Hi, I am trying to architect a site for a major client, moving from a Microsoft to a Java platform. I have been using Tomcat / Turbine for developing small internal applications for some time, and have been very impressed with the setup. This client however gets a lot of hits, and have up two 200 concurrent users. They are unconvinced that Tomcat is really up to production standard. I have trawled lots of mailing lists and seen conflicting views - some people say that it is a solid product, but the Jakarta project imply that only release 4 will be production ready. Personally I have never had any problems, but have never had used it on such a scale. The other major question I have is whether to run Tomcat as standalone, or with Apache - we will need load balancing, so I assume I have to run it with Apache. However, this statement by the jakarta group worries me: "While the code for Tomcat 4.0 running in standalone mode is considered to be near production quality, the web connector to run behind Apache is still alpha quality code, with limited functionality. It is likely that there will be interim updates of the web connector software in between beta releases of the entire Tomat 4.0 package." The alternative of course is JServ, and I am fairly sure that this will work OK with Turbine. Is there anybody out there how can help me convince my client to use Tomcat? ;) Gareth Coltman
