258 Migrating Applications from WebLogic, JBoss and Tomcat to WebSphere V6
8.1 Introduction
Apache Tomcat 5.5.9 is an open source implementation of Sun’s J2EE Web
container. It implements Java Servlet and JSP specifications and is used in the
official Reference Implementation for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages
specifications. Tomcat is developed by a community of developers under the
umbrella of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). Tomcat is widely used by
large number of Web sites. It is popular for its small footprint, simplicity and large
number of toolkits and frameworks that run on it. One of its nice features is the
fact that it is open source and it is free to use.
Applications tend to grow over time and at some point need highe ...