Hello: I am a new member of this mailing list. I have been developing in Tomcat for about three months now and have produced an application I am getting ready to deploy to production.
The application consists of three servlets, as described below: 1. Input servlet which responds to a "get" request and uses xalan to merge an xml and an xsl file into an html input screen and then receives the post response to create an xml file on the server. 2. Admin servlet which allows an admin person to view the response to the first servlet for the purpose of approving the file for processing. This also uses xalan to create an htlm approval screen. Upon approval the xml file is merged with an existing larger xml file of previously approved responses. 3. Admin servlet which allows the admin person to "publish" the xml data into a seris of html pages which are stored in the servlet directory on the server. A pretty simple system actually. The html is then available for pure html browsing. My problem is that my sys admin person who needs to deploy this system on a production box is concerned that Tomcat cannot be performant enough to satisfy the high volume of requests on the server. He is convinced that Tomcat is loaded every time anyone accesses the html, even if they do not access the servlets themselves. I suggested configuring Tomcat to use Apache as the html server, and he agreed but came back and said the same thing. Even with Apache as the web server the Tomcat overhead kills performance. I don't think this is right. I think he is confused. But maybe I am. I need someone to help me understand if he is right, or if Tomcat is capable of being used in a production high-volume environment. One more point. These servlets must be in a secure environment. They use a Thawte certificate for security. I thought Tomcat could be configured to use a secure certificate fairly simply, but he says otherwise. Any help would be appreciated. I can refer him directly to someone who would like to help him through this if anyone would like to help him directly. Thanks in advance. -sdg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
