Cheers for that.
As far as I can understand, Jetty is as good, and lighter...just not the
industry standard.
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Von: Ben Caradoc-Davies <[email protected]>
An: Robert Buckley <[email protected]>
CC: "[email protected]"
<[email protected]>
Gesendet: Mittwoch, den 13. Juli 2011, 9:31:09 Uhr
Betreff: Re: [Geoserver-users] Does geoserver run better in Tomcat6?
Robert,
GeoServer is a Java servlet, and so must be deployed within a servlet container:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Servlet
Apache Tomcat is a well-known and widely-deployed open source Java servlet
container. It is included as the standard servlet container in many Linux
distributions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Tomcat
There are other more lightweight servlet containers such as Jetty, which is
shipped with GeoServer to allow anyone to use it without deploying Tomcat. By
comparison, Tomcat is heavier (larger, slower startup), but has more features,
including a manager servlet, that ease servlet deployment; as far as I know
Tomcat is the most widely used servlet container. We use it in all our
production deployments. It is the default choice for anyone seeking a
production
servlet container.
In a nutshell: Tomcat is the de-facto industry standard servlet container.
Kind regards,
Ben.
On 13/07/11 14:09, Robert Buckley wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have to explain why Tomcat6 is installed on my Linux box and why geoserver
>runs through it.
>
> I set it up this way as I had read this is how to do it if one wants to
> create
>a production environment. Unfortunately I can´t really say "why" it should be
>done.
>
> Can anyone enlighten me?
>
> Yours,
>
> Robert
>
-- Ben Caradoc-Davies <[email protected]>
Software Engineering Team Leader
CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering
Australian Resources Research Centre
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