Thanks to everyone who replied. One big relieve is that you all agree! I'll get JBoss and try that out.
Regards, Michael On December 15, 2001 01:29 pm, you wrote: > On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, Michael Davis wrote: > > Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 11:48:23 -0500 > > From: Michael Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Reply-To: Tomcat Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: Tomcat Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: Is Tomcat considered to be a J2EE implementation? > > > > Thanks, > > > > I've been using JServ to create servlets for a while, and I thought that > > the difference between simply using servlets and J2EE was that the latter > > has an EJB container. > > J2EE has a large number of technologies beyond the servlet and JSP support > present in Tomcat, plus requirements on the container for configuring > resources such as JDBC data sources. > > Tomcat 4 is a complete implementation of the servlet 2.3 and JSP 1.2 > requirements, and supports a small subset of resource factories that are > upwardly compatible with J2EE programming standards, but it does NOT > contain any support for the extra technologies such as EJB. > > > If this is true, then does Tomcat come with an EJB container? > > Or maybe a better question is, can you program EJBs with Tomcat? > > You will need an EJB container in order to program EJBs. Two approaches > for you to look at: > > * Get the J2EE 1.3 Reference Implementation from Sun > <http://java.sun.com/j2ee>. It embeds Tomcat 4 inside to provide > the servlet and JSP technologies, and also supports all the rest. > > * Get an external EJB server that can integrate with Tomcat, > such as JBoss <http://www.jboss.org>. It connects with Tomcat > to provide the web layer, and itself provides EJB support. > > > Thanks again, > > Michael > > Craig McClanahan -- Michael Davis Damaru Custom Programming - Web Development - Database Design http://www.damaru.com 416-540-1284 -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
