my main reason for switching was that orion is much faster than tomcat.
Isn't that so?
But, you are right, I had the feeling that it was way over kill...I am also
looking into resin, I guess that is over kill, too for functionality, but
like I said I was looking for speed gains.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Randahl Fink Isaksen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Orion-Interest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 2:10 PM
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?
>
>
>
