This is from the online doc. Tomcat 5 implements the Servlet 2.4 and JavaServer Pages 2.0 specifications from the Java Community Process, and includes many additional features that make it a useful platform for developing and deploying web applications and web services.
The generalized idea is: CLIENT | | http request/response (maybe this request is to an application) | APACHE web server (with mod_proxy enabled) receive the request. if the request is a request to an application within tomcat apache send the request to tomcat (the container of web applications) | | request is forwarded to the container | TOMCAT | | request is forwarded (again) to the appropriated application. | APPLICATION | | query to a db store | DB STORE Jorge DÃvila. El miÃ, 27-04-2005 a las 16:04 -0400, Chawke, Nitin (Corporate, consultant) escribiÃ: > Hi All, > I have a very basic question here. > > "What is tomcat ? Is it a Web Server or an App Server" > My understanding was its a Web Server with a Web Container. > > But recently I have come accross a lot of discussions saying that is an > Application server? > I tried to find out in the documentations, but nowhere it is clearly > mentioned. > > Please advise. > > Thanks, > Nitin > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
