Tomcat, unfortunately, is one of the slower servlet runners available.
Orion is one of the fastest, and it allows an upgrade path to EJBs if he
wants to evolve his architecture that way.
But you're right, Orion (or any EJB container) adds a lot of complexity
and expense. Caucho's Resin is a good, fast, and cheap servlet runner
http://www.caucho.com. I used it for a bit before I "upgraded" my
architecture to EJBs and adopted Orion. Resin is a very nice product
for what it does, much nicer than Tomcat.
Jeff
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Randahl Fink Isaksen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 2:10 PM
>To: Orion-Interest
>Subject: RE: need help getting started
>
>
>I would definately *NOT* recommend moving away from Tomcat if
>you only use
>JSP and servlets. Tomcat is the reference implementation, it
>is free, and
>unless you need a product with a lot of additional features (GUI helper
>tools, EJBs, remote debugging, etc.) there is no reason to
>open up a can of
>worms.
>I really like the Orion server but that is for its EJB
>capabilities. I think
>the Orion team strives for making it a great EJB server. - The
>aim is not
>specifically to make it the best JSP/Servlet platform
>available, so I would
>not expect it to be ahead of Tomcat in that sence.
>Orion is a great product, but also a more complicated product,
>so if you can
>use a less complex system and still fulfill your needs, then I sure
>recommend you do so.
>
>However, should you get to the point where you simply don't
>think using just
>a relational database and several truck loads of SQL really
>makes your day,
>THEN JOIN THE CLUB - that is why many of use Orion Server and
>Enterprise
>Java Beans.
>
>Yours Sincerely
>
>Randahl
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John de la
>Garza
>Sent: 1. marts 2001 19:01
>To: Orion-Interest
>Subject: need help getting started
>
>
>I have been using tomcat for some time now and am having
>issues with it...
>
>
>I am thinking about using Orion. I don't do any ejb stuff and
>only need a
>servlet container and web server.
>
>I am having trouble using formbased security. I couldn't get
>it to work
>with the users set up in the principals file. When I would go to a
>protected area I would just get a message saying 'not allowed here' or
>something like that but I would not get prompted for a pw username.
>
>
>I actually don't want to use the principals file but have the
>usernames and
>passwds in a data base.
>
>Can anyone here refer me to some documentation on this?
>
>
>
