On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > On 1/10/07, Al Hopper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Given a choice, which version of Tomcat would you recommend? > > > > We have a commercial application, based on Tomcat, that locks up about > > every 6 weeks or so. The only clue I've seen, is that it fails after we > > log the number of bytes read on the socket and see a value of -1 (minus > > one). And we've been unable to duplicate the condition on the development > > systems. > > My reading of this makes it sound like Tomcat is directly serving the > users rather than having it behind an Apache HTTP Server instance.
Yes - that's exactly right. The site processes XML based requests delivered over HTTP. The small amount of HTML static content is easily delivered programatically. > That's generally a poor idea. The first release was in in the Tomcat 4.1 days. It would have been nice to know that it was a poor idea back then! > On issues.apache.org (which runs our JIRA and Confluence instances), > we use Apache Tomcat 5.5.20 fronted by Apache HTTP Server 2.2.x. We > do not expose Tomcat directly to the outside world, but instead use > mod_proxy_ajp (new in 2.2) to route requests to Tomcat. I would not > use anything less than Tomcat 5.5.20 as we identified a number of > flaws in Tomcat during our own deployment of Tomcat that we got > resolved. > > James has a good description here: > > http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/roller/page/jmcp?entry=more_on_infrastructure_apache_tomcat > > FWIW, mod_proxy_ajp is the result of the Tomcat and HTTP Server guys > talking to each other (at last) and trying to replace the awful mod_jk > situation. The fact that it's bundled out of the box is a very good > thing, IMO. But, it's also much more tested, cleaner, and scalable > solution than mod_jk ever was. Thanks a bunch Justin for this complete and incitefull response. Al Hopper Logical Approach Inc, Plano, TX. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: 972.379.2133 Fax: 972.379.2134 Timezone: US CDT OpenSolaris.Org Community Advisory Board (CAB) Member - Apr 2005 OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB) Member - Feb 2006 _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
