I'm currently studying connection between Apache Http Server and Tomcat. I'm confused with the 'worker' concept.
The official document says "A Tomcat worker is a Tomcat instance that is waiting to execute servlets on behalf of some web server. For example, we can have a web server such as the Apache HTTP Server forwarding servlet requests to a Tomcat process (the worker) running behind it."
My questions are:
That sentence means the former worker is a worker sending reqeust from web server to the latter worker(tomcat process like executing
.war) ?The former worker is a tomcat instance initiated by mod_jk ?