I used APR for performance reasons. I was running Apache Web Server and Tomcat on the same physical windows server. I mentioned what configuration might be faster and was told APR native with Tomcat and it was faster. I might have gone from 1.5 to 1.0 milliseconds for JAXWS requests.
The disadvantages are such as when Tomcat is taken down so does your static content. Apache Web Server is probably updated more frequently than APR Native. I am guessing better security for Apache Web Server versus APR and probably more that the Tomcat and Apache Web Server teams can agree upon such as load balancing. So APR Native was an experiment for me not a final solution. Time to go back to reality. Thanks, -Tony ----- Original Message ---- From: Dale Ogilvie <dale.ogil...@trimble.co.nz> To: Tomcat Users List <users@tomcat.apache.org> Sent: Mon, July 19, 2010 5:42:39 PM Subject: RE: APR & Tomcat... Reasons to use httpd being what? We historically have used httpd and mod_proxy_ajp, but less being more I'm considering a tomcat only setup. The reason we used httpd in the past was "httpd serves static content better". One other reason that comes to mind is httpd url rewrite support, assuming tomcat can't help in this area. Any others? Dale /still hoping my tomcat download license doesn't get revoked before tomcat 7 is released/ -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net] Sent: Tuesday, 20 July 2010 9:51 a.m. To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: APR & Tomcat... There certainly are reasons to use Apache httpd out in front of Tomcat, but performance isn't one of them. - -chris --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
