IIRC the main reason used to be lack of appropriate hardware. the ASF isn't rich and the website has to hosted on machines that the ASF either owns or has on long term loan. running apache on freeBSD allowed the ASF infrastructure guru's to host the apache website on a machine that (these days) could probably be bought for much less than $100 on ebay. (it really amazed me when i found out exactly how low spec daedalus was but then the ASF has some of the world's best apache httpd experts ;)

i believe that there's now a good chance that the ASF might be able to obtain more hardware on long term loan from sponsors that would allow a dedicated tomcat hosting machine to be installed. of course, experienced tomcat system admins would need to step up (AIUI including one in the bay area of california) before the ASF would sanction such a machine. these admins would also need to very familiar with securing linux.

for more information (and better, more authourative answers), i'd suggest subscribing to infrastructure.

- robert

On 20 Feb 2004, at 15:26, Mark R. Diggory wrote:

Yes, I always wondered why Jakarta wasn't actually run on its flagship product? I suspect it has to do with server capability being too low and load being too high.

-Mark

Emmanuel Bourg wrote:

Dumb question, why Jakarta doesn't use Tomcat & JSPs ? That would open some interesting solutions for content management.
Emmanuel
David Graham wrote:
-1 on using javascript for major site functionality such as navigation. Many users browse with js turned off and it's a major pain getting it to
work across all browsers. IMO, Apache websites should be accessible to
all visitors.


David
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