#1 most frequent
United States of America
37.3%4,764 installations of 12,757
What is Apache Tomcat?
Tomcat is an open-source web server supported by Apache.
Categories & Use Cases
Product Demos
Top Performing Features
IDE support
Support for a number of different programming environments or IDEs
Category average: 7.3
Installation
Ease of download and installation
Category average: 8.5
Open-source standards compliance
Support for open-source standards like J2EE
Category average: 7.9
Areas for Improvement
Security management
Integrated security management for applications
Category average: 8.3
Administration and management
Ease of management via administration console
Category average: 7.6
Application server performance
Speed of deploy time, initialization time and other performance metrics
Category average: 8.3
Who Buys & Uses Apache Tomcat
#2 most frequent
India
8.9%1,131 installations of 12,757
#3 most frequent
China
5.6%713 installations of 12,757
Apache Tomcat: Amazing application server
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I have used it for many years..it is our first web server to deploy and test our application.Simple to use and configure.it is open source and it is use to deploy java based applications.
Pros
- Web application server
- Deployment of web application
- Provide security to our application
Cons
- Sometime it crashed so we need to restart the server
Return on Investment
- Free open source
- Easy to use
- Some limitation to deploy large complex system on apache server
As a sysadmin, Tomcat is a pleasure to manage.
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Apache Tomcat to serve Java applications to our end users. These are main line-of-business applications, aimed both at staff and students, from a major vendor. Their uptime and performance are important to us, and Tomcat is key to delivering them.
Pros
- performance
- reliability
- management
Cons
- logging
Most Important Features
- reliable
- Uses plaintext config files.
- Performs well.
Return on Investment
- Reduced labor for new installs.
- Reduced labor for troubleshooting.
- Reduced risk because many sysadmins can do an install and not just one guru.
Alternatives Considered
Oracle WebLogic Application Server
Other Software Used
HAProxy, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
Web app deployment made easy
Pros
- Apache Tomcat is Open-sourced, and it's free to use.
- Easy to install and configure.
- Multiple applications can run at the same time without any issues.
- Apache Tomcat Has excellent built-in security features and provided a rich API sets.
Cons
- The User Interface is limited and very basic and needs to be improved.
- Support for full J2EE stack.
Return on Investment
- Apache Tomcat is free. So nothing has to be purchased.
- Also, we can easily configure Apache Tomcat. No need for any expert knowledge.
Alternatives Considered
Oracle WebLogic Application Server and NGINX
Other Software Used
TeamViewer, Zoom, Skype for Business (formerly Lync), Cisco AnyConnect, OneDrive, Symantec Endpoint Protection
Excellent web server for Java application
Pros
- Tomcat support almost Web server feature we need including Connection pool, Tread pool, Https, Mutual and data Source
- Tomcat is lightweight, easy to install and configuration
- easy to customize startup and stop script to adjust memory or startup option
- provide rich API set
- intergrate with almost main IDE such as Eclipse, Intellij..
Cons
- Default log is not good enough and need to customize
- Tomcat interface is simple and have limit function
- Support for cluster is not good
Return on Investment
- Increase product activity of team
- Speedup our development and deployment time
- Provide high performance and lightweight server
- Default support by Azure Web app
Alternatives Considered
Oracle WebLogic Application Server
Other Software Used
Eclipse, Gitlab, Azure SQL Database, Apache Solr, JMeter
Usability
Best web application server
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Apache Tomcat is great tool for the deployment of the application. Its the web server in short called as WAS. We deploy lot application with help of kubernetes which creates the container and the application will be running in the Apache Tomcat server. It is very light weight application which is very easy to install and remove .
Pros
- Web application
- Deployment
- Integration with kubernetes and jenkins
Cons
- Apache Tomcat UI needs be improved in my opinion
- Additional features can be added in main page
Most Important Features
- Deployment of application
- Web application server
- Integration with Jenkins and kubernetes
Return on Investment
- Great investment has its light weight
- Can be easily understood by anyone
Alternatives Considered
JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform, NGINX and Oracle WebLogic Application Server
Other Software Used
Google Kubernetes Engine, Docker, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform