It certainly seems that way but this is the competition that JBoss has to go
up against. Their thread pooling/caching looks pretty good too.
Jay Walters wrote:
> I don't believe that Tomcat is known for it's speed. Resin and Orion are
> the speed demons on the JSP front.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Backhouse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 6:26 PM
> To: jBoss Developer
> Subject: [jBoss-Dev] Caomparison with Orion
>
> I have just spent a little time comparing the performace of Orion
> compared to JBoss with the Embedded Tomcat module:
>
> The great news is that I can take the exact same ear file and deploy it
> in both JBoss/Tomcat and Orion with no mods at all. (J2EE really does
> show promise !!)
>
> The not so great news is that Orion is noticebly faster. I didn't do
> anything detailed in analysis but Orion was definitely faster at
> delivering the pages back to the browser. On looking at Memory usage
> (Just what win2k reported) they seemed the same but the interesting
> thing was the number of threads used. Orion seems to resuse threads alot
> more than JBoss/Tomcat combined. Now this may be configurable and so the
> test really might not be fair. I know that some of the pooling stuff can
> be set up for Tomcat pretty easily. I just thought people might be
> interested in some basic observations. The thing that really seems to
> let Tomcat down is how long it takes to compile jsps. Orion beats its
> ass. Pre-compilation should solve that though.
>
> Richard Backhouse
> Oak Grove Software
