I think you'd be well served to viewing a recent post from Craig (o: http://www.mail-archive.com/tomcat-user%40jakarta.apache.org/msg34621.html
cheers dim On 3 Oct 2001, Andrew Reid wrote: > On Wed, 2001-10-03 at 12:15, Dmitri Colebatch wrote: > > > If you are only running servlets and jsp, try tomcat standalone, that is, > > without j2ee. The performance is perfectly adequate IMHO > > Would you say that Tomcat standalone is generally faster (for servlets > and JSP) than Apache+Tomcat? > > - andrew > >