> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Does Tomcat do the same thing as Apache? ie http; as well as the bonus of > java?
Yes, with reservations. Tomcat's a Web server in its own right - and a pretty fast one, in its modern versions. You'll saturate your network bandwidth long before you saturate your CPU. It's tuned for serving static content and Java web application content. It *can* serve other content via custom webapps and filters, but in my opinion this is less well developed than the facilities in Apache httpd (what most people call "Apache"). > I am using PhP, and would to like to also have Java/AJAX?J2EE on my web > page, and I am not sure if I need both Apache and Tomcat, or can just use > Tomcat? (I dont know if it will do everything that Apache does plus more?) httpd has more modules available, and is probably a better choice as your front-end if you're running several different active server technologies such as PHP and Java. Tomcat *can* serve PHP, but as far as I'm aware the integration is slower than httpd's. I've not done it, however - can anyone who has comment on performance? If you do run httpd in front of Tomcat, you do of course have the integration job to do. The appropriate version of the docs at http://tomcat.apache.org will, of course, be of benefit :-). I'd go with Tomcat 6 unless you have a good reason to use an older version. - 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]
