>> There is no meaning in saying that one can plug in required >>services to Tomcat. My question is by design is it an application >>server ?. My opinion is that Tomcat in the shipped form is not an >>application server. At the minimum it should provide transaction and >>persistence services, method level security is also preferred. >> One can add all the above mentioned features to any servlet engine >>by deploying JAR files of the required services(JNDI,JTA,persistence >>and even EJB). So any servlet engine becomes an application server. Am >>I right ? > > > I think you are getting your terms mixed up... 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 application server as all parts of the spec are implemented, Tomcat is not as only parts are covered. Cheers, Michael --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
