Tomcat – Architecture and server.xml configuration
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We already learnt how webservers work in general when you deploy your web application on server and access from a browser. Now let’s learn the stuffs inside server which may not be used in day to day job, but they will certainly help you when you are configuring your application first time. I have been using tomcat server from long time so I am picking it for tutorial. I will try to share my learning on other servers in future whenever time permits. Apache Tomcat is an open-source web server and servlet container developed by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). Tomcat implements several Java EE specifications including Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages (JSP), Java EL, and WebSocket, and provides a “pure Java” HTTP web server environment for Java code to run in. [ Wiki ] Tomcat’s Architecture Tomcat’s architecture consists of a series of functional components that can be combined according to well-defined rules. Tomcat Architecture The structure of each server installatio
