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Tomcat
Tomcat is a product of the Apache-Jakarta Project. The Tomcat servlet container also serves as the industry standard reference implementation of the servlet specification. This means that Tomcat is normally the most up-to-datcontainer as far as the specifications go. In the past, this sometimes meant that performance took a back seat to specification compliance. Since the release of Tomcat 4, though, this has not been an issue. In our experience, Tomcat performs as well as any other servlet container in the market. The summary information for Tomcat is provided in the following table. Tomcat uses Jasper for processing JSPs. Jasper is another product from the Apache-Jakarta group. The Jetty servlet container also uses Jasper. Tomcat is available for all platforms that support a JDK 1.2 or later environment and is specifically supported for all 32-bit Windows platforms and Linux. Tomcat can be downloaded from the Jakarta
