RE: Which Tomcat to use?

[Larry Isaacs]

With Tomcat 3.3.x, I think you will find a noticeable improvement
in performance.  It also offers better stability and is more
configurable.  The improvements in configuration does mean that
there are differences, though I don't think the changes would
be significant.  I can't say exactly without knowing what
configuration changes have been made in your 3.2.1 installation.

As to whether Tomcat 4.x would be useful, you could give it
a try and see if there are features that could be taken
advantage of when upgrading your site.  For example, the
JSP 1.2 spec allows jsp:include ... flush=false/.

Cheers,
Larry

 -Original Message-
 From: Brandon Cruz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
 Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 2:14 PM
 To: Tomcat Users List
 Subject: Which Tomcat to use?
 
 
 We are currently using linux redhat 6.2, apache 1.3.x, and 
 tomcat 3.2.1.  We
 are upgrading our entire system from the ground up.  This will be a
 production environment serving around 50GB of traffic per 
 week.  60-75% of
 the pages will be *.jsp.
 
 Which version of tomcat should we use?  Familiarity with 
 3.2.1 makes it easy
 to use the latest 3.2.4 release.  Maybe we want to stick with 
 the 2.2/1.1
 servlet and jsp specs, so we would switch to the latest 
 production release
 of 3.3.x.  Will this require a significant amount of change 
 to existing
 configurations?  Would I gain any big advantages from using the newer
 servlet and jsp specs with tomcat 4.1.x?
 
 Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
 
 
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Re: Which Tomcat to use?

[Larry Rogers]

I haven't gotten any response on whether 3.2 or 4.0 will support database based
authentication and container managed security.  The best I was able to determine
from the archives before posting my question was that 3.2 with JDBC realm module
could handle the user/password list in a database, but container managed
security would have to wait for 4.0.


Based on that shaky information, I'll have to go with JRun 3.0 for production
use until Tomcat 4.0.  Is that correct?



Larry

Re: Which Tomcat to use?

[Craig R. McClanahan]

Larry Rogers wrote:

 I haven't gotten any response on whether 3.2 or 4.0 will support database based
 authentication and container managed security.  The best I was able to determine
 from the archives before posting my question was that 3.2 with JDBC realm module
 could handle the user/password list in a database, but container managed
 security would have to wait for 4.0.

 Based on that shaky information, I'll have to go with JRun 3.0 for production
 use until Tomcat 4.0.  Is that correct?


Tomcat 3.2 supports container managed security as well -- the differences are in
which login methods are supported -- both versions support BASIC and FORM-BASED,
while 4.0 also supports DIGEST and CLIENT-CERT.

In either case, you will be configuring the JDBC realm object in the server.xml file
-- the details differ slightly, but the same basic concepts apply to both versions.


 Larry

Craig