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Is it a web server or application server.
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its a web server and a jsp/servlet container
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>> Is it a web server or application server.
Technically neither.
A Web Server returns content in response to an HTTP request from a client such as a browser. It does not parse any java classes such as servlets or jsps. A good example is the Apache HTTP web server (commonly known as Apache)
An Application Server is capable of running fully fledged J2EE applications which may include flat files such as images and HTML (normally via a Web Server), JSPs, Servlets, Web Services, Enterprise Java Beans (EJB), JMS and others. Examples of this would be Websphere, Weblogic, JBoss or Geronimo.
Tomcat is a JSP/Servlet container. This means that it can serve flat files but also JSP and servlets. It differs from just being a web server by its ability to run JSPs and Servlets but it is not an Appliaction Server as it cannot run full J2EE applications that use things such as EJBs or JMS by itself
Technically neither.
A Web Server returns content in response to an HTTP request from a client such as a browser. It does not parse any java classes such as servlets or jsps. A good example is the Apache HTTP web server (commonly known as Apache)
An Application Server is capable of running fully fledged J2EE applications which may include flat files such as images and HTML (normally via a Web Server), JSPs, Servlets, Web Services, Enterprise Java Beans (EJB), JMS and others. Examples of this would be Websphere, Weblogic, JBoss or Geronimo.
Tomcat is a JSP/Servlet container. This means that it can serve flat files but also JSP and servlets. It differs from just being a web server by its ability to run JSPs and Servlets but it is not an Appliaction Server as it cannot run full J2EE applications that use things such as EJBs or JMS by itself
If you are being pushed to choose between the 2 options than you should say that tomcat is a web server as it's closer to being a webserver than an application server, but with the differences noted above.
Tomcat is a servlet container.
An application server involves both a servlet container ans an EJB container.
So tomcat is NOT an application server.
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An application server involves both a servlet container ans an EJB container.
So tomcat is NOT an application server.
hope this helps.
Also it can serve the static HTML, so it is a web server.