Diego and Kristian, I understand your perspective. But, my question is about security. Why systems banks use an IIS Server instead of an Apache Server over a Tomcat Server(or some servlet container), if that systems authenticate the client using servlets technology or some technology supplied by some servlet container like Tomcat?
I understand the fact that systems uses a Web Server over another to serve static content. But if in my application all content is closed, i.e., every client that wants to accede to that content must be authenticated and that authentication is controlled by Tomcat. Should I have some Web Server over Tomcat? I think that if I have an Apache Server over Tomcat, it causes an overhead, because all requests sent to Apache, must be sent to Tomcat. Regards, Bárbara Vieira -----Original Message----- From: Diego [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: terça-feira, 8 de Janeiro de 2008 12:06 To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Why use a Web Server over Tomcat? Review the list archives for the disproof of this myth. Tomcat 5.0 and above are quite capable of serving static content, efficiently enough that you'll saturate your network connection long before you saturate disk, memory or CPU. So unless you have one of the situations like those described by Kristian. Like having other technologies like PHP you don't have to make load balance with Apache 2. Its way better to make a load balance with several Tomcats since you can make a load balance of your dynamic content too. On Jan 8, 2008 9:56 AM, Peter Crowther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: Kristian Rink [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Asides this, while tomcat and "friends" (servlet containers) are made > > to serve up, well, J2EE web tier applications, web servers like > > apache2, lighttpd, ... are usually better at serving "static" content > > (images, static css files, html documents that don't contain any > > logic, ...). > > Review the list archives for the disproof of this myth. Tomcat 5.0 and > above are quite capable of serving static content, efficiently enough that > you'll saturate your network connection long before you saturate disk, > memory or CPU. > > - Peter > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Diego --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
