Apache Tomcat

Covered Java EE specifications such as:

• Java Servlet.
• JavaServer Pages (JSP)
• Java Expression Language.
• Java WebSockets.

Limit

• does not support JMS and EJB, so not full Java EE compliant
  • Solution: Apache TomEE is the Enterprise Edition of Apache Tomcat
• support for clustering is limited
• Admin console and configuration is not intuitive nor user friendly
• Default logging and log rotation is trivial
• Poor technical support

History

• Tomcat started off as a servlet reference implementation by James Duncan Davidson, a software architect at Sun Microsystems.
• Apache Ant software build automation tool was developed as a side-effect of the creation of Tomcat as an open source project.
• Tomcat started off in November 1998