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Apache Tomcat
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Apache Tomcat

#6in Platform as a Service
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What is Apache Tomcat?

Apache Tomcat powers numerous large-scale, mission-critical web applications across a diverse range of industries and organizations.

Apache Tomcat is a tool in the Platform as a Service category of a tech stack.

Apache Tomcat Pros & Cons

Pros of Apache Tomcat

  • ✓Easy
  • ✓Java
  • ✓Popular
  • ✓Spring web

Cons of Apache Tomcat

  • ✗Blocking - each http request block a thread
  • ✗Easy to set up

Apache Tomcat Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Apache Tomcat?

NGINX

NGINX

nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server, written by Igor Sysoev. According to Netcraft nginx served or proxied 30.46% of the top million busiest sites in Jan 2018.

Apache HTTP Server

Apache HTTP Server

The Apache HTTP Server is a powerful and flexible HTTP/1.1 compliant web server. Originally designed as a replacement for the NCSA HTTP Server, it has grown to be the most popular web server on the Internet.

Microsoft IIS

Microsoft IIS

Internet Information Services (IIS) for Windows Server is a flexible, secure and manageable Web server for hosting anything on the Web. From media streaming to web applications, IIS's scalable and open architecture is ready to handle the most demanding tasks.

OpenResty

OpenResty

OpenResty (aka. ngx_openresty) is a full-fledged web application server by bundling the standard Nginx core, lots of 3rd-party Nginx modules, as well as most of their external dependencies.

LiteSpeed

LiteSpeed

It is a drop-in Apache replacement and the leading high-performance, high-scalability server. You can replace your existing Apache server with it without changing your configuration or operating system details. As a drop-in replacement, it allows you to quickly eliminate Apache bottlenecks in 15 minutes with zero downtime.

Passenger

Passenger

Phusion Passenger is a web server and application server, designed to be fast, robust and lightweight. It takes a lot of complexity out of deploying web apps, adds powerful enterprise-grade features that are useful in production, and makes administration much easier and less complex.

Apache Tomcat Integrations

Tutum, NixOS, Apache CXF, Boxfuse, Lucee and 7 more are some of the popular tools that integrate with Apache Tomcat. Here's a list of all 12 tools that integrate with Apache Tomcat.

Tutum
Tutum
NixOS
NixOS
Apache CXF
Apache CXF
Boxfuse
Boxfuse
Lucee
Lucee
Apache Cocoon
Apache Cocoon
SPM
SPM
Datadog
Datadog
Sematext
Sematext
UrbanCode Deploy
UrbanCode Deploy
observIQ
observIQ
Devo
Devo

Apache Tomcat Discussions

Discover why developers choose Apache Tomcat. Read real-world technical decisions and stack choices from the StackShare community.

Tomas Zeman
Tomas Zeman

product manager at Jetcheater

Jul 6, 2019

Needs adviceonPlayPlayApache TomcatApache Tomcat

I use Play as the best Java framewrk for web development. It is easy to use and I was able to learn it quickly. Before I was using Apache Tomcat , but I would never go back. Play is preselecting for you popular and usefull libraries, you can use templating with Twirl, JPA, Injections and much more.

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Chris Barnett
Chris Barnett

CTO at Promethean TV

Sep 29, 2018

Needs adviceonApache TomcatApache Tomcat

Apache Tomcat is part of the open source Ant Media Server platform that currently provides both LIVE and VOD video trans-coding and delivery features for the Promethean Platform. Apache Tomcat

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Kingsley Victor
Kingsley Victor

Jul 22, 2018

Needs adviceonApache TomcatApache Tomcat

I use Tomcat to run Java enterprise web apps. Used to test enterprise applications mostly written using the Spring framework Apache Tomcat

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Cian Ó Cuinneagáin
Cian Ó Cuinneagáin

CTO

May 19, 2016

Needs adviceonApache TomcatApache Tomcat

Use this as the application server running on our production and development environment. Hosted on AWS. Apache Tomcat

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Poogles
Poogles

Feb 14, 2015

Needs adviceonApache TomcatApache Tomcat

Tomcat provides a fantastic application container that runs the majority of services of the site. Apache Tomcat

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