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Asked: 2026-06-03T23:41:09+00:00

I have a simple question (and silly – shame on me :) As far

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I have a simple question (and silly – shame on me 🙂

As far as I understand, Tomcat is a web container which implements Servlet/JSP specifications. Tomcat is not a full-powered Java EE app server – therefore, I cannot deploy and run a EJB-based application on Tomcat.

So far so good.

But… I’m able to deploy and run JSF applications on Tomcat. JSF – as far as I understand – it’s part of Java EE and is “backed” by EJBs (e.g., you use stateless/stateful beans).

Bottom line: Why am I able to run JSF applications backed by EJBs and not able to deploy a “regular” EJB application (i.e., non-JSF).

Thanks in advance =)

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  1. Editorial Team

    As others have clarified, EJB != JSF. That said, you can get EJBs to work with Tomcat and JSF via Apache TomEE. You can drop it into a Tomcat 7 install or just use a binary which is already setup. TomEE was built exactly to answer the “who do I use X on Tomcat” question.

    Here is also a getting started video which shows EJBs, CDI working on Tomcat hooked up to Eclipse.

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