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Apache and Jakarta Tomcat
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Summary
As we draw this chapter to a close, let's review some of the key points that have been covered:
❑ The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is a non-profit organization created to provide the
world with quality open source software.
❑ The ASF maintains a whole series of open source projects. The ASF's Java projects are
collected under the umbrella of a parent project called Jakarta.
❑ Tomcat is one of the most popular subprojects in the Jakarta project.
❑ Tomcat can be freely used in any organization. It can be freely redistributed in any
commercial project so long as its license is also included with the redistribution and proper
recognition is given.
❑ J2EE is a series of technologies designed to make the creation of complex, distributed
applications easier.
❑ Tomcat is a fully J2EE-compliant servlet container, and is the official Reference
Implementation for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies.
❑ While Tomcat can also function as a web server, it can also be integrated with other web servers.
❑ Tomcat has special support for integrating with the Apache, IIS, and NES servers.
This chapter has been an overview of Tomcat, but what do Tomcat-served web applications look like?
What files comprise them? We've covered that a little bit in this chapter, but in the next chapter we'll go
into this subject in detail.