What is difference between WACS and Tomcat?

[Former Member]

What is the difference between WACS(Web Application container server) and Tomcat in layman terms?

[denis_konovalov]

WACS is a black box webapp server based on apache tomcat, which you cannot control.
Tomcat is a wildly available, open source webapp server which is fully controllable by the user.

[Former Member]

What kind of control ? Please explain a little more

[denis_konovalov]

any control besides basic.

you cannot deploy/undeploy apps from/to it.
you cannot cluster it.

you can't install it on separate server without deploying actual SIA node to it.

[former_member430260]

WACS is a application server bundled with SAP BO like tomcat but you cannot deploy separately any other application to it.

It hosts different services like restful web service any others as well.

[Former Member]

Do you mean that CMC and BI launch pad are pre-deployed on WACS and we do not have the option to deploy any other application of our choice?? @Tanveer Mujawar

[former_member430260]

yes. BI Launchpad is not part of WACS.

[former_member198519]

If you want to use .NET InfoView, and if you do not want to use a Java application server to host your CMC, then you can use WACS to host the Central Management Console (CMC). Java goes for Tomcat.

Refer this link: https://help.sap.com/doc/businessobject_product_guides_boebi31_en_wacs_whitepaper_en_pdf/3.1/en-US/w...

[BasicTek]

this is really bad wording (referring to the BI document) because WACS is a java application server and it is much more limited than tomcat

[former_member185603]

WACS will also be used to connect to tools like Lumira.