Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Robert Klemme Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: What Application Server are you using? Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 23:31:45 +0100 Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: <3843209b-7a1d-4812-a8dc-06738ed60658@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net 3lEH3EFvMViiDx3HPzY10wl4p5G1Mf56uVKyqePXQvu70PuPA= Cancel-Lock: sha1:X4x4DQrYvAX/lqW2NMXTs2lWg2I= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 In-Reply-To: <3843209b-7a1d-4812-a8dc-06738ed60658@googlegroups.com> Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:27734 On 03/11/2014 04:54 PM, Robert Hutchings wrote: > Please forgive my ignorance, but I thought Apache Tomcat was > specifically designed as a "servlet engine" for JSP. Is that correct > or incorrect? :) Servlets are older than JSP. IIRC Tomcat started out as the reference implementation of the Servlet standard but soon matured into a full web server including servlet container and later JSP container. It's not a JEE application server but it contains a number of those features. Fun fact: JBoss (which is called Wildfly now if I'm not mistaken) used to contain a fork of Tomcat code for the web container. Not sure about the current implementation - either it has evolved away from original Tomcat code or they did a rewrite at some point in time. Kind regards robert