Pid wrote:
On 22/11/2011 16:21, Caldarale, Charles R wrote:
From: Shanti Suresh [mailto:sha...@umich.edu]
Subject: Re: tomcat http connector
Tomcat's built-in HTTP connector can be used for production if
your production traffic is light. It is advisable to front-end
Tomcat with Apache.
Sorry, that's just BS. Back in the Tomcat 3 or 4 days, it was true to some
extent, but performance of Tomcat without httpd has been demonstrated to be
equal or better.
I agree with Chuck.
Apache's I/O is superior to Tomcat.
Another incorrect statement; with Tomcat's APR connector, the I/O is identical
- since it's all the same code. Regardless, as Pid pointed out, overall
performance is rarely limited by the connector; the application architecture is
the critical factor.
+1
front-ending Tomcat with Apache also gives you access to the
powerful traffic filtering, security and other modules that
are available for Apache.
Tsk, tsk.
-1. (to the tsk, tsk I mean). Because that part is true. There are a whole bunch of
add-on modules for Apache httpd which have no equivalent (yet) in the Tomcat world.
(Or they are much more difficult to find).
p
And introduces configuration complexity and a greater opportunity to create
attack vectors due to seemingly innocuous configuration errors.
- Chuck
But that's also true.
So the real answer is, as usual, "it depends"..
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