Tomcat Not An App Server

[Mike Wannamaker <Mi...@KINGSTON.Hummingbird.com>]

I know that Tomcat is not really an App Server like JBoss etc... However, if
I had a component that was not a web application and I wanted to start it
inside tomcat how could I do that ?

Is there some configuration file I would need to add something to in order
to have a component started and would I need to implement some Tomcat
interface to do it?

TIA
Mike Wannamaker


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Re: Tomcat Not An App Server

[David Smith <dn...@cornell.edu>]

Tomcat's not really an app server?  Geee really, I feel so inadequate 
now. :-(

Seriously, I think I've seen this religious war around here somewhere 
and it really depends on definition.  No, it's not a full J2EE 
container, but it's definitely an app server in my opinion.

Have you read the servlet spec and thought about the 
ServletContextListener for handling the start/shutdown of a component 
within your app?

--David

Mike Wannamaker wrote:

>I know that Tomcat is not really an App Server like JBoss etc... However, if
>I had a component that was not a web application and I wanted to start it
>inside tomcat how could I do that ?
>
>Is there some configuration file I would need to add something to in order
>to have a component started and would I need to implement some Tomcat
>interface to do it?
>
>TIA
>Mike Wannamaker
>
>
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Re: Tomcat Not An App Server

[Christopher Schultz <ch...@christopherschultz.net>]

Mike,

> I know that Tomcat is not really an App Server like JBoss etc... 

Some may argue with me, but I would consider Tomcat an app server. JBoss
happens to be an EJB container as well as a servlet container (and
provides some other services as well), while Tomcat provides only the
servlet container and some directory services.

> However, if I had a component that was not a web application and I
> wanted to start it inside tomcat how could I do that ?

> Is there some configuration file I would need to add something to in 
> order to have a component started and would I need to implement some
> Tomcat interface to do it?

What do you want to run inside of Tomcat that is not a web application?
Tomcat is basically a web application container, so I'm not sure what
else you'd want to run.

-chris