RE: New System Development Tomcat Tuning

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I see your point, and I do agree with it...  I guess what I was trying to
make sure of is this...  Did IBM engineer any AS/400 Specific Capabilities
into the WebSphere product, that TomCat wouldn't be able to duplicate since
it was written for a broader hardware base...


tim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Morris [SMTP:David.Morris@plumcreek.com]
> Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 9:36 AM
> To:   web400@midrange.com
> Subject:      RE: [WEB400] New System Development Tomcat Tuning
>
> Tim,
>
> By using the 1.3 JDK and playing around with the memory allocated to
> the JVM and garbage collection, I bet Joe could have improved on this.
>
>
> Because Tomcat is the reference platform for the JSP and Servlet
> specifications, the question is backwards. It should be "Is there
> anything
> that WebSphere can't do that Tomcat does?" The answer is that
> WebSphere does not follow the standards exactly, which may cause
> problems with some servlets. Tomcat 4.0 is also based on the Servlet
> 2.3 specification with adds filters, which are very important and will
>
> likely change the way people write servlets. Filters allow you to pipe
>
> output from one process to another. For example, you might generate
> an XML document and then use a filter to transform that to HTML.
>
> Tomcat cannot run EJBs without some other help like JBOSS or Enhydra.
> I really don't know why someone would want to use EJBs unless you have
>
> a highly distributed application model. There are lightweight
> persistence
> mechanisms available that are simpler and fit between full blown EJBs
> and naked servlets that can help with the database persistence that
> are worth looking at if you really think you need EJBs.
>
> David Morris
>
> >>> thatzenbeler@clinitech.net 05/13/02 10:10AM >>>
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> Thanks running the tests... It's nice to know, that Tomcat can run at
> the
> same speeds...
>
> So with that being said, is their any functionality difference between
> Tomcat and the standard WebSphere?
>
> Is there anything Tomcat can't do, when it comes to running the web
> apps?
>
> thanks, tim
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