Hi Kevin,
Can resin run with Linux Apache?
Louis
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Duffey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 3:54 AM
Subject: Re: who is the leader : Tomcat, Resin, orion, websphere ????
> Resin is very fast indeed. Resin has some nice features too, that recently
> Orion incorporated as well. Orion in my opinion offers the best bang for
the
> buck. First..its free for all use except commercial use. Its a full J2EE
> implementation app server, where as Tomcat and Resin are Servlet 2.2/JSP
1.1
> containers only..no EJB support, etc. Tomcat doesn't have any fail-over
> ability as far as I know, but the latest version may support that now. In
> tests, I was told Orion is the fastest overall, slightly edging Resin in
> static and dynamic page returns (JSP pages).
>
> WebSphere is a crappy product from what I have heard thus far. Its very
time
> consuming to install, and it isn't up to date by a long shot. Even though
> IBM just announced $2,000,000,000 of support, their latest offering (3.5)
> still only supports JSP 1.0 and Servlet 2.1. That is pretty sad in my
> opinion..seeing as how they are so devoted to Java and all.
>
> WebLogic is a good one, but it is very expensive (as is WebSphere). We are
> actually going to be using WebLogic (to my dismay..I wanted Orion) for our
> site. It does have a strong presence on the app server market, with
> excellent support and help. Their documenation on their site is extensive
> with details on everything EXCEPT web app deployment ("root" web app
> anyways). I am having a problem getting my web app running with WebLogic,
> which is a breeze to do in Orion.
>
> For whats its worth..if you are allowed, go with Orion. It offers the best
> performance I have seen, it allows "auto" source reloading to keep the
> server up while developing, fail over, session fail over, load balancing,
> ejb, jndi, javamail, jsp, servlets, connection pooling, transaction
> management (I think), and a slew of other features. For $1500 per server,
> its 10% of the price for WebLogic for a single cpu. If you have a quad
> server, WebLogic will cost you $60,000. Orion costs you just $1500. Thats
a
> HUGE difference in price. Especially when you start dealing with multiple
> servers each with 2 cpus, etc. WebLogic can easily cost in the low to mid
> $100K range, not including tools to develop for it, which run another $5K
> per seat. Orion doesn't have any tools for development, but the nice thing
> is you can use your favorite tool to do it all. I use KAWA myself, but
Forte
> is a decent one too. The next version of Forte will be much better than
the
> current release.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
>
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