BitNami Tomcat Stack greatly simplifies the development and deployment of Java applications. It includes ready-to-run versions of Apache, Tomcat, MySQL and Java and required dependencies, as well as the Amazon AWS PHP SDK for developing applications for the Amazon Cloud. It can be deployed using a native installer, as a virtual machine or as a AMI to the Amazon cloud. BitNami Tomcat Stack is distributed for free under the Apache 2.0 license.

Apache Tomcat implements the Servlet and JavaServer Pages specifications from the Java Community Process. It includes many additional features that make it a useful platform for developing and deploying web applications and web services.

The BitNami Tomcat Stack native installers were packaged using BitRock's cross platform installer tool.