Tomcat Review

It has sufficient documentation for application development but it needs to be improved to handle JNDI resources.

Valuable Features:

  • Lightweight
  • Configurable
  • High-performance
  • Cross-platform
  • Open source 
  • It has sufficient documentation for application development

Room for Improvement:

The cluster management and load balancing is a bit complex. Also, they need to improve the documentation to handle JNDI resources.

Use of Solution:

I've used it for 10 years.

Deployment Issues:

Deployment is simple, however, a limitation is hot deployment.

Stability Issues:

No issues encountered.

Cost and Licensing Advice:

No costs.

Other Solutions Considered:

If you were to have no JEE applications, then it is advisable, otherwise the application server falls short.

**Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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Web apps are very easy to deploy.
The most valuable feature of this solution is that it supports Java Enterprise.
Tomcat is user-friendly and easy to set up, especially compared to WebLogic or JBoss where some specialty is required. If you are going for Tomcat, you can use their guidelines and can set it up easily.
We chose to use Tomcat because it's perfect compared to other containers that we have tested.
The most valuable features of this solution are the general web server features.
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