Spring Boot: 'Why' & 'How to' Configure maxSwallowSize property for embedded Tomcat

Hello Friends! Today we would be discussing why in first place, anyone needs to configure maxSwallowSize property and what are the steps that needs to be followed in order to configure this property. Can this property be directly configured by Spring Boot's application.yml / application.properties file or any Java configuration is required for this?

Table Of Content
1. Introduction
2. Why configure maxSwallowSize property
3. How to configure maxSwallowSize property
4. Conclusion

Is Tomcat a web server or an application server?

Tomcat is a web server (handles HTTP requests/responses) and web container (implements Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages, Java Expression Language and Java WebSocket technologies) if we don't consider that we have all the add-ons and plugins made available through open source or commercially with Tomcat. Tomcat doesn't implement the complete Java EE API and doesn't have EJB container. Although we could run some applications in Tomcat(one could easily argue that it is an application server) it will not be considered as a full-fledged application server as it lacks some features of the application server.

Conclusion:
One could develop many applications on top of Tomcat with pluggable services and add-ons. If Tomcat + add-ons + pluggable services then we can call it an Application Server.

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