I would speculate that the Tomcat name is, as in, F-14 Tomcat... At a recent Sun Developer Days I attended, one of the presenters who was pumping the Sun ONE application framework talked about the framework's history. Until the re-branding of the framework to Sun ONE blah blah blah, the framework was known as JATO--which stands for Java Assisted Take Off. That originated from the engineers who were enamored by the JATO acronym--which stands for Jet Assisted Take Off in USAF (and perhaps civilian airline) lingo. The engineers felt that using the JATO framework would propel (pun) your project far ahead of your competitors.
I wouldn't be surprised if the name Tomcat was similarly conceived from F-14 Tomcat. This is mere speculation; only the original Tomcat authors know for sure. :-) -----Original Message----- From: Craig R. McClanahan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 16:56 To: Tomcat Users List Subject: RE: [BULK] - Re: what is catalina?.. On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Sankaranarayanan (Ganesh) Ganapathy wrote: > Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 10:50:20 -0800 > From: "Sankaranarayanan (Ganesh) Ganapathy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Tomcat Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Tomcat Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: [BULK] - Re: what is catalina?.. > > While on this topic - how did the name Tomcat come about? I'm afraid that one was before my time as well -- "tomcat" was Sun's internal code name for the servlet/JSP container before it was contributed to Apache, and I don't know what the history of the name was. > > Thanx > Ganesh Craig --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
