Originally posted by Mikey Warren:
and an application server like, say Tomcat, (and not a J2EE server like Websphere) is not a J2EE application?
Mikey,
Tomcat is not exactly an Application Server. Tomcat is a container for JSP and servlets.
An application server, in the common terminology, is much more than that. An application server contains servlet , jsp containers apart from EJB containers, small scale JNDI services and the list goes on.
Also an application server takes care of things like transactions, security issues, resource pooling and stuff like that
Some examples of Application servers are
IBM Websphere, BEA Weblogic,
JBoss, Orion, Resin....and the list goes on
Hope this helps
Sri