You've successfully stumped me.  Don't feel as though it is a great 
accomplishment though ;-)  Every time I feel I "nearly have my mind 
around" this stuff, I realize another aspect that I am clueless about.

My inference is that people who want to load-balance use mod_jk.  Using 
mod_jk (to me) is indicative of Apache + Tomcat.  You want to do 
standalone.  If you're willing to install Apache to get load-balancing 
going, then check out http://www.ubeans.com/tomcat/.  That was my 
"guide" to making mod_jk "work for me".  You should be able to gleen a 
lot of information out of that.  If you're insistent on doing 
standalone, I wish you the best luck!

So far as "Tomcat's SSL performance" goes - I have done no benchmarks. 
 In fact, I don't use TC for SSL.  What I do is use Apache to serve 
static content and handle SSL "translation" for me.  I haven't messed 
with the SSL stuff yet at all since I upgraded the OS on my dev box, but 
that is not far down the road (I wanted to be sure I had the "basics" 
before I added "bells & whistles").  Apache (mod_ssl) will do it though 
- not Tomcat.  I did have SSL going just fine on the previous box - it 
wasn't that bad at all.  Apache came to me with mod_ssl installed and 
there were only minor modifications to make to get it working.

I haven't decided yet if redirection works - I've been having some 
issues this morning that required my attention and haven't really gotten 
to actually do any dvel work yet today.  Hopefully I will get to it 
after lunch... or during lunch *contemplates ordering in*  If it's as 
easy as I'm lead to believe from looking over the old TC 3.3 stuff it's 
basically transparent.  I don't really see how this could be, but maybe 
I'm wrong.  It would be really nice if we had the quality of 
documentation for TC 4.* as (apparantly) exists for TC 3.*.  I think, 
were that the case, this list would see a huge reduction in the number 
of VERY confused people (put me in that group, please) that post.  Isn't 
this fun?!

Hopefully my ramblings are of some use to you.  If the ubeans site 
walk-through doesn't "cure your ills", let me know.  I will eventually 
(a ways down the road, I think) be doing load-balancing.  I could always 
(try to) set up load-balancing here on the dvel box and try to "make it go".

I too would "really appreciate some help on this" LOL - but apparantly 
nobody knows how or cares to.  Hopefully you, Steve, and myself can work 
this out!

Regards,

Eddie

David Mossakowski wrote:

> About that 'load-balanced Tomcat'...
>
> Are you load balancing them through an Apache connector (the mod_jk 
> this thread is about)?
>
> Is it possible to use the catalina HTTPConnector?  I suppose it would 
> require telling HTTPConnector that there are multiple instances of 
> Tomcat right?  WOuld that be the Tomcat workers stuff?
>
> I'm conisdering using standalone Tomcat in load balanced, https 
> environment and would really appreciate any suggestions on this.
>
> How is Tomcat's SSL performance?
>
> Thanks,
> d. 




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