Advantages of JBoss Web Server against Tomcat

[xcenogar]

Hi all

I have been investigating which are the differences or advantages in using JBoss Web Server against standalone Tomcat, but I have not reached any conclusion.

I thought the main difference was the use of JBoss Web Native Connectors but I found that Tomcat Native libraries bring the same features.

Is there any difference between installing JBoss Web Server + JBoss Web Native Connectors and Tomcat6 standalone with Tomcat Native libraries?

I would appreciate any kind of advice or a redirection to some documentation where this is explained.

Thanks in advance.
Regards

[erasmomarciano]

Tomcat is an Engine Servlet

JBoss is an Application Server

The differences or advantages in using JBoss Web Server and not Tomcat is if you must deploy of a web-app ENTERPRISE (example to use EJB).

Example Tomcat not support EJB.

[peterj]

erasmarciano, the question was what is the different between JBoss Web Server (not JBoss Application Server) and Tomcat.

xcenogar, as far as I can see, there are two main difference. You already pointed out one - JBoss Web Server comes with the APR libraries. The second is that JBoss Web Server also has PHP support (notice the phpservlet JAR file in the lib directory). On the other hand, I notice that Tomcat 6.0_18 has built-in clustering support (note the tribes jar in the lib directory).