Tomcat web服务器中Catalina命名的由来

By Author of Tomcat

Using Catalina was my idea, because I wrote most of the original code that became it. The reasons are mundane, but here they are for the record:

1, Even though I don’t live in Southern CA, I’ve always liked what I’ve read and seen of Catalina Island.

2, One of the towns on the island is Avalon, and we were (at the beginning) considering using the Avalon Framework (http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon/) for the internal architecture. It would have been a cute tie-in, but alas it didn’t happen that way.

3, When I’m coding, I regularly have one or more cats wandering around my lap and adding to the whitespace when they don’t think I put enough (you don’t need fingers to press the space bar :-). Another “code name” you’ll hear in the Tomcat world is Jasper – that’s the name of the JSP page compiler part of Tomcat. That name was carried over from even before my time, but I’m sure it probabbly came from the alliteration (JaSPer).

Tomcat的作者很喜欢Catalina岛，刚开始准备使用岛上的小村庄Avalon来命名核心框架，但是后来没用；
作者的Cat在他写代码的时候老捣乱。