Apache tomcat implements the java servlet and the javaserver pages (jsp) specifications from sun microsystems, and provides a "pure java" http web server environment for java code to run.

this package contains only the startup scripts for the system-wide daemon. no documentation or web applications are included here, please install the tomcat6-docs and tomcat6-examples packages if you want them. install the authbind package if you need to use tomcat on ports 1-1023. install tomcat6-user instead of this package if you don't want tomcat to start as a service.