raja buddha <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribbled on Saturday, May 21, 2005 3:07 PM: > Hi all. > I am new to appache. I wanted to know where tomcat is webserver or > appserver Raju
Just to be clear, the Apache HTTP Web server (http://httpd.apache.org) is different than the Tomcat Java web application server (http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat). Tomcat started as primarily a Java application server with basic HTTP server support. Today it offers pretty complete and sophisticated web server support - although not as complete as the standard Apache web server. As an application server, Tomcat does not support ALL of the J2EE spec, just the parts necessary for what are often called "web applications" - those primarily using servlet and JSP technologies with underlying database access. For example, you cannot deploy Enterprise Java Beans (Session beans or Entity beans) on Tomcat - but, IMHO, these are only needed for the largest and more sophisticated enterprise applications. The vast majority of web applications and web sites can run on Tomcat. If you really need EJB support you can look at Jboss, WebSphere, BEA or one of the other J2EE application servers. BTW, JBoss embeds a copy of Tomcat as its JSP/Servlet engine. Also, as a standard web (HTTP) server, Tomcat has basic support for CGI and some level of support for PHP (seach the archive for this list). Tomcat does not support the myriad of plugins, extension and "modules" that Apache or some of the other web servers do. Still most sites can easily be supported by Tomcat and the newer versions are very, very close in terms of performance for serving straight HTML pages. HTH - Richard --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
