On 20.05.2016 15:41, Campbell, Lance wrote:
Tomcat 8.0.35
I love Tomcat. I have been using it before it was Tomcat. Thanks for the
great work!
Our group only uses Tomcat with Apache for serving up content through servlets.
We never use JSPs, tag libs, etc. I know Tomcat is taking on a lot more
capabilities. Is there a way to disable or maybe tell Tomcat that we don't use
anything other than just Servlets? I did not know if doing this might help
load/startup time. Or maybe it would make for a smaller footer print or better
performance.
Just thought I would ask.
Thanks for the great work.
You could also go to the Tomcat archives, and download a Tomcat 3.3 (vintage 2003), which
is 6.2 MB (as compared to Tomcat 8 which is 10.4 MB zipped).
To go with Tomcat 3.3, from the Oracle website you can download a Java 1.1, which is 4.39
MB (as compared to Java 8, which is about 48.5 MB).
These things are bound to be less bloated than today's versions (*), and you would not
even have to bother disabling anything, because it's not even there in the first place.
This is all 32-bit only, but it should run just as well on today's 64-bit CPU's (and
probably blindingly fast, because these things were made for the CPUs and the RAM of back
then, which were probably 100 times less capable than now. So just imagine..).
But what about security, might you ask ?
Well, chances are that none of the attack vectors explored by today's nasties, did even
exist back then, and that today's nasties don't even bother to check anymore for 13-year
old vulnerabilities. (In the worst case, you could put a recent Apache httpd or Nginx in
front, to filter).
All of this tongue-in-cheek of course.
And I'm bracing myself for the onslaught..
:-)
(*) I still remember Chuck berating me for running a Tomcat-4 with a 512 KB heap, which
was less RAM than he had on his iPhone at the time...
(but it ran)
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