on 11/6/2000 8:55 AM, "Diethelm Guallar, Gonzalo"
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> Hello,
>
> We have been doing all our development on WinNT with
> Tomcat. Since we will be going live soon at a couple
> of clients, we must give them an informed opinion on
> the recommended runtime environment. Our apps are mainly
> Turbine based and access relational DBs (Oracle, MS-SQL)
> and messsaging systems (MQ Series) in the back-end.
>
> Now, as to the servlet engine, it seems that you can
> group the existing choices in three rough classes:
>
> * Free (open source, call it whatever you like):
>
> Tomcat http://jakarta.apache.org/
> Locomotive http://www.locomotive.org/
> JBoss http://www.jboss.org/
JBoss isn't a servlet engine, it is an EJB server. They have done recent
integration with Tomcat though.
> * Non-free (price) but non-expensive:
>
> Enhydra Pro: $499 http://www.lutris.com/products/LutrisEnhydraPro.html
No reason to use the "pro" version. Just use their OSS version.
> Resin: $500 http://www.caucho.com/
This engine is supposed to be quite fast.
> * Non-free, rather on the expensive side:
>
> WebSphere (IBM)
No way in hell.
> WebLogic (BEA)
This is a very good, but expensive engine. Getting support out of them is
nearly impossible though because you have to be on their "special" list in
order to get it.
> iPlanet (Oracle?)
Netscape/Sun, not Oracle. I wouldn't use it if it was the only servlet
engine on the planet. :-)
> I would really like some comments from people who have
> actually deployed Turbine-based apps: what servlet engine
> or application server did you choose? Why? Has anybody
> used Tomcat on a production environment? Is this even
> legally allowed? Has anybody used one of the "other"
> free engines? One of the low-cost engines? One of the
> expensive engines? Any benefits/drawbacks?
Tomcat 3.1 is not production quality.
Tomcat 3.2 is not released, but is production quality.
Tomcat 4.0 still needs work.
-jon
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