Webservices, tomcat, and Apache

dougnc · 04-22-2005, 03:29 PM

I'm trying to get webservices running under SuSE Linux 9.0. Apache is running html and perl cgi fine. I believe, tho, that in order to be a webservices provider I have to install tomcat.

Is webservices the same as a servlet in tomcat? Is that what I need to get running?

Can I just download tomcat from Apache-Jakarta?

Any help or pointers here would be greatly appreciated!

Doug

imemyself · 04-22-2005, 05:14 PM

I'm not terribly familiar with Java Webservices, but I don't think they are the same thing as servlets. I think servlets are like the code that's basically generated by the app server from a JSP file(a servlet looks more like a regular Java program) and can be hand written. I've heard Axis talked about with Tomcat and webservices, so that might be something that you need or use.

dougnc · 04-24-2005, 03:50 PM

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Originally posted by imemyself
I'm not terribly familiar with Java Webservices, but I don't think they are the same thing as servlets. I think servlets are like the code that's basically generated by the app server from a JSP file(a servlet looks more like a regular Java program) and can be hand written. I've heard Axis talked about with Tomcat and webservices, so that might be something that you need or use.

I think Axis is just a way of writing a webservice in C or something.