I think for most practical purposes Tomcat is an application server. What Tomcat does not have is a builtin Enterprise Java Beans container - however Tomcat supports many other parts of the J2EE spec.
Simply by the numbers, the vast majority of Java web applications do not use EJBs - so Tomcat is just fine for most users. EJBs are not necessary at all for building sophisticated and complex web applications. Tomcat offers load balancing and clustering - which used to be only offered by commercial application servers. That said, there are some advantages to EJBs that can make the additional complexity worth it. For some enterprise situations, you may want an application server that is fully compliant with the J2EE spec, such as Jboss, WebSphere, BEA or one of the other commercial packages. HTH - Richard -----Original Message----- From: Anto Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 11:02 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Is Tomcat is an application server ? Hi all, Many might have asked this question but I need a more elaborate answer. Today I attended an interview and the interviewer insists that Tomcat versions above 4.x is an application server. Is that true ?. What are the points to support the argument ?. -- rgds Anto Paul --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
