why tomcat

[Huaxin <hx...@cs.ualberta.ca>]

Maybe I am confusing, but I don't know if I still need
TOm-cat or even J2EE if I have BEA-Weblogic.

It seems to me BEA-Weblogic can do the job at least for
Tomcat....

Thanks a lot!

Re: why tomcat

[Pete and/or Dale <pe...@telus.net>]

J2EE is a specification, not an actual product. Tomcat is the 
implementation of part of that spec (Servlet/JSP) whereas the  BEA 
 WebLogic server is an  implementation of the full (ish) specification. 
 Quick answer: you do not need tomcat or the J2EE reference 
implementation if you have WebLogic (although many on this list would 
probably argue that you should dump the BEA stuff instead....)

cheers.

pete.

Huaxin wrote:

>Maybe I am confusing, but I don't know if I still need
>TOm-cat or even J2EE if I have BEA-Weblogic.
>
>It seems to me BEA-Weblogic can do the job at least for
>Tomcat....
>
>Thanks a lot!
>
>
>

RE: why tomcat

[Peter Romianowski <pe...@antaramusic.de>]

you're right, if you have BEA-Weblogic you don't need tomcat.
weblogic is a high end (and thus very expensive) J2EE-Applicationserver
with built-in (and powerful) servlet engine. the single reason I could image
using tomcat in addition would be the need for servlet 2.3 features for
tomcat 4 will be the reference (and thus first?) implementation of the
2.3 servlet api...

cheers,
pero

-----Original Message-----
From: Huaxin [mailto:hxzhang@cs.ualberta.ca]
Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 8:40 PM
To: 'tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org'
Subject: why tomcat


Maybe I am confusing, but I don't know if I still need
TOm-cat or even J2EE if I have BEA-Weblogic.

It seems to me BEA-Weblogic can do the job at least for
Tomcat....

Thanks a lot!

RE: why tomcat

[Tony Vinayak <tv...@covalent.net>]

You're right; BEA can do what Tomcat does, and more (EJBs).

Having said that, if hosting servlets/JSPs is all you want to do, then
Tomcat is a perfect (and lot less expensive!) solution, rather than having
to buy a WebLogic license. If EJBs is your cup of tea, then you want to go
the BEA route.

regards,
Tony

-----Original Message-----
From: Huaxin [mailto:hxzhang@cs.ualberta.ca]
Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 2:40 PM
To: 'tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org'
Subject: why tomcat


Maybe I am confusing, but I don't know if I still need
TOm-cat or even J2EE if I have BEA-Weblogic.

It seems to me BEA-Weblogic can do the job at least for
Tomcat....

Thanks a lot!