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What is Tomcat?Tomcat is a Java Servlet container and web server from Jakartha project of Apache software foundation. A web server sends web pages as response to the requests sent by the browser client. In addition to the static web pages, dynamic web pages are also sent to the web browsers by the web server. Tomcat is sophisticated in this respect, as it provides both Servlet and JSP technologies. Tomcat provides a good choice as a web server for many web applications and also a free Servlet and JSP engine. Tomcat can be used standalone as well as behind other web servers such as Apache httpd.
What is Tomcat?1. Tomcat is a Java Servlet container and web server from the Jakarta project of the Apache software foundation.
2. A web server responds with web pages to requests from client browsers.
3. Web servers can provide dynamic content based on the requests sent by the user.
4. Tomcat is very good at this because it provides both Java servlet and JavaServerPages (JSP) technologies.
5. Tomcat can also be used as a web server for many applications even if free servlet and JSP engine is wanted.
6. It can be used standalone or used behind traditional web servers such as Apache httpd, with the traditional server serving static pages and Tomcat serving dynamic servlet and JSP requests.
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