I've answered a similar question before as like yours. Here is my thoughts:
Of course you may have some reasons to use Tomcat or anything else (i.e. your stuff may have more experience at Tomcat etc.) However developers generally runsJetty because it is default for Solr and I should point that Solr unit tests run against jetty (in fact, a specific version of Jetty) and well tested (if you search in mail list you can find some conversations about it). If you follow Solr developer list you may realize using a well tested container or not. For example: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-4716 and https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-4584?focusedCommentId=13625276&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-13625276 can show that there maybe some bugs for non Jetty containers and if you choose any other container except for Jetty you can hit one of them. If you want to look at the comparison of Jetty vs. Tomcat I suggest you look at here: http://www.openlogic.com/wazi/bid/257366/Power-Java-based-web-apps-with- Jetty-application-server and here: http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/08/google-chose-jetty 2013/10/3 Otis Gospodnetic <otis.gospodne...@gmail.com> > We run all our stuff (solr and everything else webappy) under Jetty. Never > Tomcat. > > Otis > Solr & ElasticSearch Support > http://sematext.com/ > On Oct 2, 2013 6:45 PM, "Mark" <static.void....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Is Jetty sufficient for running Solr or should I go with something a > > little more enterprise like tomcat? > > > > Any others? >
