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Tomcat is an open-source web server supported by Apache.https://media.trustradius.com/product-logos/Q7/TS/6S3BR8W0MTLL.jpegApacheExcellent web server for Java application2019-07-10T19:50:13.781ZWe use Tomcat as our Web Application server for small and middle size web application and expose Restful API microservices in our multiple projects. Tomcat provides a rich set of API so we could easy to integrate with our Gitlab pipeline to have full lifecycle CICD or build script to automate all deployment process.,Tomcat support almost Web server feature we need including Connection pool, Tread pool, Https, Mutual and data Source
Tomcat is lightweight, easy to install and configuration
easy to customize startup and stop script to adjust memory or startup option
provide rich API set
intergrate with almost main IDE such as Eclipse, Intellij..,Default log is not good enough and need to customize
Tomcat interface is simple and have limit function
Support for cluster is not good,9,Increase product activity of team
Speedup our development and deployment time
Provide high performance and lightweight server
Default support by Azure Web app,Oracle WebLogic Application Server,Eclipse, Gitlab, Azure SQL Database, Apache Solr, JMeter,9,8,9trang nguyenTomcat - small but powerful2018-11-30T18:17:59.481ZOur organization use Tomcat to deploy mostly light Java based web applications. Many of our applications are being deployed in Apache Tomcat, due to the ease of deployment and cost factoring. We use Tomcat as our main applications server due to its performance and light weight.,Lightweight. Does not require many resources to run.
Stable. Once tuned almost no maintenance is required for the instance.
Ease of deployment. Easy to install and set up. Documentations are widely available
Cost. Open sourced!,Mostly CLI based. GUI console although exist but not as user-friendly and basic.
Custom configurations are not as intuitive and may have a steep learning curve.,8,Tomcat is cheap and very quick to deploy, so it has benefited much when situation needs applications to be deployed quickly without wasting time on licensing and installations.
Plenty of documentation available so no vendor training is required. Support contract is not needed as well.,Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and Oracle WebLogic Application Server,Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Oracle WebLogic Application ServerVerified UserDeploy apps with Apache Tomcat2018-04-20T22:26:56.313ZWe are using Apache Tomcat to deploy our web application; it's a robust servlet container which performs really well in production.,Embedded Tomcat works like a charm for spring-boot apps
It has all that's needed to deploy apps in prod
The configuration is quite simple to implement and there is tons of documentation available on the internet,Ability to manage Tomcat using a web console
Support for JEE would be appreciated,10,It's free which is awesome
There are tons of resources available on the internet when some config needs to be done
Large community supporting the product which makes it easier to find solutions to common problems,,IntelliJ IDEA, IntelliJ WebStorm, Visual Studio IDERene EnriquezTomcat wide-scale use!2018-04-06T16:35:23.693ZApache Tomcat is being used in my organization to run seven of my ten applications. It has been our preferred solution for an application server for years as a lightweight and stable solution for hosting applications. It is currently being standardized across the whole company; however, we standardized on it years ago. It solves the problem of providing low-cost application servers that require very little maintenance but also provides excellent scalability at the web tier. The desire to drive down costs, while still providing solid secure solutions was a driving business factor in choosing to move to Tomcat.,It is very lightweight and not resource intensive, which leads to fast start-up times
It is very stable, I have not had an outage related to Tomcat in over 10 years and no longer even have support contracts for it.
It's very scalable, especially in a cloud solution where you can perform auto-scaling and add nodes within short periods of time.,Configuration could be made easier, but then again it's open source.,10,It has decreased license costs significantly. Throughout my application stacks, I have well over 90 instances deployed. If I did that on a non-opensource application server, my costs would be much higher and my ROI much less.
When moving my applications to AWS, it has also provided an even better ROI because it's even easier to deploy and maintain on a managed cloud provider.,WebSphere Application Server, Oracle WebLogic Application Server and JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform,Oracle Database 12c, Apache Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, iManage Work, Jenkins, JIRA Software, Atlassian Confluence,90Bryan SalernoSpeed up the launch of your light-weighted Web application/service2018-02-16T21:43:56.691ZWe use tomcat bundled with the SpringBoot in Fedex IT departments, majorly for small/middle-scaled and light-weighted web application and RESTful based micro services. Those light applications are supposed to be containerized to support the cloud-native initiative. Also for a quick POC purpose, we use Tomcat as the light solution to host some pure servlet based codes.,tomcat is very light-weighted, that means a small memory footprint and a very quick starting time
It also supports the modern security demands well
Using the version bundled with the SpringBoot, saving the extra deployment efforts, making your single JVM application become the quick web service solution easily,tomcat is just part of the J2EE specification implementation, majorly focusing on the servlet (front-end) part. If you requires the full J2ee stack, like EJB support, you need consider other containers like Weblogic
tomcat's cluster level support is very limited
tomcat's admin/configuration is not so intuitive, and default logging needs a lot of improvement,7,tomcat makes the POC much more efficient, speeding up the early phase of decision making, and concept proof, shortened the project planning phase required time
tomcat saves the extra training and resources for web container management, typically when it is used with bundled Spring Boot,Oracle WebLogic Application Server,Oracle Database 12c, TIBCO Enterprise Message Service, TIBCO ActiveSpacesyixiang ShanQuick Review on Tomcat2018-01-24T14:50:17.140ZMy organization offers a web product for mobile operators to expose their own web APIs as a managed service, which is expected to be highly performed since it handles millions of transactions on daily basis. So Apache Tomcat is a part of it by deploying all the web applications/services associated with the product.,Apache Tomcat is the best lightweight servlet container for j2ee web applications.
Unless you want advanced j2ee features, Tomcat is the right choice.
Since this is open source, it is freely available for anyone to use.,Apache tomcat does not come with the implementations of full j2ee stack.
Developers who need the advanced features may realize that tomcat lacks some functionalities.
Tomcat may raise memory issues if is not tuned up.,9,Since Tomcat is open source, no cost is needed for running this software.
There is no big issue in installing, updating and uninstalling. So in overall, maintaining this software is very easy.
Troubleshooting issues may not be easy sometimes. So it takes time and can affect the business negatively.,Eclipse Jetty,No,Price
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Prior Experience with the ProductVerified UserApache Tomcat Review2017-11-09T19:30:53.730ZTomcat is utilized across our enterprise as a solid, complaint, j2ee web container.,Tomcat easily integrates with Apache HTTP server over jk_mod.
Web app deployment is simplistic.
The application can be easily replicated across installations.
The server is compact and can be deployed into various enterprise schemes, including virtual servers, cloud, docker containers, with little administration necessary.
Tomcat can help facilitate micro services and make deployment management easier.,Adding more default logging and log rotation capabilities outside of standard OS level Crontab would be appreciated
The management console is an under utilized web app and for the most part could be discarded. If required, the app could be brought in but is mostly unnecessary overhead.
Adding a mobile manager may also help users that are less inclined to get directly on the server.,9,Positive gains by rapid deployment and touch less support.
We spend little time maintaining and have automated upgrades of Tomcat so that very little resource allocation is required.
Having third party vendors actively participate in the support process of Tomcat is also a value add for our business objectives.,Caucho Resin,IBM InfoSphere Information Server, Microsoft Office 2016, Atlassian ConfluenceGregory HansonStable, Lightweight HTTP servlet container for Web Apps and APIs2017-08-07T17:27:14.843ZTomcat is being used as an application server across the organization. Most of our backend web applications and RESTful APIs run on Tomcat platform. Tomcat is baked into the AMI that is created for AWS and our web applications are pushed into the AMIs using Chef scripts. Then the tomcat server is brought up and applications are deployed.,Tomcat is used for writing backend web applications in Java, Spring etc.
They are also used to host our APIs. Our Spring or RestEasy API frameworks run are used to build APIs and Tomcat is the application server where they are hosted.,Tomcat is a fairly stable and lightweight application server and it being open source lot of organizations are using it to host their applications.
I have seen the use of Tomcat decline in recent years because of serverless technical platforms like Lambdas on AWS. Also Spring Boot and Jetty servers can run web applications/APIs by bringing container bundled into the app and without a need for separate server deployment and management. Same is the case with Spring boot, though in Spring Boot you could use embedded Tomcat too. But I have seen developers using Jetty more.,7,Apache Tomcat is a very stable, lightweight App server that is open source and free to use in an enterprise. Many banks and other product companies use it for their open source web/API development.
I cannot see any negative ROI for Apache Tomcat. Developers and users are easy to get and most of the candidates i see during interviews have experience in Tomcat.,,Splunk Enterprise, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Redis, AWS LambdaVerified UserApache Tomcat 7,-great lightweight container for simple web apps2017-04-12T19:34:22.517ZWe are using tomcat as a middleware web server for some of our Ellucian products including Degree Works and XE. It will soon be replacing all of our middleware products, particularly Oracle Fusion Middleware.,Deploying and un deploying .war files is simple using either tomcat manager or the tomcat scripts
Setting up is extremely easy, does not take much experience to set up the first time
Startup and shutdown scripts are easily customizable.,Using tomcat manager to troubleshoot is not very informative. Error messages are vague, you have to dig into log files for more information about the problems.
Is great for simple web applications, but may not work for heavy development which may require a full J2EE stack, might like JBoss better.
Security in tomcat is not straightforward, as I discovered that you have to understand how to set up realms in tomcat in order to hash passwords, which I was not overly familiar with, which is a big deal when setting up users in the tomcat-users.xml file.,9,It has simplified administration efforts, thus saving much time to focus on other projects and issues.
It saves us in costs, as there are no licensing requirements.
It gives us the ability to manage all of our java applets in one place, so as to be able to host both development and production systems on one server.,Oracle WebLogic Application Server,Oracle WebLogic Application Server, VMware vCenter Server, Windows Server, Oracle Database 12c, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Oracle Data WarehouseCandy CarrizalesTomcat eats Glassfish for breakfast2017-07-19T16:34:47.867ZIt is used by our IT department as a main web server. Most of our Java apps are hosted on this web container. We also use Tomcat to run our F5 application. So it acts as the main traffic controller for our domain.,It's a lightweight Java servlet container. Has minimal memory footprint.
It is fast and robust.
Has good security features built in.,Tomcat needs to improve its offerings for cluster based environments.
They need to start providing support for Java EJBs,8,Tomcat being an open source project is free for use. So it results in great ROI when being used in the production environment.,Oracle GlassFish Server,Google App Engine, Splunk Cloud, Oracle Access Managementomar ghaznaviApache Tomcat very reliable SSL encrypted web server for Non Profits.2017-06-23T20:50:55.466ZApache Tomcat is being used to serve as an SSL encrypted web server that hosts an attendance and billing system for a non-profit private school that serves 256 students from parents and other school districts. The attendance and billing system has to be flexible to accommodate students and many school districts that send students to this school. It connects to MySQL which hosts the database and J2E development environment.,Lightweight Web Server.
SSL Encryption.
Widely used and supported in the community.,The UI is limited and very basic.
Troubleshooting is sometimes difficult.
Logging produces too much data and hard to find what caused a problem.,7,We have had a positive impact on ROI by reducing IT expenditure on Microsoft Web servers.,Microsoft IIS and Apache Web Server,CloudFlare, Salsa CRMJin HwangHappy with Tomcat2017-04-24T14:28:19.593ZWe use Tomcat as our web application server to develop marketing content. It is a solid tool with a reliable enduring track record which is something we need for our enterprise. Its popularity across the community helps us leverage what has been done already to speed up our own development by not re-inventing the wheel.,Very stable, with solid application code, there is confidence in Tomcat's uptime.
Good platform for integrating different pieces of Java technology.
Very configurable.,Would be nice to have some tools to make common configuration easier (e.g. SSL).
Would be nice to make the learning curve less steep for those new to Tomcat.
Would be nice to make configuration less difficult (perhaps JSON instead of XML).,8,Enduring open platform that reduces need to change technology stacks
Trusted technology that allows focus to be on creating applications instead of dealing with the platform,JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform,JRebelClifford ChenTomcat - quick, easy Servlet hosting2016-08-03T18:55:35.486ZApache Tomcat served as the Servlet Container for any web-based applications written in Java. It was used throughout the organization for a number of different products.,Apache Tomcat is easy to install and get rolling quickly with a basic single-application deployment
Tomcat provides a lot of fine-grained configuration around administrator permissions, and security in a multi-app environment
Tomcat's management API actually makes it pretty easy to manage automatic code updates and self-updating code,As an apache product, it would be nice to automate the common install/configuration/deployment of httpd alongside Tomcat, where httpd serves static files and only passes control to Tomcat in the case that a servlet needs to be invoked.
Another nice-to-have would be the ability to, at installation time, specify the jar/war/folder that should be served from ROOT, rather than having the management interface be the default.,8,Apache Tomcat made auto-updating a fairly straightforward process, allowing us to easily implement continuous integration and delivery to the customer.,Oracle GlassFish Server,DigitalOcean, Puppet Data Center Automation, XamarinDavid McCannTomcat Servers2016-10-11T17:20:21.528ZTomcat was our main server. We used it both in our local machines and we ran it in our Amazon Web Services host. This was only being used by the engineering team because no other teams needed to know what server we were running. In addition, it was only our web team that dealt with the actual server.,The server is easy to install, start up and shut down.
It integrates very cleanly with Eclipse.
It's supported by AWS which makes deployments very smooth.,Because it's Java-based, you typically must re-compile to make use of updates which can drastically increase development time.
It was slightly painful to get set up in Eclipse relative to other newer solutions.
It would be nice if it were easier and more intuitive to make changes to the server configurations.,7,The positive impact is its universal support. It's easy to spin up a server and then deploy it to AWS.
The negative impact is the speed at which development occurs. Relative to a back end built on a scripting language, development time is much slower.
Overall, it's allowed us to scale the web site as the company grows.,,MySQL, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Eclipse LunaVerified UserExcellent software! Free, Reliable, Open Source2016-06-23T17:53:12.620ZIn my company this software is used to deploy every web app that we produce. Each department of my company develops web apps that are suitable for Apache Tomcat; this software is our official servlet container. We configured it to handle hundreds of concurrent sessions, SSL connections, and redeploy web apps on the fly and so on.,Very configurable to handle web apps deployed in many different places
Very reliable and extensible
It's used all over the world, it's very well documented and you can easily find solutions for your problems,Sometimes it's not that easy to configure, we had problems configuring the SSL connection
It doesn't have an EJB container,9,We saved a lot of money adopting this free software,JBoss Application ServerVerified UserFree and lightweight application server2016-05-10T16:30:00.640ZApache Tomcat is the most widely adopted application server used in our company. We have currently over 2000 Tomcat 6 and Tomcat 7 instances and we're starting the adoption of Tomcat 8. Tomcat is used to run internal applications and hosted applications.,It's very easy to install and requires few customizations in order to be production grade.
Very low memory consumption compared to, for example, to JBoss.
Nearly immediate start up time.,It lacks a built-in feature to provide auto-recovery in case of failure, for example,OutOfMemoryError.
In our company, we've been forced to use external tools like Monit or Java service wrapper.,9,Since it has no license costs, it's possible to scale up infrastructure without additional software costs.
The lack of business support is not a problem since there's a huge knowledge base inside our company and in the open source community.,Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform,WSO2 Carbon, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Oracle WebLogic Application Server,,,Corporate internal portal
Web applications used by academic customers
Shibboleth identity providers,Tomcat is still the number one choice for new applications in our company,We plan to use Tomcat inside docker containers,10,No,Price
Product Usability
Prior Experience with the Product,In some cases, we've used JBoss enterprise, and while reviewing our choice we realized that probably Tomcat would have covered the customer requirements as well with no additional fees.,8,It's important to remember to set up the ajp connector properly in server.xml. In particular, the maxThreads value has to be consistent with the number of maxActiveSessions defined inside the application context. It's also a best practise to set a value for connection Timeout for the ajp connector in order to avoid a waste of resources for inactive sessions.,No - there is no facility to customize the interface,No - we have not done any custom code,If you want to delegate authentication to some external entity (for example Shibboleth SP) just remember to set the tomcatAuthentication flag inside server.xml to "false",The configurations are file based (xml) and are well suited for puppet/docker integration,No,6,9,6,9,Yes,The main and most significant is that Tomcat 7 supports Servlet 3.0 specification,Developers that want to use the more recent servlet and jsp specifications are asking Tomcat 8,No,NoVerified User
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