Comparing Apache Tomcat and TomEE

Posted on May. 07 in Apache, Java with 1 comment

We downloaded Tomcat 7.0.27 and TomEE 1.0.0 and did a quick comparison. Here are the differences we found. The distributions being compared are apache-tomcat-7.0.27.tar.gz and apache-tomee-1.0.0-webprofile.tar.gz.

1. Tomcat is 7,467 KB. TomEE is 27,702 KB.

2. TomEE catalina.bat/catalina.sh has added the OpenEJB javaagent.

3. TomEE server.xml has the extra listener org.apache.tomee.catalina.ServerListener.

4. Tomcat has a lot more MIME mappings. We are not sure why. Could this simply have been overlooked?

5. TomEE has removed

lib/annotations-api.jar
lib/el-api.jar
webapp/examples/

6. TomEE has added

bin/service*
bin/tomee.*
conf/system.properties
conf/tomee.xml
webapp/tomee/

7. TomEE has added the following libraries. We suggest you review these new libaries to make sure it doesn’t create conflicts with your existing application.

endorsed/annotation-api.jar
endorsed/jaxb-*.jar
lib/bval-*.jar
lib/commons-*.jar
lib/geronimo-*.jar
lib/gson-2.1.jar
lib/howl-1.0.1-1.jar
lib/hsqldb-2.2.4.jar
lib/javaee-api-6.0-3-tomcat.jar
lib/javassist-3.15.0-GA.jar
lib/jaxb-impl-2.2.5.jar
lib/kahadb-5.5.1.jar
lib/mbean-annotation-api-4.0.0.jar
lib/myfaces-*.jar
lib/openejb-*.jar
lib/openjpa-asm-shaded-2.2.0.jar
lib/openwebbeans-*.jar
lib/quartz-2.1.3.jar
lib/scannotation-1.0.2.jar
lib/serp-1.13.1.jar
lib/slf4j-*.jar
lib/swizzle-stream-1.6.1.jar
lib/tomee-*.jar
lib/wsdl4j-1.6.2.jar
lib/xbean-*.jar

Here’s the screenshot of the differences using Araxis Merge.

Comparing Apache Tomcat and TomEE

Java Service Restart Script

Posted on May. 01 in Java with no comments

Here’s a Bash script that can stop and start a Java service.

#/bin/bash

PID=$(cat app.pid)
kill $PID
java -jar app.jar &
echo $! > app.pid

The file app.jar is an executable jar file.