Daniel Lynn wrote:
> OK, I have a few answers for you...
>
> > 1. What is Tomcat and Apache?
>
> Apache is a openly distributed webserver. Tomcat is an extension that works with a
> large number of webvservers that enables your webserver to use JSP files. I
> unfortunately can't tell you specifics, but we used to use Tomcat and our security
> tech threw a fit. Said it has a lot of security holes and problems and ust isn't up
> to production standards yet. We're now using Resin, which seems to run infinitely
> fasted and more smoothly anyway. Java has a list of servers and extensions that
> support JSP up on their site.
>
> > 2. Is Tomcat a Webserver?
>
> I may be wrong, but I believe Tomcat only runs as an add-on.
>
That was true of Apache JServ, but not of Tomcat ... you can also run Tomcat as
a
stand-alone web server, albeit with somewhat limited capabilities and
performance
versus something like Apache. Tomcat's primary purpose is to execute servlets
and JSP
pages, but it will serve static HTML files and images just fine.
>
> Hope it was helpful.
>
> -Daniel
>
Craig McClanahan
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