On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Prabhu, Deepak wrote: > (Caveat: This advice is worth every penny you're paying for it :-). > > I liked this line the best. It surely is. Thanks.
Not sure whether I should be insulted or not :-). (I'm not.) > -----Original Message----- > From: Milt Epstein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 2:29 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Difference Between Tomcat/IIS/ and Apache > > > On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Charles Conover wrote: > > > I would love to know more about this, too. I'm looking at upgrading > > a Win2000/Apache/JServ configuration to Apache/Tomcat to run my > > servlets (and hopefully fix the sporadic "Internal Server Errors") > > and I am wondering the same thing. Tomcat seems to start Apache, > > but I'm not sure if that is the case. > [ ... ] > > Tomcat is a "servlet container", and can be "plugged in" to a number > of web servers (such as Apache, IIS, and others) to add servlets/JSPs > capability. When set up this way, all requests go to the web server > first, and certain requests will be directed to Tomcat (generally > servlets/JSPs), with the web server handling other requests > (e.g. static pages). > > Tomcat can also be run in "standalone" mode, independent of any web > server. I believe when run in this mode there is a special servlet > that handles static pages. In essence, when run this way, Tomcat is > the entire web server. > > So, if this is the case, why would you ever use Tomcat with a separate > web server? Because generally Tomcat as a web server is less robust, > less configurable, has less functionality (e.g. cgi), and doesn't > perform as well as full blown web servers. If you have a small site > that's not going to see much traffic, and is mostly/all dynamic > content handled by servlets/JSPs, then maybe you want to use Tomcat > standalone. Otherwise, you probably want to use Tomcat combined with > a "real" web server. > > (Caveat: This advice is worth every penny you're paying for it :-). > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: A mailing list for discussion about Sun Microsystem's Java Servlet > > API Technology. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > > EZEILO Uchenna > > Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 6:42 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Difference Between Tomcat/IIS/ and Apache > > > > > > Hi all, > > I am new to Servlets and first chapter of first book I read says > > download and install Java Web Server or Tomcat.So I install Tomcat > > which was more readily available and it runs fine. But each time I > > see people asking questions having to do with running Tomcat and > > IIS/Apache together I wonder if I am missing something.Is Tomcat not > > able to do all these web services alone? Why does it need assistance > > from either IIS or Apache ? Please can somebody explain this to me. > > Milt Epstein Research Programmer Software/Systems Development Group Computing and Communications Services Office (CCSO) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
