Tomcat Interview Questions and Answers

Question: What is Tomcat?

• Tomcat is a Java Servlet container and web server from the Jakarta project of the Apache software foundation.
• A web server responds with web pages to requests from client browsers.
• Web servers can provide dynamic content based on the requests sent by the user.
• Tomcat is very good to provide dynamic content because it provides both Java servlet and JavaServerPages (JSP) technologies.
• Tomcat can also be used as a web server for many applications even if free servlet and JSP engine is wanted.
• It can be used standalone or used behind traditional web servers such as Apache httpd, with the traditional server serving static pages and Tomcat serving dynamic servlet and JSP requests.