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# Apache Tomcat

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> Apache Tomcat is an open source solution that implements Jakarta Servlet, JSP, EL, WebSocket, Annotations, Authentication.
> 
> Verdict: Rated **4.6/5** by 32 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**.

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## Overview

### Who Uses Apache Tomcat?

Small to midsize businesses needing web application hosting and servers. Developers building Java web apps. Organizations running Java EE apps.

## Quick Stats & Ratings

| Metric | Rating | Detail |
| **Overall** | **4.6/5** | 32 Reviews |
| Ease of Use | 4.3/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Customer Support | 3.5/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Value for Money | 4.5/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Features | 4.3/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Recommendation percentage | 90% | (9/10 Likelihood to recommend) |

## About the vendor

- **Company**: Apache Software Foundation
- **Founded**: 2011

## Commercial Context

- **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+
- **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Mac (Desktop), Windows (Desktop), Linux (Desktop)
- **Available Countries**: Germany

## Features

- Debugging

## Category

- [App Development Software](https://www.capterra.ie/directory/30082/application-development/software)

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## Reviews

### "Web server and container for Java applications" — 5.0/5

> **Martin** | *30 September 2023* | Computer Software | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10
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> **Pros**: Provides runtime container for running Java applications. Supporting implementation of different JAVA specifications like JSP, EJB. As input it request a JAVA code in war format. Load balancing is also available to provide better performance handling more client request into more server targets. It allows collecting debug outputs and logs.
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> **Cons**: It can be a bit slower then the native server implementation.
> 
> The no. 1 solution for running JAVA applications like server applications.

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### "Apache Tomcat: Quality Application Server for Running Java Servlets and Java Server Pages" — 4.0/5

> **Maha** | *1 August 2023* | Computer Software | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: Apache Tomcat supports the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) stack including Java Servlets and Java Server Pages (JSPs). I employed Apache Tomcat for teaching Java Server-side web development and used it to deploy 3-tier enterprise applications using Android on the client-side, JSPs and Java Servlets on the application server side and the Oracle 12c database on the data persistence layer. Apache Tomcat on the application server layer proved very effective in running Java Server-side components and it was very easy to install and deploy. The Library loading structure was very simple and it boils down to placing the specific .Jar Java library in the lib folder on Apache Tomcat. Once the Java JDK is installed successfully, running Apache Tomcat consists of simply running a .bat file (on Windows) or a .sh shell script (on Mac or Linux)
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> **Cons**: The main issues I faced in Apache Tomcat is the need to rerun the server every time a new Servlet code was added to the WEB-INF folder. This reduces the efficiency and increase the time of development. This wasn't the case with JSP pages which are automatically converted and compiled into a Servlet in the Background. I wish to have a Tomcat bundle that includes the Server as well as the Java JDK. This would make it easier to deploy the server even on systems not having the Java JDK installed.
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> Great experience that facilitates developing, deploying, and running 3-tier enterprise applications using the Java platform.

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### "Tomcat\_04-07-2022" — 5.0/5

> **Verified Reviewer** | *3 July 2022* | Computer Software | Recommendation rating: 5.0/10
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> **Pros**: Tomcat is great to deploy war projects developed by Jakarta or java enterprise edition.
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> **Cons**: Tomcat has a bad deployment management cli.
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> When I choose it, i develop a rest service.

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### "Easy to use and deloy a web application in a servlet container but might not be for all" — 5.0/5

> **Alice** | *7 June 2022* | Computer Software | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10
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> **Pros**: Ease of use and deployment
Admin console with various panels that allows you go see in-depth of usages of the web applications running
Fairly basic debugging with issues 
Restarting web apps is a one click button
Auto starts with windows
> 
> **Cons**: Not a full-fledged application stack like for instance glassfish. 
For a large organisation, it's probably better to go with something that is a complete JAVA EE application server. 
Debugging is fairly basic and doesn't allow viewing of the actual error. 
Sometimes can have issues with memory leaks, which is hard to debug in live environment.
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> Positive, have had lots of issues over the years but nothing serious enough for us to take the application down. Also, keep needing to redeploy with newer versions of Java which is understandable.

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### "Good Web Server to host Java based Web Applications" — 4.0/5

> **Verified Reviewer** | *21 December 2022* | Computer Software | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: I can easily upload a war file to deploy in tomcat using tomcat manager UI or directly upload to webapps folder. It will automatically unpack the war file and start deploying the applications. This process will take just a few minutes. We can stop/start any application using the tomcat manager UI itself.
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> **Cons**: It is slow while rendering static pages in comparison to Apache. It could be better if they improve static page rendering performance a little more.
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> I was using it to host a Java-based web application that was developed using the Struts2.0 framework. And deployment and application access were smooth and as expected.

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