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Sites, Applications, and Systems that are Powered By Tomcat

This page is a list of some, in all likelihood a very small fraction actually, of the sites out there that use [http://tomcat.apache.org Apache Tomcat] in production. For security and other policy-related reasons, many organizations choose not to disclose the server they use. Tomcat has been downloaded more than 1 million times: assuming even a 1% production adoption rate results in more than 10000 installations. Companies that support Tomcat, such as [http://www.covalent.com Covalent] claim more than half of the global Fortune 500 as their clients.

This page is organized by categories: [#pub sites with publications], [#user sites added by users], [#surveys independent surveys], and [#more more]. Please add your site, application, or system as you see fit. Don't worry if you don't think it fits here or into any particular category: we would like to see your application listed no matter how big, how small, or how miscategorized Some of these applications are simply compatible with, ship with, or run on Tomcat. Others are specifically designed or documented with Tomcat as the container in mind.

Please note that all the corporate logos and names used below are trademarked by their respective organizations. These organizations are not affiliated with this web site or with The Apache Software Foundation, and make no claims regarding The Foundation or its products. Further, in most cases the companies are not aware of their being listed on this site at all.

Sites / Systems / Applications With Associated Publications

This section contains cases that publicly described their Tomcat experience or installation.

AppFuse

http://today.java.net/images/tiles/111-appfuse.gif Raible Designs' [http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2004/07/15/thefuse.html AppFuse] runs best on Tomcat. They wrote [http://raibledesigns.com/page/rd?anchor=resin_slower_than_tomcat_fails an interesting post] comparing standards-compliance and performance on Tomcat and other containers.

Cardinal Health

http://www.cardinal.com/images/layout/cardinal_logo_small.gif
[http://www.cardinal.com/ CardinalHealth] as documented by Sue Hildreth in [http://www.awprofessional.com/articles/article.asp?p=100600&rl=1 this article].

EdSyndicate

http://www.edsyndicate.com/images/newportal_ed_logo_top.gif
[http://www.edsyndicate.com/ EdSyndicate] - a web-based service for schools and universities, with a story from the [http://screaming-penguin.com/main.php?storyid=2579 Screaming Penguin].

WalMart

http://www.walmart.com/i/if/logo_always.gif
[http://www.walmart.com WalMart.com], as documented by Eugene Ciurana on [http://www.theserverside.com/articles/article.tss?l=MigratingtoJava5 TheServerSide].

The Weather Channel

http://image.weather.com/web/common/twc/logos/onair_137x102.gif
[http://www.weather.com The Weather Channel] - and a nice [http://www.computerworld.com/developmenttopics/websitemgmt/story/0,10801,92583,00.html article] from Computer World on their shift from proprietary to open source.

Other Known Sites / Systems / Applications

This section contains cases added by users without further external information, or found on the [http://tomcat.apache.org/lists.html Tomcat mailing lists].

Agile Edge

[http://www.agileedge.com Agility Bug Tracker] from The Agile Edge.

Astradyne Systems

http://astradyne.co.uk/astradynelogo.png
[http://www.astradyne.co.uk/ Astradyne Systems] - A front for a crime family?

Become.com

http://www.become.com/images/become_home.gif
[http://Become.com Become.com] - The statistics servers for this massively-scaled shopping web crawler: [http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/WebServices/become/ Read About It]

Budget-HA

[http://www.budget-ha.com/ Budget-HA] - Technology Articles, Opinion, and Information

Cactus

http://jakarta.apache.org/cactus/images/logocactus.gif
[http://jakarta.apache.org/cactus Jakarta Cactus] - A test framework for unit testing server-side java code.

CampRate

http://camprate.com/images/logo.gif
[http://CampRate.com CampRate.com] - Online Campground Directory and Reviews; Running Tomcat 5 and Struts.

Cofax

http://www.cofax.org/content/static/cofax/logo2.gif
[http://www.cofax.org Cofax] - Content Object Factory

Common Clan Portal

http://www.cccp-project.org/images/cccp-logo.png The [http://www.cccp-project.org Common Clan Portal] uses Tomcat, and has a
[http://www.cccp-project.org/Clan-Portal-JSP/tomcat.html configuration guide] as well.

Employee Benefits Institute of America

[http://www.ebia.com Employee Benefits Institute of America]

The eSage Group

http://www.esagegroup.com/images/logoAnimation.gif
[http://www.esagegroup.com eSage Group] - A consulting company, most of our projects are built on Tomcat.

GetAhead.com

[http://getahead.ltd.uk/home GetAhead.ltd.uk] - A web development consultancy.

General Motors Mexico

http://www.gm.com/images/gm_nav_logo.gif
[http://www.gm.com General Motors] - One of the largest car-makers and financers in the world.

Institute for Tourism and Geographic Information Systems

[http://www.itgis.com Institute for Tourism and Geographic Information Systems] - A consulting company; all of our projects are built on Tomcat.

JavaServletHosting.com

[http://www.javaservlethosting.com JavaServletHosting] - a hosting company.

Java Architectures Special Interest Group (JA-SIG)

http://www.ja-sig.org/images/jasig-head.gif
[http://www.ja-sig.org/ JA-SIG] also has a
[https://clearinghouse.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/UPC/Production+Setup configuration guide].

JBoss

http://www.jboss.com/themes/jbosstheme/img/logo.gif
[http://www.jboss.com JBoss]

KnowLEX

http://www.knowlex.com/media/knowlex_logo.gif
[http://www.knowlex.org KnowLEX DE] - additional services to the contents of Wikipedia (German).
[http://www.knowlex.org KnowLEX EN] - additional services to the contents of Wikipedia (English).

Millennium Pharmaceuticals

http://www.mlnm.com/images/hdr_millennium.gif
[http://www.mlnm.com Millennium Pharmaceuticals] - a leading biopharmaceutical company.

MyServletHosting

http://www.myservlethosting.com/images/logo1.gif
[http://www.myservlethosting.com/jsphosting.html MyServletHosting.com] - An application hosting provider

OptusNet

http://www.optus.com.au/dafiles/OCA/OptusHome/StaticFiles/Images/optus_logo.gif
[http://optusnet.com.au optusnet.com.au] - An Australian ISP portal with multiple brandings serving over 20 million page impressions per month.

Popcorn Monsters

http://popcornmonsters.com/images/logo_1.jpg
[http://PopcornMonsters.com PopcornMonsters.com] - A free movie information portal that averages 100,000 unique visitors a month.

Sakai

http://www.sakaiproject.org/images/stories/conferenceLogos/logoslate160x89.jpg
[http://www.sakaiproject.org The Sakai Project] - building a collaboration and learning environment for higher education.

WebShots

http://p.webshots.com/img/mdocs/webshots_128x37.gif
[http://www.webshots.com WebShots] - A large online photo service site

Wolfram Research

http://documents.wolfram.com/common/images2003/btn_wolfram.gif
[http://www.wolfram.com Wolfram Research], makers of [http://www.wolfram.com/products/mathematica/index.html Mathematica], recommend using Tomcat for webMathematica, and have a
[http://documents.wolfram.com/webmathematica/v2/index_2_1.html configuration guide] available.

Surveys and Other Evidence of Usage

JBoss Infrastructure Survey

http://www.jboss.com/themes/jbosstheme/img/logo.gif
[http://www.jboss.com/pdf/JBossAS-EnterpriseInfrastructure.pdf A survey] of infrastructure tools, adoption, mindshare, and more from JBoss finds Tomcat again among the leading products.

O'Reilly On Java

http://www.onjava.com/images/onjava/onjava_logo.jpg
[http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2004/05/19/2004-survey.html Over 86%] of respondents in O'Reilly's On Java 2004 Survey.

TheServerSide.com

http://www.theserverside.com/skin/images/header_logotype.gif
[http://www.theserverside.com/tss?service=direct/0/NewsThread/threadViewer.markNoisy.link&sp=l28395&sp=l136428 Tomcat is among the market leaders] in this survey by [http://www.theserverside.com TheServerSide.com].

More Stuff

  • A [http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=431241&messageID=1927476 JavaForums] thread about using Tomcat in production.

  • A [http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/19/2042235&tid=108 SlashDot] discussion about using Tomcat in production.

  • An [http://search400.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid3_gci953013,00.html?bucket=ETA article] from The Value Manager for IT Insights on Tomcat's value.

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