Re: Tomcat-- Web Server or Web Container?

2008-12-10 Thread Leon Rosenberg
tomcat is a web server for it serves http requests. tomcat is a servlet container according to the servlet spec. there is no such thing as web container. regards Leon On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Thangavel Sankaranarayanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I have a doubt which is breaking my

RE: Tomcat-- Web Server or Web Container?

2008-12-10 Thread Ilya Kazakevich
Hi, Web-server is a tool, which handles HTTP requests. Apache is web-server. Microsoft IIS is web-server. Thttpd is web-server too. Servlet-container (according to specification of servlets) is something, that runs servlets in special environment. Web-server may work with CGI or static pages