In the docs there are numerous reasons given. Main reasons are secuity and
faster publishing of static content.
-- Pete --
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rui Coelho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2000 6:10 AM
Subject: Why use a web server with Tomcat ?
> 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.
>
