Apps for tomcat ?
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timvandijknl · 2023-10-09 22:29

So, I needed to run Tomcat for Apache Guacamole; cool...

Any other cool stuff that I could run on Tomcat ? 🤔

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thekrautboy · 2023-10-09 22:52

No.

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AlternativeMath-1 · 2023-10-09 23:59

Language aside, there are great projects written for every platform -
but tomcat just isn't all that popular.  Java has also fallen out of
favor these days.

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GolemancerVekk · 2023-10-10 18:21

Tomcat is a Java EE application server. There are [more than
one](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_application_servers#Java).
In theory they are cross-compatible if they implement the same EE
spec. So an app written for a certain EE version *should* be able to
run on any of them – you can drop the .war file in there and it should
work. In theory.

Application servers are a specialized area that was typically used in
enterprise projects deployed on-premise. Nowadays it's a legacy niche
mostly restricted to certain industries. I doubt you're going to find
many modern apps written for it [but you can look
around](https://github.com/topics/javaee?l=java).