Yes, Tomcat 6 is certainly a very capable production-ready Servlet container.
I've run Adobe ColdFusion on Tomcat and JBoss quite a bit over the years but you need a WAR deployment which I believe means Enterprise Edition for production (it's been a while since I checked that - can someone confirm/deny?). ColdFusion 9 no longer lists Tomcat as a supported platform as I recall, just JBoss, and I believe that has something to do with the addition of Hibernate support (again, supposition - if anyone can confirm, that would be nice). For the vast majority of Adobe ColdFusion users, I see no reason to go with the additional complexity of WAR deployment and a Servlet container or JEE container other than JRun. For one thing, there are some management features which rely on JRun so you'll lose a few features in your CF Admin if you deploy to something else. I started using Tomcat as a deployment target for ColdFusion as soon as the CFMX J2EE Edition appeared (late 2002 or early 2003) so that I could run CFMX on my Mac. The Macromedia Web Team had an existing Tomcat instance that was part of the (pre-Allaire-acquisition) content management system and I put CFMX on that as well. During my time at Adobe, we went to production with CF8 on JBoss for a project I was on within the hosted services division (Web Team continued to use JRun). So it's definitely a matter of what you need from your installation. Of course, OpenBD and Railo expose the whole WAR deployment approach so you don't get an integrated install procedure but you can run them on any Servlet container and once you go that route, you can run multiple engines side-by-side. You'll see several blog posts out there from community members talking about running all three engines side-by-side on JRun, Tomcat, JBoss... Sean On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 8:58 PM, Andrew Myers <[email protected]> wrote: > Back in the "old days" when I was solely a Java developer I always thought > of Tomcat was seen as a "reference implementation" rather than a production > ready server. > > Has that view changed? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en.
