The cluster component has been added to help in the management of large applications. The cluster is mainly used for load balancing and can be achieved through a number of techniques. Currently, one is required to have JDK version 1. This is usually achieved by simply dispatching live traffic requests to a different server which is located to a different port as the main server is upgraded or replaced on the main port.
This is an indispensable feature when handling user requests on applications that are considered high traffic. The web application comes for both system and user based application enhancements, all these make it pretty easy to deploy across a variety of environments, be it mobile, desktop or even remote based.
The component does also manage applications as well as sessions across the network. It is worth mentioning that there are a whole lot of components which users can either opt to build on their own or download from one of the numerous mirrors and then proceed to upload into the server.
It is also important to note that by adding some administrative services from other vendors, it is possible to meet IT operations requirements; giving users a complete suite of services at any given time. As earlier mentioned, defining whether Apache Tomcat is an application server is dependent on who you are talking to.
Those who develop rather lightweight and not too complex web based applications will vouch for it as an application server since they use it quite effectively and efficiently on a daily basis as an application server. The few add-ons that they need to deploy from time to time notwithstanding. Whichever the case, the truth though is that even though Tomcat cannot be technically defined as an application server, it is continuously and successfully being used as an application server for millions of mission-critical applications on a daily basis.
The jury is still out there. Is Tomcat An Application Server? Table of Contents show. What Is An Application Server? Share this post:. Share on facebook. Share on twitter. Share on linkedin. Share on reddit. An "exploded" web app is an application that isn't compressed into a WAR file, meaning it still contains all the elements laid out in directories and files. The advantage of an exploded deploy is you can look at the files there without worrying about compression. Tomcat is serving an HTML file from the file system, which is an instance of Tomcat's Coyote engine acting as a web server.
You are free to explore the examples presented--they give you a good overview of Tomcat's capabilities for serving servlets, JSPs, and WebSockets. Among other things, this app allows you to start, stop, and redeploy apps from a web console. For improved performance, primarily in delivering static content, Tomcat also offers native wrappers for Windows and Linux. This is known as Tomcat APR and more information is available here.
These are not necessary for typical use cases, but good to know about. For a long time, Jetty was the only server capable of running as an embedded server.
That has changed, and now Tomcat can also run embedded. The idea in using an embedded server is that instead of the server containing the application files, as you've seen so far, you have an application with a main class that is, a standalone Java app , that invokes the server capabilities from inside its code base.
Overall, this offers a more simple and portable development model, and has rapidly become the norm. Spring Boot, for example, uses an embedded Tomcat instance running in dev mode. Running an embedded server can net simplicity in terms of operations, since you are now dealing with just a single component the app instead of dealing with both the app and a server deployment.
On the other hand, the setup where Tomcat runs as an independent host is still very common. It is possible to use more of the standard Java EE or Jakarta EE capabilities with Tomcat by adding those libraries to Tomcat itself, or to your application dependencies.
Another option is the TomEE server. Tomcat remains actively developed, keeping pace with change, and delivering a solid and reliable platform for deploying web apps. Both its continued popularity and choice as the default Java platform for many PaaS systems testify to its ongoing success. This story, "What is Tomcat? Tomcat was given that name by James Duncan Davison, software architect at Sun. He hoped that Tomcat would be open source and it now is and wanted to choose an animal as the name to make it easy for O'Reilly when they published the inevitable book.
For those of you who are not familiar with O'Reilly, they put animals on their book covers. He came up with Tomcat as an animal that could take care of, and fend for, itself. While researching, I've also come up with some other interesting history. I've know since I started with Java that it was previously known as "OaK" - Oak after an Oaktree that grew outside the office in which it was hatched up, to be supreceeded by "Java" since the programmers who wrote it drank a lot of coffee from that island.
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