• Post Reply Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic
programming forums Java Mobile Certification Databases Caching Books Engineering Micro Controllers OS Languages Paradigms IDEs Build Tools Frameworks Application Servers Open Source This Site Careers Other Pie Elite all forums
this forum made possible by our volunteer staff, including ...
Marshals:
  • Campbell Ritchie
  • Jeanne Boyarsky
  • Ron McLeod
  • Paul Clapham
  • Liutauras Vilda
Sheriffs:
  • paul wheaton
  • Rob Spoor
  • Devaka Cooray
Saloon Keepers:
  • Stephan van Hulst
  • Tim Holloway
  • Carey Brown
  • Frits Walraven
  • Tim Moores
Bartenders:
  • Mikalai Zaikin

Application server versus Servlet Container

 
Greenhorn
Posts: 4
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
A servlet container is supposed to serve static content but by the use of plugins it can be made capable of generateing the dynamic content . I am curious to know what are the plugins which Tomcat , being a servlet container , uses to gererate dynamic response . Is it possible to make a servlet container act like a aplication server by making use of plugins ?
 
Author and all-around good cowpoke
Posts: 13078
6
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator

A servlet container is supposed to serve static content but by the use of plugins it can be made capable of generateing the dynamic content .



Where in the world did you get that definition?

A servlet container provides an environment for servlets to create dynamic content - typical servlet containers provide built-in servlets to handle static content.

Are you interested in non-java plugins or what?

Bill

 
Saloon Keeper
Posts: 27762
196
Android Eclipse IDE Tomcat Server Redhat Java Linux
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
You've got a lot to learn about Tomcat (we have a forum for that, incidentally!)

Tomcat is technically an Application Server, but Tomcat and Jetty don't implement the full J2EE or JEE stacks, just the servlet/JSP functions. And some JNDI. And Database connection pools. Some other webapp servers, such as older versions of JBoss, actually embedded copies of Tomcat or Jetty into themselves to provide their servlet container functions.

And no, there aren't plugins for Tomcat to do that kind of stuff. Tomcat comes already functional as a servlet container.
 
Bartender
Posts: 1845
10
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Take out the word "Servlet Container" in this and substitute "Web Server" and the definition isn't that bad

A Web Server is supposed to serve static content but by the use of plugins it can be made capable of generating dynamic content.

Example of web server: Apache HTTP Server.
And there are multiple modules for Apache to generate dynamic content. One of which is the Tomcat Connector :-)

 
reply
    Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic