Tomcat is a web container. It supports APIs in the presentation layer described earlier. In addition, it supports JDBC and JPA. It is easy to configure and could be a good option if you do not want to use EJBs.
Download the latest version of Tomcat from http://tomcat.apache.org/. Unzip the downloaded file in a folder. Set the JAVA_HOME environment variable to point to the folder where JDK is installed (the folder path should be the JDK folder, which has bin as one of the subfolders). To start the server, run startup.bat in Command Prompt on Windows and startup.sh in a Terminal window on Mac and Linux. If there are no errors, then you should see the message Server startup in --ms or Tomcat started.
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