Tomcat or JBoss server for a Java EE application?

Question

This might be duplicate of this and this question.

I have a java application in which i am using JAX-WS (WEB SERVICES). and many other features in it like apache-commons utils.

1. My application is swing application, that connects to my server code and uploads and downloads, and sync files with the server. my database is mysql.

2. I have compiled my server code and created a .WAR file. i deployed that .WAR (containing all the required libraries for my server side application) file on a JBoss server and its working fine.

3. Now my Management says me to why use JBoss instead of Tomcat, which easy to manage and setup on a linux server. actualy they have a linux server which supports tomcat, but not JBoss. so they said to me to deploy on Tomcat on Linux Server. I installed and configured tomcat on my windows and deployed a .WAR file. and also created virtual directory for my resources its working fine[but not tested completely]

4. My Application does not have EJB so I think that Tomcat is good enough.

5. Please suggest me is it fine to use Tomcat instead of JBoss server, I am worried if it may get problems in the future, or it might not support features of my application in future or after complete testing.

Answer 1

JBoss uses Tomcat under the hood to host war applications anyway.

Using Tomcat for you war application instead of JBoss should be perfectly fine. Any commons-jars that you are using can be downloaded from http://commons.apache.org/. Put them in your lib directory and you should be good to go. Most apache commons libraries should allready be included with Tomcat though, you'll have to check.

PS:
JAX-WS is standard in the latest JDK6 updates. If your using a earlier version of the JDK then just download the JAX-WS jars. The standard reference implementation from Oracle/Sun can be downloaded from here http://jax-ws.java.net/