Re: Is Tomcat is an application server ?

2005-06-22 Thread Michael Echerer
... Your arguments could be used in regards to a full J2EE container, which Tomcat isn't on it's own but an application server just needs to serve applications and Tomcat certainly does that. Agree. Tomcat is an application server, e.g. JBoss aswell, but JBoss is a J2EE 1.x compliant

RE: Is Tomcat is an application server ?

2005-06-22 Thread Werner van Mook (RY/ETM)
IMHO : Tomcat is a web application server, not an application server. It is true you can extend tomcat and make it work like an application server. Tomcat and just Tomcat is no application server. It's like saying that an engine is a car. Which is not true! You can extend this engine and build

Re: Is Tomcat is an application server ?

2005-06-22 Thread Christoph Kutzinski
There only relevant question here is: How is a application server defined? As Richard Mixon already pointed out, there are many definitions under which Tomcat IS an application server. For many others however application server is equivalent to full J2EE application server (or something like

Re: Is Tomcat is an application server ?

2005-06-22 Thread David Johnson
is an application server, e.g. JBoss aswell, but JBoss is a J2EE 1.x compliant application server as all parts of the spec are implemented, Tomcat is not as only parts are covered. JBoss as shipped, is installed as a set of services inside (specifically) the Tomcat application server. You have made our

Is Tomcat is an application server ?

2005-06-21 Thread Anto Paul
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

RE: Is Tomcat is an application server ?

2005-06-21 Thread Richard Mixon (qwest)
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

Re: Is Tomcat is an application server ?

2005-06-21 Thread Anto Paul
On 6/21/05, Richard Mixon (qwest) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

RE: Is Tomcat is an application server ?

2005-06-21 Thread Richard Mixon (qwest)
Java applications. Have a good day - Richard -Original Message- From: Anto Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 12:09 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Is Tomcat is an application server ? On 6/21/05, Richard Mixon (qwest) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think

RE: Is Tomcat is an application server ?

2005-06-21 Thread David Johnson
To expand a bit on Richard's note ... On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 00:32 -0700, Richard Mixon (qwest) wrote: - Remoting implies distributing your objects across the network - a nice feature, but not often needed. Its talked about a lot - but for most applications its just not needed. J2EE is a

Re: Is Tomcat is an application server ?

2005-06-21 Thread Anto Paul
On 6/21/05, David Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To expand a bit on Richard's note ... On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 00:32 -0700, Richard Mixon (qwest) wrote: - Remoting implies distributing your objects across the network - a nice feature, but not often needed. Its talked about a lot - but for

Re: Is Tomcat is an application server ?

2005-06-21 Thread Jason Bainbridge
On 6/21/05, Anto Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/21/05, David Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To expand a bit on Richard's note ... On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 00:32 -0700, Richard Mixon (qwest) wrote: - Remoting implies distributing your objects across the network - a nice feature,

Using Tomcat as an application server

2004-02-17 Thread Wilson, Allen
Title: Message Good Afternoon... I am trying to set Tomcat up as an application server so that it can be ran in conjunction with Apache (looked at the Wrox's Professional Tomcat book who mentions that is how to run the server with Apache). I have been unable to find the proper