Editing Apache Tomcat (section)

==History==
Tomcat started off in November 1998<ref>{{cite web|url=http://technotif.com/the-origin-story-of-tomcat/|title=The Origin Story of Tomcat|date=24 April 2015 |publisher=TechNotif|access-date=23 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180630214143/http://technotif.com/the-origin-story-of-tomcat/|archive-date=30 June 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> as a servlet [[reference implementation (computing)|reference implementation]] by James Duncan Davidson, a software architect at Sun Microsystems. He later helped make the project [[Open-source software|open-source]] and played a key role in its donation by Sun Microsystems to the Apache Software Foundation.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Davidson |first1=James Duncan |author1-link=James Duncan Davidson |date=2014-11-14 |df=mdy |title=What was the history of Tomcat inside Sun before it was open-sourced? |url=https://www.quora.com/What-was-the-history-of-Tomcat-inside-Sun-before-it-was-open-sourced |website=[[Quora]] |access-date=2018-07-25}}</ref> The [[Apache Ant]] software build automation tool was developed as a side-effect of the creation of Tomcat as an open source project.

Davidson had initially hoped that the project would become open-sourced and, since many open-source projects had [[O'Reilly Media|O'Reilly]] books associated with them featuring an animal on the cover, he wanted to name the project after an animal. He came up with ''Tom[[cat]]'' since he reasoned the animal represented something that could fend for itself. Although the tomcat was already in use for another O'Reilly title,<ref>{{Citation |title=UML in a Nutshell |url=https://archive.org/details/umlinnutshelldes00alhi/page/296 |author=Sinan Si Alhir |publisher=O'Reilly Books |isbn=978-1-56592-448-2 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/umlinnutshelldes00alhi/page/296 296] |year=1998 }}</ref> his wish to see an animal cover eventually came true when O'Reilly published their Tomcat book with a [[snow leopard]] on the cover in 2003.<ref>{{citation |first1     = Jason
 |last1      = Brittain
 |first2     = Ian F.
 |last2      = Darwin
 |title      = Tomcat: The Definitive Guide
 |date = 28 November 2007
 |edition    = 1st
 |publisher  = [[O'Reilly Media]]
 |isbn       = 978-0596003180
 |url        = https://archive.org/details/tomcatdefinitive00brit/page/320
 |page       = [https://archive.org/details/tomcatdefinitive00brit/page/320 320]
 |access-date = 2018-03-01
 }}</ref>