On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 12:30:01PM +0200, Bram Van Grimbergen wrote: : Can I ask you, experts in jsp, why I should use tomcat/jakarte instead of : jrun? : I know too little about the differences to make a good choice.
Then you'll have to do some research, so you can make an informed decision ;) This is way too important, and too app-specific a question for anyone to give you a direct answer. Here are some questions to ask yourself/your management/your team/etc concerning the decision: 1/ what version of the servlet spec/jsp spec does each container implement? (Tomcat 5 is servlet 2.4/jsp 2.0, the latest standard) 2/ Is commercial support important to you, or can you handle volunteer support via mailing list and self-support via research/testing? Does your team have the technical know-how (and managerial understanding) to realistically handle self-support? 3/ What features does your app require? e.g. clustering (Tomcat 5 does this), EJB (Tomcat 5 does *not* do this on its own, but it can be extended with third-party products), etc? One question to *not* ask is, "how does Tomcat compare to JRun in terms of performance?" That would require you drop your app into each container and run a load-test. A lot of J2EE webapp performance lies in the hands of the app itself. Finally, consider this: Tomcat is free, and (hopefully) Macromedia/JRun offers a brief free trial. As long as you stick to spec-compliant behavior, you could develop your app under Tomcat, get some performance specs, then drop that same webapp into JRun and test again. -QM -- software -- http://www.brandxdev.net tech news -- http://www.RoarNetworX.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
