I guess it depends. The war gives you more flexibility to choose your own servlet container which you may want to optimize. Whereas the windows installer comes prebuilt with jetty as the container. Although you could can the configuration of the container once it is installed. The war also makes it pretty easy to upgrade as long as you have your data located outside of the exploded war. The war is also platform independent.
All in all I would say the war install is more geared toward production setups. -Justin On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 2:25 PM, maw269 <[email protected]> wrote: > > Can someone comment on the performance/usage differences and advantages > between deploying GeoServer from a web archive or installing GeoServer with > the Windows installer? > > Why or when would you want to use one or the other. I currently have > GeoServer deployed in Apache Tomcat. Is this necessary or overkill. If I > had > a dedicated server for a WMS, which installation would be best? > -- > View this message in context: > http://old.nabble.com/GeoServer-WAR-vs-Windows-Installer-advantages-tp30618293p30618293.html > Sent from the GeoServer - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Gaining the trust of online customers is vital for the success of any > company > that requires sensitive data to be transmitted over the Web. Learn how to > best implement a security strategy that keeps consumers' information secure > and instills the confidence they need to proceed with transactions. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl > _______________________________________________ > Geoserver-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users > -- Justin Deoliveira OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org Enterprise support for open source geospatial.
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