At 12/9/2002 07:37 PM, you wrote:
Notice that I didn't ask a question JOEL BERGMAN (are you a Jakarta developer). I simply chimed in when someone else expressed dissatisfaction with this list. I have been disappointed and frustrated by the **** that is called documentation. I stopped trying to get tomcat to work properly over a year ago. Recently I looked into it again, and noticed little to no improvement.I too have been writing commercial software for over twenty years. I on the other hand have been able to use Tomcat in the company I work for with great success. We recently used it to replace an extremely expensive commercial appserver that had inferior performance to Tomcat, but with a superior number of headaches. Using Tomcat: users are pleased. developers are pleased. director is pleased. CFO is pleased. None of the above care about the quality of Tomcat's documentation. The only entity not pleased is the appserver vendor whose license we're not renewing.
Note that my background is technical, with over twenty years of building commercial quality software. I don't believe in a lot of pie-in-the-sky ideals in terms of software development. I rate software on three important criteria: does it do what it is intended, can it be used easily, and is it maintainable.
In terms of tomcat, I give it a grade of incomplete on all three of the above. I can not tell if it does what its supposed to because I can't get it to work with a reasonable amount of effort.
Here if my contribution to Jarkata and people looking for a low cost Java solution. Use JRUN (discalimer: I am not affiliated with Macromedia in any way). It is under $1000 and includes a full J2EE implementation (JSP, servlets, EJB). It looks like the installer does all the stuff that mod_jk, mod_jk2, and mod_web are supposed to (if anyone could get them to work). A development version is available for free.
Mike
Our company has a very young, inexperienced appserver administrator who had Tomcat up an running in a matter of minutes (literally) without a CD library of professionally drafted set of documentation. Instead of complaining, why not post the specific nature of your problems and let people here help you?
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