Thanks for you help! On 9 June 2015 at 07:47, Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote:
> On 09/06/2015 14:38, Kevin Hale Boyes wrote: > > I'm having trouble figuring out what protocol to use for a <Connector>. > > I'm using Tomcat 8 and Java 8. > > > > The production system that Tomcat will be running on is Solaris 11 and > I'm > > not yet sure if I'll be able to build the tomcat native library. > > So, I'm choosing between the Http11NioProtocol and Http11Nio2Protocol > but I > > can't figure out what the difference is. > > > > I'll have two connectors defined - one SSL and the other non-SSL. > > The non-SSL connector services user traffic in my web application with > the > > SSL session being terminated at the coyote load balancer. > > The SSL connector services B2B traffic and it's set up for client > > authentication. > > > > > > I've seen the Connector Comparison chart but that doesn't really help. > > The only difference seems to be that Nio uses simulated blocking. > > A bit of searching seems to compare it against the blocking connector > only. > > > > So, I'm asking for help in understanding what the difference is between > the > > two connector protocols and how to choose the best one for my > application. > > There is very little to choose between them. Implementing an NIO2 > connector was the only way to find out if there were any noticeable > performance benefits or not (there weren't). Very long term (maybe > Tomcat 10 onwards) one of NIO and NIO2 may get dropped but I think we > are several years away from even thinking about that. > > Right now, I'd say go with NIO. It has been around longer and should - > in theory at least - be a little more stable. > > Mark > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
