It helps to think of the relationship in a sort of "box-inside-a-box" relationship.
For example, the Server(Tomcat) contains the Service. The Service contains the Engine(eg. Catalina). The Engine contains the hosts (eg www.somedomain.com) Within the different hosts is the Context. Each context is associated with one web application. A web application is made up of any number of servlets, jsp pages, or other resources. The box-inside-a-box analogy breaks down a little with respect to the Connector components. The purpose of Connectors is to provide an way to connect to your web app utilizing different ports (port 80 for regular http access, port 443 for ssl and so forth) Hope this helps. On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 13:41 +0530, niteHawk wrote: > Hi Everybody, > I was using Tomcat from a long time, but recently > started getting more interested in it. Can someone explain me Tomcat > Architecture in layman terms / point me to a better website. I didnt > understand the documentation at > http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.0-doc/architecture/ > > Thanking You. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
