DevOps-Tomcat Day'29, '30, '31

web servers- used for serving and deploying the static content.

apache HTTPD

Nginx

HAPROXY

Application server- used to serve the dynamic web application.

we can deploy ear and war files also in application server.

Tomcat-

Tomcat is the combination of web server and application server.

Tomcat→web server + servlets/JSP engine

For developing dynamic web appliction, we use servlets.

→we can deploy the war(web application code + HTML/Jsp,css) files to tomcat.

→ Tomcat is developed by Apache software.

→ Tomcat is an open source application server, used to deploy java based web application.

→ We can install Tomcat in any OS

→ Tomcat alternate softwares are: JETTY, Glashfish to deploy war files.

Pre-requisites used for installing Tomcat:

→ Java installed

→ Tomcat 9 or below version