Colin Wilson-Salt at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> What are the differences between mod_jk and mod_webapp?
They do the same stuff, but they are completely different... And the WebApp
module is targeted towards Tomcat 4.x integration.
> I've looked at the code for mod_webapp but not mod_jk, though I have read
> the documentation on configuring Apache / iPlanet to use Tomcat 3, which I
> believe is based on the mod_jk stuff.
Correct.
> What are the differences between the protocols used between the web server
> and the servlet container? Is one more efficient / less resource intensive?
The protocol (WARP) has been expecially designed to be very flexible with
web-applications, a concept that has been introduced in the Servlet spec a
couple of revisions ago, and it has some other features like automatic
configuration and deployment...
> In terms of future development, is one going to be easier / more likely to
> get features like load balancing between multiple web servers and multiple
> servlet engines?
I have a pre-schetch of a load-balancer (you won't believe it but it's
around 100 lines of C code). I need to finish off context-sharing between
Apache and Tomcat, and that's what I'm tackling next.
Pier
