Hey,
How come there is no mention of Allaire's JRUN ??
Very inexpensive (free for dev), the smallest, and
super fast. It is always up to date, and has EJB
and JMS built in.
Their transaction monitor is 100% pure JAVA!
-aa-
----- Original Message -----
From: Kevin Duffey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 10:54 PM
Subject: Re: who is the leader : Tomcat, Resin, orion, websphere ????
> Resin is very fast indeed. Resin has some nice features too, that recently
> Orion incorporated as well. Orion in my opinion offers the best bang for
the
> buck. First..its free for all use except commercial use. Its a full J2EE
> implementation app server, where as Tomcat and Resin are Servlet 2.2/JSP
1.1
> containers only..no EJB support, etc. Tomcat doesn't have any fail-over
> ability as far as I know, but the latest version may support that now. In
> tests, I was told Orion is the fastest overall, slightly edging Resin in
> static and dynamic page returns (JSP pages).
>
> WebSphere is a crappy product from what I have heard thus far. Its very
time
> consuming to install, and it isn't up to date by a long shot. Even though
> IBM just announced $2,000,000,000 of support, their latest offering (3.5)
> still only supports JSP 1.0 and Servlet 2.1. That is pretty sad in my
> opinion..seeing as how they are so devoted to Java and all.
>
> WebLogic is a good one, but it is very expensive (as is WebSphere). We are
> actually going to be using WebLogic (to my dismay..I wanted Orion) for our
> site. It does have a strong presence on the app server market, with
> excellent support and help. Their documenation on their site is extensive
> with details on everything EXCEPT web app deployment ("root" web app
> anyways). I am having a problem getting my web app running with WebLogic,
> which is a breeze to do in Orion.
>
> For whats its worth..if you are allowed, go with Orion. It offers the best
> performance I have seen, it allows "auto" source reloading to keep the
> server up while developing, fail over, session fail over, load balancing,
> ejb, jndi, javamail, jsp, servlets, connection pooling, transaction
> management (I think), and a slew of other features. For $1500 per server,
> its 10% of the price for WebLogic for a single cpu. If you have a quad
> server, WebLogic will cost you $60,000. Orion costs you just $1500. Thats
a
> HUGE difference in price. Especially when you start dealing with multiple
> servers each with 2 cpus, etc. WebLogic can easily cost in the low to mid
> $100K range, not including tools to develop for it, which run another $5K
> per seat. Orion doesn't have any tools for development, but the nice thing
> is you can use your favorite tool to do it all. I use KAWA myself, but
Forte
> is a decent one too. The next version of Forte will be much better than
the
> current release.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
>
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