>What is the difference between the web server apache and
>jswdk or tomcat.
Apache is a Web Server.
It can run server side stuff with extensions (perl, PHP...)
Among these extensions, Apache can receive an extension to
run Servlets (Java Classes of a specific kind).
In oder to run servlets, Apache (like any other Web server)
need to receive an extension.
They are several extensions (by the way to look like a cool
guy don't say "extension for servlets" say
"servlet runner"
third part ones
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- Jrun (commercial, good stuff from allaire
- Servlet Exec formerly New Atlanta and now owned by Unify
- Resin
....
The official ones
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First version JSDWK from SUN (still available on
SUN site), then SUN realized that Apache guys are pretty
good and pretty involved (they developped in the meantime
Jserv that is today one of the most stable implementations
(although out dated)
So after a lot of internal lobbying, SUN decided to opensource
the devleoppement of the Servlet API and then crated
with Apache guys the Jakarta Project.
So for a short answer :
Apache : Web server (a geek would have said an http daemon)
JSWDK : first version of the Servlet API
Tomcat : current version of the servlet API (contains a
servlet runner and a standalone Web server)
Jserv : replaced by tomcat the previous natural servelt
runner for Apache (Jserv although out dated is more stable
that Tomcat is right now)
>Is it possible to run jswdk or tomcat with cobalt(raq3)
>or does the cobalt already accept files: *.jsp
acceptance of *.jsp is not a problem of server its a problem
of Web server and more exactly web server Servlet extension
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