Item: Apache Tomcat
Rating: 9
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Apache Tomcat

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In 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.

Pros and Cons

Pros

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

Cons

Sometimes it's not that easy to configure, we had problems configuring the SSL connection
It doesn't have an EJB container

Return on Investment

We saved a lot of money adopting this free software

Alternatives Considered

JBoss Application Server

Likelihood to Recommend

Apache Tomcat is a very famous software, it's extensively used by the community, it's open source. All these peculiarities make this software very reliable so you can use it in production environments, no worries. If for some reason you need weird configurations, then it may be better to adopt a paid software with official support.

Apache Tomcat Feature Ratings

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Excellent software! Free, Reliable, Open Source