Tomcat is web server or application server

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Is Tomcat a web server or an application server

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Tomcat is an application container that is also a web server  An application container can run web-applications  have  application  scope   It is not considered Some people do not consider it a full application server as it is lacking in some aspects such as user management and the like  but getting better all the time

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Tomcat is a web server and a Servlet JavaServer Pages container   It is often used as an application server for strictly web-based applications but does not include the entire suite of capabilities that a Java EE application server would supply   Links    Apache Tomcat home page Explanation of Servlet technology Explanation of JavaServer Pages technology

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Tomcat is a web server  can handle HTTP requests responses  and web container  implements Java Servlet API  also called servletcontainer  in one  Some may call it an application server  but it is definitely not an fullfledged Java EE application server  it does not implement the whole Java EE API   See also   What exactly is Java EE  How do servlets work  Instantiation  sessions  shared variables and multithreading

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It runs Java compiled code  it can maintain database connection pools  it can log errors of various types   I d call it an application server  in fact I do   In our environment we have Apache as the webserver fronting a number of different application servers  including Tomcat and Coldfusion  and others

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Apache Tomcat is an open source   software implementation of the Java   Servlet and JavaServer Pages   technologies    Since Tomcat does not implement the full Java EE specification for an application server  it can be considered as a web server   Source  http   tomcat apache org

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Application Server   Application server maintains the application logic and serves the web pages in response to user request   That means application server can do both application logic  maintanence and web page serving   Web Server   Web server just serves the web pages and it cannot enforce  any application logic    Final conclusion is  Application server also contains the  web server   For further Reference    http   www javaworld com javaqa 2002-08 01-qa-0823-appvswebserver html

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