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krackmoe
krackmoe

Reputation: 1763

Tomcat vs Glassfish, is jpa with both possible?

Hi i often read about this topic the following: 

"Tomcat is a servlet container only, which simply means that it will not 
provide support for Java EE features."

JPA for example is a Java EE feature. Which means it is supported of Glassfish. But i can also use JPA on a tomcat!

So why can i do that? I thought that i can just stick to Servlet/JSP with a tomcat.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 469

Answers (1)

Tomasz Nurkiewicz
Tomasz Nurkiewicz

Reputation: 340933

JPA is part of Java EE, which means every Java EE container should support it. Tomcat does not support JPA out-of-the-box. You can use JPA in applications deployed on Tomcat only if these applications embed some JPA implementation.

Typically you'll find Spring applications with Hibernate or EclipseLink embedded, both providing JPA API. Tomcat is completely unaware of that, it's user code as far as he's concerned.

See also

  • Tom EE - "Java EE 6 Web Profile certification where Tomcat is top dog"

Upvotes: 3

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