AFAIK, Tomcat and IIS are two different things. Tomcat is a servlet container and IIS is a webserver.
If you are comparing static webpages serving capabilities of these two.. then yes.. Tomcat is no better than IIS. But being a Servlet Container, Tomcat wins the race with IIS all hands up. :) Viraj On 8/28/06, Leon Rosenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 8/25/06, gurusamy.senthil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for the information peter. > > I am a ERP developer. But I am trying to learn some web technologies and I > choosen Tomcat with jsp/servlet to develop small application. > > I am just finding hard advantage bewteen the IIS and tomcat but didn't get. > You explanation awakens me somehow. The main advantage is probably that you can use tomcat to host webapplications written in java. I seriously doubt that iis can handle it :-) Leon > > > Peter Crowther wrote: > > > >> From: gurusamy.senthil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Can any one give me idea, What is the difference between > >> Microsoft IIS server and Tomcat Server. > >> > >> Which is best and has better security to work, develop and for deploy. > > > > Ooh, religious wars :-). > > > > - Both are Web servers; > > - Both are "fast enough" and have enough features for most applications; > > - Both have "good enough" security if correctly deployed and configured; > > - Both support hot deployment; > > - Both are "good enough" to develop for if you have or can buy in the > > appropriate skill-set; > > - Tomcat is free and portable to non-Windows OSs; IIS requires a Windows > > OS license and potentially further licenses. > > > > If you're developing Java servlet-based applications, Tomcat is good. > > If you're developing ASP.Net applications and are willing to limit > > yourself to deploying on Microsoft WIndows, IIS is good. If you're > > developing PHP applications, Apache httpd is good. What are you doing? > > > > - Peter > > > > PS. So far, I've spent part of the afternoon debugging an ASP.Net app, > > another part debugging a servlet, and another part patching a PHP app. > > I don't have an axe to grind :-) > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/IIS-vs-Tomcat-tf2165043.html#a5990040 > Sent from the Tomcat - User forum at Nabble.com. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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