We have found JRun 3.0 to be a fine product (as was it's 2.3 predecessor), and
use it in many production environments. One should be careful to avoid
unsubstantiated claims on this forum, lest it amount to FUD.
That said, most of our developers use Tomcat for development. It is
spec-compliant, doesn't crash, has excellent support (this list:) and 3.3/4.0
eliminates much classpath pain. By contrast, JRun *extends* the spec, accepting
invalid syntax (like <%= foo; %>) which means JSP authors must constantly be on
guard to avoid portability problems. JRun does not have a tomcat-users
equivalent, thus has effectively no user community. Unless you're a fan of
phone-based support, that doesn't leave one much recourse when help is needed.
http://www.theserverside.com is probably the best forum for JSP/servlet
container comparisons.
--Jeff
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 04:52:31PM -0500, Scott Tatum wrote:
> Before using Tomcat, our group had spent several k's on JRun 3.0
> application server. We have several Intranet applications that receive
> thousands of hits per day. Under JRun we were experiencing daily
> lockups. After Service Pack 2 for JRun 3 did not fix the problem, I
> tested out Tomcat 3.2.1.
>
> We eventually transitioned all of our jsp/servlet applications from JRun
> to Tomcat, and have not had a single lockup since. The Tomcat server
> also serves pages faster IMO. JRun does not support servlet reloading
> either.
> >From my experience, Tomcat has high degrees of performance, scalability,
> and especially reliability. The only issue I don't know much about is
> security. It is not as much of a concern to us as all of our
> applications are Intranet-only.
>
> Tomcat has been rock-solid for us and we hope to use it for all our
> future Intranet applications, and are looking forward to a production
> release of Tomcat 4.
>
> -Scott
>
> --
> Scott Tatum | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Senior Applications Developer, Special Projects
> WorldCom | http://www.wcom.com/
>
> Henrik Ross wrote:
>
> > What are peoples opinions on Tomcat vs. other app servers?
> >
> > Performance, scalability, security, reliability?
> >
> > Can Tomcat function in a real production business environment?
>
>
>
