[Speakers] Untangle My Stringy Coffee

[Adam Tauno Williams]

I would *LOVE* to see a presentation basically outlining what all the
J2EE crap is.  Tomcat, JBoss, etc... Is JBoss Tomcat?  Is Tomcat part of
JBoss?  They are both J2EE application servers. (?)

For instance I'm playing with Sync4j (a syncronization server) and
installed in under SuSe's Tomcat [ what a @&*^$&* mess that thing is ].
But on the list they talk about JBoss?  Is JBoss an alternative to
Tomcat?  Does it suck less?

What is typically involved in 'installing' an application into one of
these monstrosities?  (I got it to work, but "I got it to work", I have
no conceptual understanding of all the arcane terms I banged into the
keyboard).