And it needs to support J2EE also. -----Original Message----- From: Werner van Mook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 6:04 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: is tomcat..... ?
On Wednesday, May 28, 2003, at 10:56 PM, Syed Nayyer Kamran wrote: > Hi there, > > I want to confirm that can we say that tomcat is an application server > if not then what is the basic requirement being an application server. > what should a server provide tobe an application server. > To be an application server one should have at least support for running ejb's. And with that, a lot of other things ( see ejb specs). Tomcat supports only Servlets/jsp's and is a so called servlet container. If you use a name like web application server you could raise the expectation to high and people might think it is a application server which it is not. That's my 2ct anyway. Werner --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
