Tomcat 5.1 is Application or WebServer

[Nathaniel Stoddard]

Perhaps it's both, depending on your definitions of course.

[paras virdi]

hi
Please tell whether Apache tomcat 5.1 is Application or web Server
i think it is webserver
but some say it is Applicatio server

Thanks

[Eelco den Heijer]

Apache webserver = webserver
Tomcat = servlet container, but some say 'application server' since it hosts 'web applications'.
Since you can host web resources such as HTML, gif, css etc. from Tomcat as well, tomcat can be used as both, but it is primarily servlet engine (or, an application server).