Apache Tomcat 6.0.16 a web server/ App server

Hi,

I want to develope persistent entity beans using EJB 3.0
Iam new to tomcat.
Can i use Apache Tomcat 6.0.16 to develop stateful session beans and entity beans ?
does tomcat support annotations and ejb 3?

I also want to know if Apache Tomcat 6.0.16 supports the functionalities provided by app servers like Weblogic , Websphere etc.?

Hi Anuradha,

Tomcat alone is only Servlet container. It needs EJB container, but there is possibility to install embedded JBoss into Tomcat. Please refer to seam documentation

http://docs.jboss.com/seam/latest/reference/en-US/html/configuration.html#config.install.embedded

Hi,

Another option is to use OpenEJB inside Tomcat.
Is there a good reason you want to use only Tomcat? If you're looking for free JavaEE app servers, there're many - JBoss, Sun Glassfish, Apache Geronimo,...

In one of the interviews i was asked,

"Give an example of using Apache Tomcat and Jboss in a Java application. What are the purposes of each of them?"

I was not able to answer it properly.
Can anyone please provide an answer or insight into this question?

Anuradha Prasanna wrote:In one of the interviews i was asked,
"Give an example of using Apache Tomcat and Jboss in a Java application. What are the purposes of each of them?"
I was not able to answer it properly. Can anyone please provide an answer or insight into this question?

I didn't get the question, it is phrased badly. Anyway, what was your answer?

I answered,

tomcat wil be acting as web server for the web tier,
and jboss as app server for ejb tier.

is that correct?

But i think, since jboss supports servlets and ejbs, why use tomcat? It sounded to me like a invalid question.
or is there any specific use for using tomcat and jboss together?

JBoss embeds a copy of Tomcat within itself to handle servlets and JSPs. You don't have to install a separate Tomcat - it comes as part of JBoss.

It used to be that JBoss had 2 choices of servlet/JSP engine: Tomcat and jetty, but I talked to one of the JBoss people several months ago and he said jetty support has been dropped for the newer versions of JBoss.