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title: "PageSeeder server"
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description: "PageSeeder server is a core software component that interfaces with relational databases, Java application servers like Tomcat, and other system components through URLs, the Bridge, or PageSeeder Ant API."
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# PageSeeder server

Is a somewhat ambiguous term. It can be the conceptual term for the overall PageSeeder solution or it can refer to the main software component of the system (and counterpart to the [publish engine](/reference/glossary/publish_engine.md)).

As a software component, the PageSeeder server interfaces with a relational database (through JDBC) a Java application server (typically Tomcat) and other components through [URLs](/reference/glossary/url.md), the [Bridge](/reference/glossary/bridge.md) or [PageSeeder Ant API](/reference/glossary/pageseeder_ant_api.md).