As far as I know, JBoss/SunOne are all bundling Tomcat inside. Not sure where the feeling of "the number of Tomcat users to attenuate over time" comes from.
Dong -----Original Message----- From: epyonne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 7 December 2006 3:07 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Is jsp designed for use by large websites Totally agree. PHP is no doubt an excellent tool, but primarily for hobbyists or standalone type of deployment. On the other hand, Java is widely used on enterprise application. If you open up the hood and look, all the expensive application like WebSphere are running Tomcat inside. epy. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Leon Rosenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" <users@tomcat.apache.org> Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 3:27 PM Subject: Re: Is jsp designed for use by large websites > On 12/6/06, Peter Crowther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > From: Martin Gainty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > As Tomcat is OpenSource (and not proprietary) and can be > > > installed on any OS (vs just 1) I dont undertand > > > What is causing the number of Tomcat users to attenuate over time? > > > > Ancient history, I know, but I'll respond anyway. > > > > A Model T Ford is a perfectly good car. However, if Ford don't innovate > > and other car manufacturers do, people buying new cars will switch away > > from Ford to vehicles that are cheaper, faster, have lower fuel costs or > > innovations like a roof. > > > > Tomcat and JSP is a perfectly good model for web applications. However, > > if the Java community and the Tomcat developers don't innovate and other > > communities do (for example the PHP community and Microsoft), people > > deploying new applications will switch away from Tomcat and JSP to > > systems that are cheaper, faster to develop, have lower hosting/running > > costs or innovations like per-webapp memory and CPU throttling. > > > > The issue is not that Tomcat is bad in absolute terms, it's simply that > > other communities are out-innovating it so it's becoming a (perceived) > > poorer *relative* choice. > > I'd too like to know which communities are "out-innovating" java? > To stay in you example, comparing php (or ruby for this matter) to > java is like comparing bicycles with cars. > Sure its fun to make a ride on sunday. Sure it's ok to bike to the > office on a sunny day, if the office is 30 minutes away. > But trying to deliver a fridge to the customer with a bike is rather stupid. > > regards > Leon > > Btw. I'm ashamed that I don't know it, but does C# has a similar > concept to ThreadLocals? > > > > > > - Peter > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
