On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Manish Shahdadpuri wrote:
> I am a new Tomcat user. As far as I understand, tomcat is also a web
> server in itself. Is it possible to use tomcat alone as a web server
> without using any other WebServer e.g Apache etc.
I've used it in both situations and have been happy with each. Of course,
there's no percievable difference when accessing static pages on unloaded
servers, so one question becomes how many hits you expect.
Bear in mind that the bottleneck for many servers will be the line speed,
not the cpu or disk access times, so in many cases, your question becomes
academic (IMHO).
I don't think though that anyone would question the statement that Apache
as native code will always perform better than a JVM server. But if Tomcat
suits your needs (as it often does mine), who cares? Better keeping things
simple.
Kevin Sangeelee
p.s. make sure, esp. if you run Tomcat 3.2.x standalone, that you get the
latest version - there's an important bug-fix from version 3.2
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