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Mark,

On 6/9/15 9:47 AM, Mark Thomas 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.

+1

If you are going to use a LOT of TLS, I would recommend looking into
the native library. OpenSSL absolutely annihilates all of the
JSSE-based connectors for crypto performance. If you will have light
traffic, it doesn't matter which one you choose. If you will have
heavy traffic, it's worth it to get the native connector working.

The native connector is known to build and work properly on Solaris.

- -chris
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