JSF on Tomcat - why is that possible?
ejb, jakarta-ee, java, jsf, tomcat
Solution
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.
Problem
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 =)