Why use a web server with Tomcat ?

2000-12-27 Thread Rui Coelho 

What is the reason for using a web server (IIS, Apache, ...) with Tomcat
when you don't have a lot of static content ?

I'm thinking of using Tomcat for a pushlet (which uses a dedicate connection
for receiving events) and I don't want to hang all the web server threads on
this dedicate connections. I don't

Thanks.

Re: Why use a web server with Tomcat ?

2000-12-27 Thread Damien Serra 

Rui Coelho wrote:

 What is the reason for using a web server (IIS, Apache, ...) with Tomcat
 when you don't have a lot of static content ?

Performance and features (logging, status, etc).
If tomcat http conector works for you, dont
use any other,
and please, if you can,
improve features and performance
of tomcat http ;).



 I'm thinking of using Tomcat for a pushlet (which uses a dedicate connection
 for receiving events) and I don't want to hang all the web server threads on
 this dedicate connections. I don't

 Thanks.

Re: Why use a web server with Tomcat ?

2000-12-27 Thread Kief Morris 

Rui Coelho typed the following on 02:10 PM 12/27/2000 +
What is the reason for using a web server (IIS, Apache, ...) with Tomcat
when you don't have a lot of static content ?

I'm thinking of using Tomcat for a pushlet (which uses a dedicate connection
for receiving events) and I don't want to hang all the web server threads on
this dedicate connections. I don't

You might consider pointing directly to Tomcat for this purpose, and have
Apache handle images and any other static files. 

Kief
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Re: Why use a web server with Tomcat ?

2000-12-27 Thread Pete Ehli 

In the docs there are numerous reasons given. Main reasons are secuity and
faster publishing of static content.
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 What is the reason for using a web server (IIS, Apache, ...) with Tomcat
 when you don't have a lot of static content ?

 I'm thinking of using Tomcat for a pushlet (which uses a dedicate
connection
 for receiving events) and I don't want to hang all the web server threads
on
 this dedicate connections. I don't

 Thanks.