Difference between Tomcat and Weblogic

Key Difference: Tomcat and Weblogic are two servers. Tomcat is a web server from Apache Software Foundation, whereas Weblogic is an application server from Oracle. Tomcat is capable of running servlets and JSP. On the other hand, Weblogic can also run EJBs.

Tomcat is a web container that runs the web applications based on servlet and JavaServer pages. It can also be used as a HTTP server. The efficiency of the server is affected when it works as an Http server. It has been developed by Apache. There are numerous versions of Tomcat. One can easily download Tomcat from the Apache’s website. Tomcat has been designed to be a fast and effective implementation of the servelet specification. It is an open source type of web server. Apache Tomcat can only provide support to the web components. It supports Servlet/JSP API's and provides JNDI and JMX API's. It is a C implementation of an HTTP web server.

Main purpose of Tomcat is to deal with the web content like HTML and GIF files on demand. This includes change of data, and therefore the process is termed as a dynamic process. Apache HTTP server is often used with Tomcat, where static content is handled by the Apache Http server and Tomcat handles the dynamic content.

Weblogic Server is owned by Oracle Corporation. Basically, it is a Java Application server which provides a range of services like- Http service, session handling, distributed naming and lookup, etc. Server side applications can easily utilize the services offered by the Weblogic. External clients can too be benefited with this server by using the published services or directly interacting with the application.

This server works on the foundation of Java 2 Platform, Enterprise edition (J2EE). This platform is renowned for the creation of Java based multi-tier enterprise applications. It has the ability to automate many system level tasks, and thus a lot of time is saved which would have been otherwise employed on programming-related tasks. It supports Oracle, DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL Enterprise and also other JDBC compliant databases.

Comparison between Tomcat and Weblogic:

	Tomcat	Weblogic
Definition	Tomcat is a web container that runs the web applications based on servlet and JavaServer pages. It can also be used as a HTTP server.	Weblogic Server is owned by Oracle Corporation. Basically, it is a Java Application server which provides a range of services like- Http service, session handling, distributed naming and lookup, etc.
Type of Server	Web server	Application server
Ownership	Apache Software Foundation	Oracle
Transaction Management	Cannot be done	Can be done
Supports	Http	Http and ftp
Features	Released under the Apache license. Developed in an open environment. It supports many mission critical web applications. Apache TomEE is the Java Enterprise Edition of Apache Tomcat. It merges many Java enterprise projects like Apache OpenEJB, Apache OpenWebBeans, Apache OpenJPA, Apache MyFaces and others.	It is a part of Oracle Fusion Middleware portfolio. It supports Oracle, DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL Enterprise and other JDBC-compliant databases. It consists of a Java EE platform product family. It is a fast and scalable technology.

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