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As long as we're on the subject of iPlanet... the price point for iPlanet
application server is obviously out-of-reach for all but the most
hard-core web-server requirements ($35,000/cpu will do that for you).
The iPlanet WebServer is substantially cheaper, and has a free evaluation
version called FastTrack. I was tempted by this path... especially since
the servlet engine is in-process and leads to significantly better
performance than Apache/JServ/Tomcat.
But after 'studying' their offering a little more closely, it seems like
iPlanet WS/FastTrack doesn't offer much in terms of load-balancing
operation. Since the servlets are processed within the web-server itself,
load balancing needs to be moved in front of the web-server. Session
management across different servers doesn't seem to be supported either.
Therefore, since my ultimately deployed solution should be:
a) scaleable (single instance performance is less interesting)
b) inexpensive,
it seems for now Apache/JServ, or possibly Apache/Resin would be a far
superior way to go. I can scale as much as needed very inexpensively.
However, one mystery item in all of this is whether iPlanet WS supports
AJP. I believe that I read Netscape Enterprise Server (different from
iPlanet WS?) supports AJP, and can be integrated with Tomcat... is the
same possible with iPlanet WS? Can I have superior performance along with
inexpensive scaling?
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