Re: AS/400 Web Application Servers

I'm not really defending WebSphere here, but I felt I should point this
out:

You state that Tomcat is a great web application server, but Tomcat is
really just a sevlet/jsp engine.  You are not going to do EJBs, JMS, JTA,
XML integration, built in JDBC connection/statement pooling, etc. in
Tomcat.  You are going to run servlets and jsps in Tomcat.  And that is all
you are ever going to do with Tomcat as its the reference implementation of
Servlet/JSP specifications.  The project is never planned to do anything
more than that.  If someone knows something more than this about this
topic, please correct me.

Tomcat is a great piece of software, no doubt (I use it in much of my own
experimenting).  But you are not comparing, in any way, apples to apples
here.

Regards,

Richard D. Dettinger
AS/400 Java Data Access Team

"Biologists have a special word for stability -- dead"

                Larry Wall
                Open Source Developers Journal
                Issue 1, Jan  2000


Eric Merritt <cyberlync@yahoo.com>@midrange.com on 04/19/2001 08:50:36 AM

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Hello All,

  I am not sure how many of you are aware of it, but
there is a Open Source production grade web
application server out there that is simple to install
and configure, takes about a quarter of the resources
of Websphere and is more compliant with sun's
specifications. Best of all its free. Its called
tomcat and you can get it from jakarta.apache.org.

We have used websphere for our production application
server since v2.01 and we have had nothing but
problems and trouble since we upgraded to 3.0 (now we
are at 3.5). We recently found tomcat after reading an
article in Midrange Computing (the give some source
for as/400 start scripts etc). So if you are have alot
of trouble with websphere I would check out tomcat -
all the information says its just as stable, even
clusterable now, and cost of ownership in the long run
is much cheaper.

Now, if any of you IBM people out there know something
I don't feel free to give a rebuttal, but so far in my
personal experiance Tomcat is a much better product overall.

=====
Eric Merritt
Information Systems Consultant
McCormack & Associates, Inc.
Rock Hill, South Carolina
(V) 803-327-3358 X 225
eric@mccinc.com
http://www.mccinc.com/

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