Re: Re: Perl in Tomcat

Tomcat is a Java Application Server not a web server.

No, tomcat is quite a web server just like apache2 is, and they both support not only HTTP, but other protocols. The differnce is, tomcat by default supports internally java. with mod_perl of course, apache internally supports perl.

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Re: Re: Re: Perl in Tomcat by inman (Curate) on May 13, 2004 at 16:22 UTC
That depends on your definition of a web server. Tomcat can serve HTML pages and handle CGI but it's capabilities are limited compared to a fully loaded web server such as Apache that was designed to be a web server from the outset. Tomcat ships with a number of connectors of which one is an HTTP connector. While the Native Tomcat HTTP connector is great, it is limited in functionality compared to a full webserver like Apache. The documentation explains the capabilities and limitations. The documentation also describes why you would choose to implement Tomcat and Apache. A production Java application environment typically consists of a Java Application Server (e.g. Tomcat) paired with a full web server. This pairing leverages the strengths of both applications.	[reply]

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Re: Re: Re: Perl in Tomcat
by inman (Curate) on May 13, 2004 at 16:22 UTC

Tomcat ships with a number of connectors of which one is an HTTP connector. While the Native Tomcat HTTP connector is great, it is limited in functionality compared to a full webserver like Apache. The documentation explains the capabilities and limitations. The documentation also describes why you would choose to implement Tomcat and Apache.

A production Java application environment typically consists of a Java Application Server (e.g. Tomcat) paired with a full web server. This pairing leverages the strengths of both applications.

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