> From: Jamie Krasnoo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Help me understand Tomcat configuration > > I've looked through the documentation but I can't seem > to get Containers. Why its called a container and its > relation to the server and how it runs.
Practically speaking, the server is the container. The terminology comes from the Servlet spec, which you should become familiar with. Download it from Sun: http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/mrel/jsr154/index.html Note that the Tomcat doc intentionally does not duplicate the information in the Servlet spec. > How it differs from Apache. Apache is a software development organization, and Tomcat is one of its many products. Perhaps you meant httpd, which is Apache's non-Java, non-Servlet/JSP web server, and the first widely used Apache product. Tomcat works fine stand-alone and does support multiple virtual hosts; you only really need to front end it with httpd if you're doing something esoteric like load balancing across multiple Tomcat installations or utilizing something Tomcat doesn't readily handle such as PHP. - Chuck THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail and its attachments from all computers. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
