With Tomcat you have your container that you can run your java servlets and JSP's.
With Jboss, you have tomcat (or Jetty) as your container to run your java servlets and JSP's. In addition, you have an EJB container to run EJB applications (i.e. entity bean and session beans), and have access to JNDI for appserver configuration of commonly used services. Perfect example is you configure the APP SERVER (and not the applications) for your authorization/authentication environment and configure the APP SERVER (again, not all the applications that you build) to point to the databases that you want to work with. So, the APP SERVER does all the backend work, such as configuration, configuration changes, connection pooling, blah blah blah. And, of course, JBoss is an App Server that does all that and is well respected (not to mention open source!). my two coppers, -D -----Original Message----- From: Wiebe de Jong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 10:54 AM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: JBoss Tomcat and JBoss work well together. In simple terms, think of Tomcat as your servlet container and JBoss as your EJB container. Wiebe http://frontierj.blogspot.com <http://frontierj.blogspot.com/> -----Original Message----- From: Horky Adam G A1C 805 CSPTS/SCBE [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 7:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: JBoss I noticed some of the developers on this mailing list advocating the use of JBoss. I am currently reading some docs on JBoss, but I don't have a clear understanding of it yet. I currently use Tomcat as my app server. Does it run over Tomcat? Can anyone recommend some good documentation on what exactly JBoss is? A1C Adam G Horky Application Development Programmer, SCBE (618)256-2300 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
