At heart, Tomcat is a servlet and JSP container: A Java (or Jakarta) servlet defines endpoints for HTTP requests and routes them to business logic code for handling. JSP, or Jakarta Server Pages ...

For this reason, a Java server that implements the Servlet specification is sometimes called a servlet container. To create a servlet, you implement the Servlet interface and deploy it inside a ...

Prior to the Java EE 7 release, developers struggled to implement a Servlet file upload component because it was a rather sordid affair that required a great deal of error-prone and bloated code.

Tomcat's primary focus is to provide an implementation of the Servlet and JSP specification. Tomcat also supports a few complementary APIs such as WebSockets, the Java Authentication Service Provider ...