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The Smart Techie was renamed Siliconindia India Edition starting Feb 2012 to continue the nearly two decade track record of excellence of our US edition.

January - 2008 - issue > Tech Tracker

Tomcat: Most Java programmers' pet

Christo Jacob

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

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Recently, Tomcat seems to have become the pet of Java developers. Tomcat is an application server designed specifically for Java applications, providing an environment for Java Code to run in cooperation with a web server. While there is a hustle going on between the big three Java application servers – IBM’s WebSphere, BEA Systems WebLogic, and Oracle Application Server, they have been overshadowed by Tomcat, one of the successful commercial Java products, a free open source code from the Apache Software Foundation.

Unlike others, Tomcat is not sold in the market. Hence it doesn’t show up in market, according to the research by IDC based on product revenue share. It’s available for free download from the Apache Software Foundation’s website, which will help it become a market leader over commercial products.

According to a Java survey conducted by BZ Media unit in December 2006, Tomcat was being used by 64.3 percent of those surveyed. Whereas IBM’s WebSphere was being used by 36.9 percent; Red Hat’s JBoss, 32 percent; BEA Systems’ WebLogic, 23.7percent; and Oracle Application Server, 22.4 percent.

Recently, the latest version of a book called “Tomcat: The Definitive Guide” was released by Jason Brittain and Ian F. Darwin to help developers understand how and why Tomcat was developed. Moreover, the book is updated to help work with the latest version of Tomcat.

Due to the demand for lighter and simpler technologies, Java programmers are downloading Tomcat and run it in a Java development environment. However in the previous survey, many respondents had not listed Tomcat.