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Is Tomcat an app server.

 
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Is Tomcat an application server/ web server/web container.

Why do we use Apache as web server with tomcat in a live environment.
 
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Is Tomcat an application server/ web server/web container.


That depends upon your definition of "app server".
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Why do we use Apache as web server with tomcat in a live environment.



I don't know. Why do you? Is it a guessing game?

I don't.
 
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Tomcat is not an appserver but a webserver. An appserver should support a lot of other j2ee specifications and should host EJBS, JMS etc..
 
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Originally posted by Kamesh Rao:
Tomcat is not an appserver but a webserver. An appserver should support a lot of other j2ee specifications and should host EJBS, JMS etc..



That's one definition. But there are many would say that Tomcat is an app server as it supports servlets and JSP.

The term "app server" is too nebulous for there to be a definitive answer to the question.
 
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I feel supporting servlets and jsps does not make a server Application server.
 
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As Bear said, there are many definitions of what an app server is. If an application consists entirely of servlets, JSPs, and their associated classes, then it can be hosted by Tomcat, and that would make Tomcat an app server.
 
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so you mean there is no difference in an application server and a web server responsibilities.
 
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No, we mean that the term "app server" has no standard definition and so there is no real answer to the question.
 
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Application server=Web Container(webserver)+EJB container

Tomcat has only web container.so it is a web server
 
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Originally posted by Bear Bibeault:
No, we mean that the term "app server" has no standard definition and so there is no real answer to the question.



Having no standard definition for an appserver doesnot mean that we can call a webserver an appserver.
 
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Tomcat has only web container. so it is a web server


Tomcat includes a servlet container, so it is definitely more than a web server.
 
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Hi
tomcat is a web server with web component(jsp/servlet) support.


milan.
 
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"milan",

There aren't many rules that you need to worry about here on the Ranch, but one that we take very seriously regards the use of proper names. Please take a look at the JavaRanch Naming Policy and adjust your display name to match it.

In particular, your display name must be a first and a last name separated by a space character, and must not be obviously fictitious.

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tomcat is a webserver.

an applicaitons server should also host enterprise java beans..

examples for application server are bea's weblogic

IBM's websphere .
 
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Generally, application servers, like IBM WebSphere AS, Oracle AS, Sun AS, BEA WebLogic AS, JBOSS AS are officially certified for implementing a particular version of the J2EE specification. Tomcat only implements a very small subset that includes JSP+Servlets mainly so it doesn't really get much of a label as "application server" which provides much more enterprise services.
 
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