Apache Tomcat is a long-lived, open source Java servlet container that implements several core Java enterprise specs, namely the Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages (JSP), and WebSockets APIs.
An Apache Software Foundation project, Tomcat was first released in 1998, just four years after Java itself. Tomcat started as a reference implementation for the first Java Servlet API and the JSP spec. While it’s no longer the reference implementation for either of these technologies, Tomcat remains the most widely used Java server, boasting a well-tested and proven core engine with good extensibility.
