I can give a reason. Its called Connector de-jour. The "preferred" connector, changes every 6 months and they're bloody impossible to configure and keep straight. Building a connector is impossible unless you are a REALLY highly skill UNIX sysadmin.
My advice is this: Set up your machine running tomcat. Download Jmeter, and test it. I'm betting that tomcat can service enough data to more than adequately meet your needs. In my App, running really complex servlets with database interaction, I was hitting 6Mb/second throughput. Pages that didn't involve the database, just complex servlet logic were coming out at something like 24Mb/s. This was a commodity grade P4. George Sexton MH Software, Inc. http://www.mhsoftware.com/ Voice: 303 438 9585 > -----Original Message----- > From: Gary Blomquist [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 6:55 AM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: RE: Tomcat integegrated with Apache > > Can you give any specifics as to why you think running Tomcat in front > of Apache is bad? > > We were considering doing that for load balancing but now we are > thinking about using a hardware appliance instead. > > Gary > > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 7:51 AM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Re: Tomcat integegrated with Apache > > The connector is integrated into Apache Httpd 2.2 which was just > released as stable in December. Versions prior still require you > download and build mod_jk.so separately. Personally, I think > you should > avoid putting Apache in front unless you have other technologies to > support (ie PHP or Perl) and the tomcat content is only a > small part of > the overall site design. > > --David > > Pete Alvin wrote: > > >Thanks for that advice! Sounds like I need to run the > compat thing to > >get Tomcat5.5 to work with 1.4.2. > > > > > >NEW QUESTION: > > > >I'm trying to get Tomcat running on a new BSD box and my IT > guys says > >that a connector isn't necessary because it's integrated with Apache. > > There is a brief mention of this in the FAQ. Is this possible? > >I've always had to use a connector between the two. > > > >Can anyone point me to a web page that explains how to > configure Tomcat > > >if it's integrated? > > > >Pete > > > > > > > > > > > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
