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. (By the way, you can see recent Tomcat download statistics on \[http://people.apache.org/~vgritsenko/stats/projects/tomcat.html Vadim Gritsenko's page\]). 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 \[#more more\]. Anyone can and is encouraged to add to this page: please add your site, application, or system as you see fit. You do need to register with the Apache wiki system to edit this page: simply click the login or user preferences links at the top right of your screen to do so. 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.
This section contains cases that publicly described their Tomcat experience or installation.
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. |
http://www.cardinal.com/images/layout/cardinal_logo_small.gif \[http://www.cardinal.com/ CardinalHealth\] as documented by Sue Hildreth in \[http://www.awprofessional.com/articles/article.asp?p=100600&rl=1 this article\]. |
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 \[http://screaming-penguin.com/main.php?storyid=2579 Screaming Penguin\]. |
http://www.walmart.com/i/if/logo_always.gif \[http://www.walmart.com WalMart.com\], as documented by Eugene Ciurana on \[http://www.theserverside.com/articles/article.tss?l=MigratingtoJava5 TheServerSide\]. |
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. |
This section contains cases added by users without further external information, or found on the \[http://tomcat.apache.org/lists.html Tomcat mailing lists\]. |
\[http://www.agileedge.com Agility Bug Tracker\] from The Agile Edge. |
http://www.alfresco.org/images/gif/navbar_left_corner.gif \[http://www.alfresco.org/download.html Alfresco\] is an open-source enterprise content management system. |
http://astradyne.co.uk/astradynelogo.png \[http://www.astradyne.co.uk/ Astradyne Systems\] - A front for a crime family? ;) |
http://www.astrogrid.org/image/AGlogo \[http://wiki.astrogrid.org/bin/view/Astrogrid/WebHome The AstroGrid\] project uses Tomcat for its web applications, as documented on their \[http://wiki.astrogrid.org/bin/view/AG2/WebAppManagement wiki\]. |
The \[http://base.thep.lu.se/base2/index.html BASE system\] runs on Tomcat. \[http://base.thep.lu.se/base2/installation.html Installation instructions\] are also available. |
http://www.become.com/images/become_home.gif \[http://Become.com Become.com\] - The statistics servers for this massively-scaled shopping web crawler: \[http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/WebServices/become/ Read About It\] |
\[http://www.budget-ha.com/ Budget-HA\] - Technology Articles, Opinion, and Information |
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. |
http://camprate.com/images/logo.gif \[http://CampRate.com CampRate.com\] - Online Campground Directory and Reviews; Running Tomcat 5 and Struts. |
http://www.cofax.org/content/static/cofax/logo2.gif \[http://www.cofax.org Cofax\] - Content Object Factory |
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. |
http://www.compiere.org/images/logo_org120x60.gif \[http://www.compiere.org/technology/server.html Compiere\] is an open-source Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software package. |
http://dspace.org/img/green-white-gray.gif \[http://www.dspace.org/ DSpace\] is an open-source repository for research materials. It is installed in numerous places, including \[http://dspace.mit.edu MIT\] and the \[http://www.iue.it/LIB/Cadmus/InstallationNotes.shtml European University Institute\]. Detailed \[http://www.dspace.org/technology/system-docs/install.html installation instructions\] are available. |
\[http://www.ebia.com Employee Benefits Institute of America\] |
http://www.energizedhosting.com/images/logo_3.gif \[http://www.energizedhosting.com Energized Hosting\] uses Tomcat for its \[http://www.energizedhosting.com/hosting_jsp.html Servlet/JSP hosting\] needs. |
http://www.esagegroup.com/images/logoAnimation.gif \[http://www.esagegroup.com eSage Group\] - A consulting company, most of our projects are built on Tomcat. |
http://www.fwdco.com/products/Fwd_logo_sm.gif \[http://www.fwdco.com F.W.Davison & Co.\] - develops payroll and human resource software, including HRPyramid Web Edition which is an employee and manager web self-services software built on Tomcat. |
\[http://fluency.knownspace.org Fluency\] is a dynamic user interface builder that uses Tomcat for its \[http://fluency.knownspace.org/developer/internal/tomcat.html infrastructure\]. |
\[http://getahead.ltd.uk/home GetAhead.ltd.uk\] - A web development consultancy. |
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. |
http://dev.mainsoft.com/Portals/0/Skins/GrassHopper/grasshopper.gif \[http://dev.mainsoft.com/default.aspx?tabid=27&forumid=13&postid=100&view=topic The Grasshopper Developer Zone\] web site runs on Tomcat with an interesting .NET SQLServer connector. |
http://www.gridsphere.org/gridsphere/html/gridsphere_logo.png \[http://www.gridsphere.org/gridsphere/gridsphere?cid=projects Gridsphere\] is an open grid computing environment. |
\[http://www.itgis.com Institute for Tourism and Geographic Information Systems\] - A consulting company; all of our projects are built on Tomcat. |
http://jakarta.apache.org/slide/images/Slide.gif \[http://jakarta.apache.org/slide/index.html Slide\] is an open-source content repository that can serve as the basis for a content management system. |
\[http://www.javaservlethosting.com JavaServletHosting\] - a hosting company. |
http://www.ja-sig.org/images/jasig-head.gif \[http://www.ja-sig.org/ JA-SIG\] also has a \[https://clearinghouse.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/UPC/Production+Setup configuration guide\]. |
http://www.jboss.com/themes/jbosstheme/img/logo.gif \[http://www.jboss.com JBoss\] |
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). |
http://www.metawerx.net/images/logo/logo256smlspc.gif \[http://www.metawerx.net/default2.htm MetaWerx.net\] - Australia's first and largest Java hosting provider |
http://www.mlnm.com/images/hdr_millennium.gif \[http://www.mlnm.com Millennium Pharmaceuticals\] - a leading biopharmaceutical company. |
http://www.myservlethosting.com/images/logo1.gif \[http://www.myservlethosting.com/jsphosting.html MyServletHosting.com\] - An application hosting provider |
\[http://www.mywms.de myWMS\] is an open-source Warehouse Management System using a variety of \[http://www.mywms.de/inside/tools.html tools\] including Tomcat. |
http://www.neuromice.org/images/banner_neuro_02.gif \[http://www.neuromice.org NeuroMice\] has their own nice \[http://www.neuromice.org/poweredBy.sc PoweredBy\] page. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
http://www.spikesource.com/images/spikesource2/SpikeSource_logo.gif \[http://www.spikesource.com/sitemgr/developer.php?nav=allComponentsd The SpikeSource Core Stack\] includes Tomcat. |
http://p.webshots.com/img/mdocs/webshots_128x37.gif \[http://www.webshots.com WebShots\] - A large online photo service site |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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 \[http://www.theserverside.com TheServerSide.com\]. |
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. |
Dan Hansen wrote \[http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-06-2004/jw-0628-build.html an article\] for [JavaWorld] in 2004 showing how to use Tomcat to put together a build system in two days. |