In this tutorial, I am showing from where we can find or get the default password for the tomcat servlet container.

Note: Here we are covering all the versions from Tomcat 6 to 8.

In this tutorial we are going to test a webservice using embedded Tomcat instance and JUnit. Here we are testing a simple REST service implemented by CXF framework, It works as a standalone application.

Apache CXF And Embedded Tomcat

Apache Tomcat is an open source software implementation of the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies. The Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages specifications are developed under the Java Community Process.

Reference -> http://tomcat.apache.org/

Tomcat Download describes about downloading Tomcat servlet container

Apache Tomcat is an open source servlet container developed by the Apache Software Foundation. Tomcat implements the Java Servlet and the JavaServer Pages (JSP) specifications, It provides an HTTP web server environment for deploying Java web applications.

Tomcat release to support the Servlet 3.0, JSP 2.2, and EL 2.2 specifications, when writing this article latest version was Tomcat 7.

Tomcat includes tools for configuration and management, but can also be configured by editing XML configuration files.