On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Tomas Zeman wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am little bit confused, which servlet engine should
> I use for my servlets. Now i am using ApacheJserv, but
> i want to move to something which can do jsp and
> servlets 2.2 too.
>
> I have tested tomcat, resin and servletexec (I want to
> try locomotive and orion too). I was able to install
> them and to run example servlets, but all these
> software has very strange configuration. All servlets
> have to be in WEB_INF directory (i dont know why) and
> confirure throught XML language !!!
These are Good Things (TM) :-).
> Can you please recommend me some servlet runner which
> is free, is for Linux too, handle servlets2.2 + jsp
> and IS EASY TO CONFIGURE ?
The servlet 2.2 spec is a relatively major change fron the previous
versions, and is where the WEB_INF directory and XML configuration
were introduced. I haven't used it myself, but the consensus seems to
be that people like it, because of the increased functionality, ease
of deploying web applications (and keeping them separate), and
XML-based configuration. This is the future direction (at least until
the next spec :-) of servlets, so you'd better get used to it.
I suspect that it may be a little confusing at first, especially if
you've used servlet engines that implemented earlier versions of the
spec, what with all the fairly major changes. There may be a bit of a
learning curve, but after that it will be easier, and the advantages
will be worth it.
(Also, FWIW, while the JSP 1.0 spec is paired with/part of? the
servlet 2.2 spec -- and hence most servlet engines will implement them
both -- there were earlier versions of the JSP spec out there that
servlet engines implemented.)
As to how you might get help configuring 2.2 servlet engines, I don't
know exactly, because I haven't tried any yet. But probably there are
the instructions that come with the servlet engine you have and any
mailing lists/web pages/faqs it has; some web pages at Sun; some web
pages at Apache/Tomcat (which is the reference implementation); this
mailing list; and I'm sure some other ones.
If you want free, I suspect you'll have to go with Apache + Tomcat.
Milt Epstein
Research Programmer
Software/Systems Development Group
Computing and Communications Services Office (CCSO)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
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