RE: Which is the best Tomcat? + other issues

[Shapira, Yoav]

Howdy,

>I have updated Tomcat to 4.04 and i downloaded the exe windows NT
>installation so tomcat runs as a service. I have noticed that i cannot
>stop/start tomcat through the start/programs/tomcat start OR stop. I
can
>only
>stop or start tomcat through start/control panel/services by stopping
or
>starting the service.

I think that's true for NT services in general, isn't it?  I'm not sure
though, it's been a long time since I've set up services on NT ;)

>Second observation when I start or stop tomcat it seems to be quite
slow
>and
>also when I change a JavaBean. I did not get this on Tomcat 3.2.1

Are you sure the only thing changed was the tomcat versions?  We
experienced improved startup and shutdown times when moving from 3.2 to
4.x, on both NT and Solaris.  But never running as a service.  I wonder
if running as a service has anything to do with it.  Does it take your
tomcat the same amount of time to start/stop when running as a service
or as a console?

>Thirdly my web pages retrieve information from databases after 3 weeks
of
>running Tomcat 4.04 the pages no longer retrieve the latest data from
the
>databases. I have cleared my logs and restarted Tomcat but no luck.

If you've cleared your logs (did they have any clues in them?) and
restarted tomcat without errors, could it be that something else in the
system changed?  Maybe the databases themselves?  

>One last question which is the best Tomcat to run version 3 version 4
(as a
>service? yes/no).

Completely depends on what you want to do ;)  In general, I'd say the
latest release-quality build is best.  You benefit from new features,
bug fixes, etc without being too much of a beta-tester.  

Yoav Shapira
Millennium ChemInformatics

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tomcat + other

[David Bishop]

Has anyone got tomcat working with any of the pike-based webservers (roxen, 
caudium, roxen2)?  For various reasons I've been trying them out lately, but 
need servet/jsp support as well.

Thanks,

D.A.Bishop