What is the difference in Apache Tomcat and Jboss

arindham Oct 8, 2003 11:32 AM

Hi all,

I m new to this J2ee Framework, and i want to know that , is Apache Tomcat is a web server or it include both web server as well as application server. And how Jboss is comunicating to Apache Web Server.

1. Re: What is the difference in Apache Tomcat and Jboss

juha Oct 8, 2003 3:18 PM (in response to arindham)

Tomcat is a servlet container and JBoss is a J2EE server embedding Tomcat to act as its servlet container.

Apache to Tomcat communication (including embedded Tomcat) goes through AJP13 connector.

-- Juha
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2. Re: What is the difference in Apache Tomcat and Jboss

arindham Oct 9, 2003 11:16 AM (in response to arindham)

Hi Juha,

thanx for the brief explaintion. now can u elaboratly explain how Jboss internally use Tomcat, and how it different from Apache using Tomcat.

thanx in advance
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3. Re: What is the difference in Apache Tomcat and Jboss

darranl Oct 31, 2003 7:31 AM (in response to arindham)

Tomcat is a servlet container It is used to host web applications (JSP pages and servlets)

JBoss is a J2EE server It is used to host J2EE applications that can consist of Session Beans, Entity Beans, Message Driven Beans, JMX Services, Resource Adapters etc..

So that JBoss can host web applications (as required by the J2EE spec) Tomcat is embeded instead of writing a new servlet container.
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