Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: markspace <-@.> Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Tomcat problem Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2012 20:03:23 -0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <50bcbd04$0$295$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <50beaf7a$0$288$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2012 04:03:25 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="61282af8d6595e8d991edb5ac03d6e00"; logging-data="11778"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+4peb5WacWojoOmDy0R7owltLC3d6w+jE=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 In-Reply-To: <50beaf7a$0$288$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZlF15rO7jSEElRTAda46vvQ8cw4= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:20109 On 12/4/2012 6:20 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote: > On 12/4/2012 10:53 AM, markspace wrote: >> Tomcat isn't an app. It's a server, and a deamon. Look those words up. > > It is a server that can be run as a daemon. It can also be run as > a console app. Huh, is "console app" different from a server/daemon? I'm just wondering because I wasn't aware Tomcat had any other operating modes besides "daemon." > > And unless one use a very strict separation between applications and > system/infrastructure software then it is also an application itself - > a Java application. Yes, by "app" I assumed the OP meant desktop application or web app (application). Generic applications are "programs" to me, unless they're specifically something else (daemon, kernel module, desktop app, library, etc.)