tomcat vs. jboss?

[Mike Noel]

This is probably a very silly question but I couldn't seem to find the answer. What is the relationship between tomcat and jboss? Is jboss a competitor to tomcat? Does one operate within the other?

Just trying to understand.

_M_

[Sapna Grover]

JBoss is essentially a EJB container, and Tomcat is a servlet container. The good thing or the confusing part is that JBoss has a pluggable architect as a result you can run servlet container like Tomcat within JBoss.

Thanks
Sapna Grover

[Hemant Agarwal]

Does that means JBoss does not have a web container?
It has to take services from tomcat or other web containers?

[ February 08, 2006: Message edited by: Hemant Agarwal ]

[Pradeep bhatt]

Originally posted by Hemant Agarwal:
Does that means JBoss does not have a web container?
It has to take services from tomcat or other web containers?


[ February 08, 2006: Message edited by: Hemant Agarwal ]

JBoss does not provide its own Web Container.

[Hemant Agarwal]

Originally posted by Pradip Bhat:


JBoss does not provide its own Web Container.

Does it provides all other J2EE related things or is it provides only EJB Container?

[Tom Marrs]

JBoss was originally just an EJB/JMS container. JBoss now comes bundled with Tomcat (a JSP/Servlet container). So, JBoss is running the show and it runs Tomcat as a managed service. Overall, it's a seamless integration of products that work well together.

Tom

[Joshua Smith]

I've also heard of using JBoss with other products like Jetty or Geronimo. How do these play into the mix?

Joshua Smith

[Dave Salter]

You used to be able to download JBoss (in version 3 I think) with either Jetty or Tomcat. With version 4, I think you can only download it with Tomcat.

Geronimo is a competitor to JBoss. It is another open source JEE application server offering the same type of functionality as JBoss.

[Scott Selikoff]

Wasn't installing Tomcat an extra step in older versions of JBoss? Its been so long since I've done it though.

[Joshua Smith]

Is there any advantage to Jetty over Tomcat? Or Geronimo over JBoss?

[Dave Salter]

Originally posted by Scott Selikoff:
Wasn't installing Tomcat an extra step in older versions of JBoss? Its been so long since I've done it though.

Quite possibly. I remember back to either 3.0 or 3.1 and you could download either a Tomcat version or a Jetty version. They were/are plugable components though, so you should be able to remove one and have a version of JBoss without a web container...(if you really wanted to)

[Anil Verghese]

Hi!
Why we have to use JBOSS for JSP,SERVLET container?..
Is there any advantage over Tomcat?

[Ulf Dittmer]

Anil, as was pointed out in the above posts, JBoss does not have a servlet/JSP container. It uses Tomcat for that purpose.

[Ben Souther]

This FAQ entry might help:
http://faq.javaranch.com/java/WebVsApplicationServer

[Pat Farrell]

Originally posted by Scott Selikoff:
Wasn't installing Tomcat an extra step in older versions of JBoss? Its been so long since I've done it though.

It used to be, but that was long ago, in a galaxy far away.

For the past 4 years or so, its a one step solution.