On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Jonathan Moules <
jonathanmou...@warwickshire.gov.uk> wrote:
> Hi List,
> So, simple question: Should we stick with the default Jetty or go with
> Tomcat instead, and more importantly - why? We're going to be using it on a
> Windows Server 2008 R2.
> What do other folks use? As Jetty already-works for us, is there a reason
> to justify spending the time swapping to a unfamiliar package?
>
> I'm surprised this hasn't been asked more often - a search of the archives
> only found it once and the answer was simply "use tomcat" with no
> explanation of why.
>
The installation package uses Jetty for convenience, it's small and
provides just the functionality needed for people to
quickly try out GeoServer.
At the same time, the Jetty we embed is 6.1.8, which is 4 years old, as
such it has received no performance or
security upgrades since back then.
>From the point of view of container comparison, I can't tell that Tomcat is
going to be faster, but the general impression
is that it's by far more used, and indeed my company uses it for all
deployments, with no complaints.
Cheers
Andrea
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