>Is this a loaded political questions? {:-0}
It's really an obvious newbie question that isn't being directly
answered in the regular documentation. Though, I suppose that Tomcat is
the "official" reference implies a relationship with Sun. Perhaps
enough time has passed that the Tomcat User Guide could be updated to
say something like:
Isn't Tomcat just JServ?
This is a common misunderstanding. JServ is a Servlet API
2.0-compliant container that was created to be used with
Apache. Tomcat is a complete re-write and is a Servlet API 2.2 and
JSP 1.1-compliant container. Tomcat uses
some of the code written for JServ, especially JServ's Apache
server adapter, but this is where the similarities end.
** Tomcat is being developed within the Apache Jakarta initiative,
which has partnered with Sun to make Tomcat the official reference
implementation of Java Servlet 2.2 and JavaServer Pages 1.1
technologies. JServ is maintained within the Apache Java initiative, a
seperate and independant project. **
-Ted.
