+				"tomcat-jdbc-*.jar",
+				"tomcat-juli-*.jar",
+				"tools.jar",
+				"wsdl4j*.jar",
+				"xercesImpl-*.jar",
+				"xmlParserAPIs-*.jar",
+				"xml-apis-*.jar",
+
+				// Additional
+				"antlr-*.jar",
+				"aopalliance-*.jar",
+				"aspectjrt-*.jar",
+				"aspectjweaver-*.jar",
+				"classmate-*.jar",
+				"dom4j-*.jar",
+				"ecj-*.jar",
+				"ehcache-core-*.jar",
+				"hibernate-core-*.jar",
+				"hibernate-commons-annotations-*.jar",
+				"hibernate-entitymanager-*.jar",
+				"hibernate-jpa-2.1-api-*.jar",
+				"hibernate-validator-*.jar",
+				"hsqldb-*.jar",
+				"jackson-annotations-*.jar",
+				"jackson-core-*.jar",
+				"jackson-databind-*.jar",
+				"jandex-*.jar",
+				"javassist-*.jar",
+				"jboss-logging-*.jar",
+				"jboss-transaction-api_*.jar",
+				"jcl-over-slf4j-*.jar",
+				"jdom-*.jar",
+				"jul-to-slf4j-*.jar",
+				"log4j-over-slf4j-*.jar",
+				"logback-classic-*.jar",
+				"logback-core-*.jar",
+				"rome-*.jar",
+				"slf4j-api-*.jar",
+				"spring-aop-*.jar",
+				"spring-aspects-*.jar",
+				"spring-beans-*.jar",
+				"spring-boot-*.jar",
+				"spring-core-*.jar",
+				"spring-context-*.jar",
+				"spring-data-*.jar",
+				"spring-expression-*.jar",
+				"spring-jdbc-*.jar,",
+				"spring-orm-*.jar",
+				"spring-oxm-*.jar",
+				"spring-tx-*.jar",
+				"snakeyaml-*.jar",
+				"tomcat-embed-el-*.jar",
+				"validation-api-*.jar",
+				"xml-apis-*.jar"));
+	}
+
 	/**
 	 * Apply this decorator the specified context.
 	 * @param context the context to apply to
-	 * @param pattern the jar skip pattern or {@code null} for defaults
+	 * @param patterns the jar skip patterns or {@code null} for defaults
 	 */
-	public static void apply(TomcatEmbeddedContext context, String pattern) {
+	static void apply(TomcatEmbeddedContext context, Set<String> patterns) {
 		SkipPatternJarScanner scanner = new SkipPatternJarScanner(context.getJarScanner(),
-				pattern);
+				patterns);
 		context.setJarScanner(scanner);
 	}
 
@@ -116,97 +209,9 @@ class SkipPatternJarScanner extends StandardJarScanner {
 
 		private Set<String> patterns = new LinkedHashSet<String>();
 
-		protected SkipPattern() {
-			// Same as Tomcat
-			add("ant-*.jar");
-			add("aspectj*.jar");
-			add("commons-beanutils*.jar");
-			add("commons-codec*.jar");
-			add("commons-collections*.jar");
-			add("commons-dbcp*.jar");
-			add("commons-digester*.jar");
-			add("commons-fileupload*.jar");
-			add("commons-httpclient*.jar");
-			add("commons-io*.jar");
-			add("commons-lang*.jar");
-			add("commons-logging*.jar");
-			add("commons-math*.jar");
-			add("commons-pool*.jar");
-			add("geronimo-spec-jaxrpc*.jar");
-			add("h2*.jar");
-			add("hamcrest*.jar");
-			add("hibernate*.jar");
-			add("jmx*.jar");
-			add("jmx-tools-*.jar");
-			add("jta*.jar");
-			add("junit-*.jar");
-			add("httpclient*.jar");
-			add("log4j-*.jar");
-			add("mail*.jar");
-			add("org.hamcrest*.jar");
-			add("slf4j*.jar");
-			add("tomcat-embed-core-*.jar");
-			add("tomcat-embed-logging-*.jar");
-			add("tomcat-jdbc-*.jar");
-			add("tomcat-juli-*.jar");
-			add("tools.jar");
-			add("wsdl4j*.jar");
-			add("xercesImpl-*.jar");
-			add("xmlParserAPIs-*.jar");
-			add("xml-apis-*.jar");
-
-			// Additional
-			add("antlr-*.jar");
-			add("aopalliance-*.jar");
-			add("aspectjrt-*.jar");
-			add("aspectjweaver-*.jar");
-			add("classmate-*.jar");
-			add("dom4j-*.jar");
-			add("ecj-*.jar");
-			add("ehcache-core-*.jar");
-			add("hibernate-core-*.jar");
-			add("hibernate-commons-annotations-*.jar");
-			add("hibernate-entitymanager-*.jar");
-			add("hibernate-jpa-2.1-api-*.jar");
-			add("hibernate-validator-*.jar");
-			add("hsqldb-*.jar");
-			add("jackson-annotations-*.jar");
-			add("jackson-core-*.jar");
-			add("jackson-databind-*.jar");
-			add("jandex-*.jar");
-			add("javassist-*.jar");
-			add("jboss-logging-*.jar");
-			add("jboss-transaction-api_*.jar");
-			add("jcl-over-slf4j-*.jar");
-			add("jdom-*.jar");
-			add("jul-to-slf4j-*.jar");
-			add("log4j-over-slf4j-*.jar");
-			add("logback-classic-*.jar");
-			add("logback-core-*.jar");
-			add("rome-*.jar");
-			add("slf4j-api-*.jar");
-			add("spring-aop-*.jar");
-			add("spring-aspects-*.jar");
-			add("spring-beans-*.jar");
-			add("spring-boot-*.jar");
-			add("spring-core-*.jar");
-			add("spring-context-*.jar");
-			add("spring-data-*.jar");
-			add("spring-expression-*.jar");
-			add("spring-jdbc-*.jar,");
-			add("spring-orm-*.jar");
-			add("spring-oxm-*.jar");
-			add("spring-tx-*.jar");
-			add("snakeyaml-*.jar");
-			add("tomcat-embed-el-*.jar");
-			add("validation-api-*.jar");
-			add("xml-apis-*.jar");
-		}
-
-		SkipPattern(String patterns) {
-			StringTokenizer tokenizer = new StringTokenizer(patterns, ",");
-			while (tokenizer.hasMoreElements()) {
-				add(tokenizer.nextToken());
+		SkipPattern(Set<String> patterns) {
+			for (String pattern : patterns) {
+				add(pattern);
 			}
 		}
 
diff --git a/spring-boot/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/context/embedded/tomcat/TomcatEmbeddedServletContainerFactory.java b/spring-boot/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/context/embedded/tomcat/TomcatEmbeddedServletContainerFactory.java
index cc644a08c0..103acdbf8a 100644
--- a/spring-boot/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/context/embedded/tomcat/TomcatEmbeddedServletContainerFactory.java
+++ b/spring-boot/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/context/embedded/tomcat/TomcatEmbeddedServletContainerFactory.java
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.Collection;
 import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.LinkedHashSet;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Locale;
 import java.util.Map;
@@ -125,7 +126,8 @@ public class TomcatEmbeddedServletContainerFactory
 
 	private String protocol = DEFAULT_PROTOCOL;
 
-	private String tldSkip;
+	private Set<String> tldSkipPatterns = new LinkedHashSet<String>(
+			SkipPatternJarScanner.defaultPatterns());
 
 	private Charset uriEncoding = DEFAULT_CHARSET;
 
@@ -204,7 +206,7 @@ public class TomcatEmbeddedServletContainerFactory
 		catch (NoSuchMethodError ex) {
 			// Tomcat is < 8.0.30. Continue
 		}
-		SkipPatternJarScanner.apply(context, this.tldSkip);
+		SkipPatternJarScanner.apply(context, this.tldSkipPatterns);
 		WebappLoader loader = new WebappLoader(context.getParentClassLoader());
 		loader.setLoaderClass(TomcatEmbeddedWebappClassLoader.class.getName());
 		loader.setDelegate(true);
@@ -552,10 +554,41 @@ public class TomcatEmbeddedServletContainerFactory
 	 * A comma-separated list of jars to ignore for TLD scanning. See Tomcat's
 	 * catalina.properties for typical values. Defaults to a list drawn from that source.
 	 * @param tldSkip the jars to skip when scanning for TLDs etc
+	 * @deprecated since 1.5.0 in favor of {@link #setTldSkipPatterns(List)}
 	 */
+	@Deprecated
 	public void setTldSkip(String tldSkip) {
 		Assert.notNull(tldSkip, "TldSkip must not be null");
-		this.tldSkip = tldSkip;
+		setTldSkipPatterns(Arrays.asList(
+				StringUtils.commaDelimitedListToStringArray(tldSkip)));
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Set the patterns that match jars to ignore for TLD scanning. See Tomcat's
+	 * catalina.properties for typical values. Defaults to a list drawn from that source.
+	 * @param patterns the jar patterns to skip when scanning for TLDs etc
+	 */
+	public void setTldSkipPatterns(List<String> patterns) {
+		Assert.notNull(patterns, "patterns must not be null");
+		this.tldSkipPatterns = new LinkedHashSet<String>(patterns);
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Returns a mutable set of the patterns that match jars to ignore for TLD scanning.
+	 * @return the list of jars to ignore for TLD scanning
+	 */
+	public Set<String> getTldSkipPatterns() {
+		return this.tldSkipPatterns;
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Add patterns that match jars to ignore for TLD scanning. See Tomcat's
+	 * catalina.properties for typical values.
+	 * @param patterns the additional jar patterns to skip when scanning for TLDs etc
+	 */
+	public void addAdditionalTldSkipPatterns(String... patterns) {
+		Assert.notNull(patterns, "patterns must not be null");
+		this.tldSkipPatterns.addAll(Arrays.asList(patterns));
 	}
 
 	/**