Type of server

["Chawke, Nitin (Corporate, consultant)" <ni...@ge.com>]

Hi All,
I have a very basic question here.

"What is tomcat ? Is it a Web Server or an App Server"
My understanding was its a Web Server with a Web Container.

But recently I have come accross a lot of discussions saying that is an Application server?
I tried to find out in the documentations, but nowhere it is clearly mentioned.

Please advise.

Thanks,
Nitin


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Re: Type of server

[Jorge Davila <is...@nicaraguarealestate.com>]

This is from the online doc.

Tomcat 5 implements the Servlet 2.4 and JavaServer Pages 2.0
specifications from the Java Community Process, and includes many
additional features that make it a useful platform for developing and
deploying web applications and web services.

The generalized idea is:

CLIENT
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| http request/response (maybe this request is to an application)
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APACHE web server (with mod_proxy enabled)
receive the request. if the request is a request to an application
within tomcat apache send the request to tomcat (the container of web
applications) 
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| request is forwarded to the container
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TOMCAT
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| request is forwarded (again) to the appropriated application.
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APPLICATION
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| query to a db store
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DB STORE


Jorge Dávila.

El mié, 27-04-2005 a las 16:04 -0400, Chawke, Nitin (Corporate,
consultant) escribió:
> Hi All,
> I have a very basic question here.
> 
> "What is tomcat ? Is it a Web Server or an App Server"
> My understanding was its a Web Server with a Web Container.
> 
> But recently I have come accross a lot of discussions saying that is an Application server?
> I tried to find out in the documentations, but nowhere it is clearly mentioned.
> 
> Please advise.
> 
> Thanks,
> Nitin
> 
> 
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