Professional Apache Tomcat 6 - support for EJBs

Heard that Tomcat does have some support for Component Development and to certain extent. Is that true?

If so, how about Tomcat 6? does it support fullfledged components?

Tomcat was and is a servlet container and web server. As such it does not support EJB (although you can plug OpenEJB into it).

Thank you Ulf. That's what i am aware of. But Tomcat does not have any inbuilt support. Isn't it?

Tomcat is essentially just a web container. With that said, there are 3rd party components you can add to extend it. For example you can add Apache OpenEJB to allow it to use EJBs.

If you are looking for a richer experience with Tomcat and want to bolt on a few other components, like EJB, JMS, etc, I suggest you have a look at Apache Geronimo which allows you to build your own stack.

Originally posted by Jeff Genender:
Tomcat is essentially just a web container. With that said, there are 3rd party components you can add to extend it. For example you can add Apache OpenEJB to allow it to use EJBs.

If you are looking for a richer experience with Tomcat and want to bolt on a few other components, like EJB, JMS, etc, I suggest you have a look at Apache Geronimo which allows you to build your own stack.

Thank you Jeff.

Actually Tomcat 6 includes the annotations-api.jar which has the annotation support for EJBs - however it's currently out of spec but a bug report /fix has already been filed against it.

-Dario

Thank you for the information, Dario Laverde.