getServerInfo() returning Apache Tomcat/5.0.28 for JBOSS4.0.0 version, why is it returning Apache?

[Anjali Raman]

Hi All,
I have installed JBoss 4.0.0 version and was trying out some simple servlet programs using JBoss for the first time.
I have been more familiar to Tomcat and so JBoss is kind of new to me.
When I wrote a simple Servlet program for displaying the output of getServerInfo() I got "Apache Tomcat/5.0.28" when I was actually expecting "JBoss 4.0.0"
Could someone please let me know why there is a connection between Apache and JBoss?
I was using the program example in LearnNowJava, ofourse the instructor used JBoss 5.x version she was getting Jboss as output and I was expecting something similar.

I have attached the code below as well.

package simple.servlet;

import java.io.IOException;
import javax.servlet.ServletConfig;
import javax.servlet.ServletContext;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;

/**
 * Servlet implementation class DemoServletContext
 */
public class DemoServletContext extends HttpServlet {
	private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
	private ServletContext ctx;
       
    /**
     * @see HttpServlet#HttpServlet()
     */
    public DemoServletContext() {
        super();
        // TODO Auto-generated constructor stub
    }

	/**
	 * @see Servlet#init(ServletConfig)
	 */
	public void init(ServletConfig config) throws ServletException {
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub
		ctx = config.getServletContext();
		System.out.println("In Init(): " + ctx.getServletContextName());
		
	}

	/**
	 * @see HttpServlet#doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
	 */
	protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub
		System.out.println("In doGet(): " + ctx.getServerInfo());
	}

}

[Peter Johnson]

JBoss AS 4.0.0? That is ancient! Or is that a typo?

JBoss AS uses Tomcat (or a variation of Tomcat) as its web server, so the response you are getting identifies the web server.

[Anjali Raman]

I agree that I am using quite an old version of JBOSS, but was puzzled as to why it was pointing to Apache.