How is the Turbine framework?

What does the turbine framework at jakarta.apache.org have in it? Is it stable and / or ready for prime time?   Thanks Curtis

Xerces or Crimson

Can anyone tell me the difference between these XML parsers and which one is the best?     Thanks, Curtis

Speaking of JDBC Datasource...

Does this have connection pooling built in?   What is faster to use a DataSource model or to hard code the JDBC using a connection pool hand coded?   Thanks, Curtis

Tomcat vs. Other App Servers

Hi, I have been working with Tomcat for a few months now with little problems.  I am wondering if this app server is ready for prime time when it comes to business end of the things.  What do the other servers that cost upwards of $1 offer that Tomcat doesn't?  Also, I have been hearing

Precompiling the JSP pages?

How do you pre compile the jsp pages so that Tomcat will not need to compile them the first time someone tries to retrieve it in their browser?   Thanks, Curtis

Best IDE for Servlet Development?

Hi, I just downloaded the trial version for Forte for Java 2.0 Internet Edition and it seems like a good servlet development kit because of the integrated tomcat server.  I was wondering if anyone was using other IDE's for servlet development and if they had any thoughts about what was the b

Running Tomcat as a service in Win2k

How do I do this?   Thanks Curtis

Starting Tomcat with user nobody

Does anyone have a good startup script that will start tomcat with the user nobody rather than root.  I don't know if this is a security risk or not but I feel alittle uncomfortable starting with root.  Do I have to change file permissions to ensure that 'nobody' can access certain files. 

Startup Script

I am a newbie to Tomcat and I was wondering what the best way to get it to start up when Linux 7.0 is starting up.  I created a symbolic link in the rc3.d folder.  Is this the best way? Also what should be in the server script   Thanks,         Curtis