A servlet container is an implementation of the Jakarta Servlet specification, used primarily for hosting servlets. A web server is a server designed to serve files from the local system, like Apache.

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The first thing you’ll need is a servlet container, otherwise known as a Java application server. Tomcat and Jetty are two of the most popular servlet containers.

Apache Tomcat is an open-source web server and servlet container widely used to deploy and run Java-based web applications. It provides a runtime environment for Java Servlets, JavaServer Pages ...