Tomcat was born in response to the need for an independant servlet specification implementation. James wrote it hoping that it would eventually be open sourced. He figured that since most open source projects had O'reilly books about them that he should name it after an animal. Essentially he was thinking of an animal that would go on the cover of an O'reilly book. He came up with "Tomcat" since the animal represented something that could take care of itself and fend for itself. That's how he came up with the name.
I asked him about the jet fighter. James said that though the F-14 is his favorite fighter, the name is just a coincidence.
Justyna
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Sean Dockery wrote:
I would speculate that the Tomcat name is, as in, F-14 Tomcat...
At a recent Sun Developer Days I attended, one of the presenters who was
pumping the Sun ONE application framework talked about the framework's
history. Until the re-branding of the framework to Sun ONE blah blah blah,
the framework was known as JATO--which stands for Java Assisted Take Off.
That originated from the engineers who were enamored by the JATO
acronym--which stands for Jet Assisted Take Off in USAF (and perhaps
civilian airline) lingo. The engineers felt that using the JATO framework
would propel (pun) your project far ahead of your competitors.
I wouldn't be surprised if the name Tomcat was similarly conceived from F-14
Tomcat.
This is mere speculation; only the original Tomcat authors know for sure.
:-)
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On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Sankaranarayanan (Ganesh) Ganapathy wrote:
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 10:50:20 -0800I'm afraid that one was before my time as well -- "tomcat" was Sun's
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While on this topic - how did the name Tomcat come about?
internal code name for the servlet/JSP container before it was contributed
to Apache, and I don't know what the history of the name was.
ThanxCraig
Ganesh
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