Jess Holle wrote: > David Boreham wrote: >> I think you also need to factor in the labor cost to manage two >> different servers. I know that in our production deployments we could >> buy many many machines for the cost of the time we've spent trying to >> make AJP work. Tomcat could be 10x slower than Apache and I'd still >> use it to avoid the hassle. > Of course if you need load balancing across multiple Tomcats you either > need Apache or a dedicated load balancer appliance. > > Also Apache 2.2 allows easy configurable authentication (or a single > resource/URL) against multiple authentication repositories, e.g. > multiple LDAPs. Last I investigated Tomcat did not.
The new combined realm (as of 6.0.19) will let you do this. No Tomcat only load balancing though. Mark > I'd love to see a simple world of only needing Tomcat and no front-end > web server. For starters Tomcat should provide high-performance > load-balancing from one "front-end" Tomcat to multiple "backend" Tomcats > and easy authentication against multiple LDAPs. After that there are > other issues, e.g. security providers that provide Apache but not Tomcat > plug-ins, but these would seemingly impact far fewer folk. In fact, I'd > bet fairly few of us need the multi-LDAP stuff -- just giving good, > high-performance load balancing over Tomcats by a Tomcat would be huge. > > -- > Jess Holle > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
