Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact tomcat-user-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 95567 invoked from network); 19 Dec 2000 02:16:32 -0000 Received: from mercury.sun.com (192.9.25.1) by locus.apache.org with SMTP; 19 Dec 2000 02:16:32 -0000 Received: from taller.eng.sun.com ([129.144.252.34]) by mercury.Sun.COM (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA11052 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 18:16:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from eng.sun.com (d-ucup02-251-204 [129.144.251.204]) by taller.eng.sun.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3/ENSMAIL,v1.7) with ESMTP id SAA17704 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 18:16:30 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3A3EC565.889665E0@eng.sun.com> Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 18:18:13 -0800 From: "Craig R. McClanahan" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org Subject: Re: J2EE & OpenEJB References: <3A3E7BF5.C836C36B@coremetrics.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Rating: locus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N dferugson wrote: > I noticed a reference to tomcat on the openEJB site. > Then I went to apache.org and notice that the latest build of tomcat is > JNDI complient > Will tomcat evolve into an application server or is it already read for > this? > I personally do not see Tomcat evolving into a J2EE-type application server. Rather, I think you'll see folks like JBoss, OpenEJB, Enhydra, etc. embedding Tomcat as their web container. This is the same approach that Sun used in the J2EE reference implementation -- version 1.2 includes a highly modified version of Tomcat 3.0, and version 1.3 is going to include Tomcat 4.0. > > If tomcat is not going the direction of app server is anyone making use > of OpenEJB? > Anybody have experience with JBOSS?\ > > Sorry for the slight tangent ;) > -- > Doug Ferguson > Software Developer > www.coremetrics.com > 512-342-2623x212 > 512-619-9972(cell) Craig McClanahan