It completely depends upon: * The resources you have available (hardware, management of infrastructure) * The distribution of work (a huge website with tiny J2EE involvement, huge J2EE operation with a tiny management website)
If you were to looking at how to best handle the available work completely within software within a single host with the option of scaling up later the breakdown is: 1) HTTP Accelerator / content cache (www.squid-cache.org in http_accel mode) 2) HTTPD Apache (general purpose webserver doing SSL) 3) Tomcat (connected to apache with mod_jk) 4) JBoss I've never used SSL from Tomcat, I believe the SSL cipher routines are not in native machine code and OpenSSL+mod_ssl goes to great lengths in providing performance in this area. If my beliefs are correct I wouldn't entertain the idea of the JVM being taxed with the trivial work of volume encryption. However if your website was serving 95% static content, 4% dynamic amd 1% SSL and during the peak of your day the machine wasn't really heavily loaded then maybe Tomcat/SSL would work for you. With the mod_jk connector (ApacheHTTPD<>Tomcat) that all of the SSL attributes that are available to your servlet (when Tomcat does SSL itself) are retained across the connector (even when the Apache/HTTPD is on a different machiine). So from a scalabiliy point of view if you have a lot of SSL processing you can comission a fleet of ApacheHTTPD+mod_ssl+mod_jk machines at the frontend of a single JBoss/Tomcat system to offload the SSL processing. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3875151#3875151 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=3875151 ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ JBoss-user mailing list JBoss-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-user
