So what *IS* available?

[ho...@bigbadwolf.org]

Hello Everyone,

I was just going through the posts and have been following this thread.
Despite Tomcat not meeting Nick's needs and the frustration he must have
had, he does bring up a good question.

What is out there that can handle Nick's problems? I am still new to the
Tomcat scene so please be patient with me.

I've seen commercial solutions mentioned such as Resin, JRun and a few
others. What about IBM WebSphere? Is that not a similar product?

How do the commercial products compare to Tomcat as far as feature set,
stability, scalability and speed?

The thread just got me thinking is all.

Thanks in advance
John Brosan


On 27 Jun 2001 17:28:19 -0700, Nick Stoianov wrote:
> Hey Milt,
> 
> I guess you are right. 
> 
> Thanks,
> Nick
> 
> 
> On Wednesday 27 June 2001 05:23 pm, Milt Epstein wrote:
> > On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Nick Stoianov wrote:
> > > To all of you "tomcat fans",
> > >
> > > Attacking me with these immature e-mails shows the following things:
> > > 1. not accepting other people's opinions and experiences
> > > 2. blindly repeating the same things over and over again.
> >
> > [ ... ]
> >
> > Frankly, you're the one that's being immature here -- as evidenced so
> > well by the subject of your post.  If you've got your mind made up and
> > won't listen to legitimate suggestions from others, what's the point
> > of coming in here and posting like you did.  You're acting out,
> > something a three year old does.
> >
> > Now, this doesn't mean you don't have some legitimate gripes.  It may
> > very well be that for your situation, Tomcat isn't suitable.  That
> > doesn't mean it "sucks", or that it's not suitable for others.  Your
> > situation just may be complex enough, or idiosyncratic enough, that it
> > will be problematic for you to use Tomcat.  And perhaps for a number
> > of reasons, it's just not possible for you to spend a lot of time
> > trying to figure out how to get Tomcat to do what you want, you want
> > it to work the way you want out of the box, or have someone else
> > figure it out for you.  So a heavy duty commercial product with
> > support may be a better choice for you.  But it's going to cost you
> > (whereas Tomcat is free).  But that's a choice you're making as to how
> > best to allocate your resources (and it may perfectly well be a
> > legitimate choice).  Again, it doesn't mean Tomcat "sucks", it's just
> > not what you need (and I've probably heard complaints about most of
> > the other products out there, including commercial ones).
> >
> > Milt Epstein
> > Research Programmer
> > Software/Systems Development Group
> > Computing and Communications Services Office (CCSO)
> > University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
> > mepstein@uiuc.edu
>