Hello Mike, as of my experience with Tomcat(3.2.x), you possibly may have an issues with deploying if you're using Tomcat in cooperate mode(means, that static context is served by other server, like Apache, IIS, Netscape and servlets and/or JSP served by Tomcat). It concerns mainly configuration files for third-party web server. In cooperate mode it seems to be that you should care not only about forwarding requests to Tomcat, but, for instance, about security and restrictions twice: for your primary server(for static context) and for Tomcat(dynamic).
If your web app contains not very much static resources and you not really care about possible performance degradation, you may allow to serve all requests(static and dynamic) to your web app by Tomcat. Thus, you will leave extra-configuring with your primary web server, completely focusing on Tomcat configuration. In this case, the only thing you should care is correct mapping(forwarding) requests from third-party server to Tomcat. Unfortunately, I can't compare deployment costs between Tomcat and WebLogic or WebSphere, cause I haven't such an experience. But deploying with Tomcat, using auto configuration (means, that you just copy your web app to the webapps under Tomcat root, restart it and your web app became working) is pretty easy and fast. As for Linux, I can say nothing, but I definitely got it with FreeBSD. However, a lot of efforts I've done to make my applications running, cause, by default, Tomcat port for FreeBSD automatically installs JDK1.1.8, so you should either use JDK1.1.8 API or found JDK1.3(I used) for FreeBSD and install it. I do not know, whether this information helps you or not and whether this is a sad or success story. Regards, Max MD> What are your thoughts on deploying Servlets on Tomcat in an MD> enterprise environment? MD> Is it a wise decision to save money by using Tomcat instead of buying MD> WebLogic, WebSphere, etc.? MD> What about running Tomcat on Linux? I've been told there are MD> siginificant negative issues with multi-threading for Java MD> applications on Linux? MD> Does anyone have any success stories or horror stories that would MD> like to share? MD> __________________________________________________ MD> Do You Yahoo!? MD> Find the one for you at Yahoo! Personals MD> http://personals.yahoo.com MD> ___________________________________________________________________________ MD> To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body MD> of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". MD> Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html MD> Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html MD> LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
