which apache connector for tomcat 4.0?

[Milt Epstein <me...@uiuc.edu>]

I searched the list archives, but I'm still not clear on this, so I
thought I'd ask.

I'm going to be using Tomcat 4.0.x with Apache, and I'm trying to
decide which connector to use.  I found installing Tomcat 4.0.x itself
quite straightforward, the documenation for that was sufficient.  But
it's been a much tougher go regarding the connectors.

This is going to be for a production environment that sometimes sees
high loads (e.g. 100+ concurrent users), so performance and robustness
is a concern.  We're upgrading from Tomcat 3.2.X and mod_jserv.  The
platform is AIX, and I couldn't find AIX binaries on the jakarta site,
so looks like I'm going to have to compile from source.

I thought the choice was between mod_jk and mod_webapp, but when I
downloaded the jakarta-tomcat-connectors source and looked through it,
there's a lot of other stuff in there.  (I'm not sure I even want to
ask what coyote is :-).  I've also heard about mod_jk2, but there
wasn't anything separate in that distribution (perhaps the mod_jk
there is itself mod_jk2).

mod_webapp looks very straightforward to use, but I read some comments
on it from several months back that suggested it might not be quite
ready for prime time.  Any info on whether that's still the case would
also be appreciated.

Thanks!

Milt Epstein
Research Programmer
Systems and Technology Services (STS)
Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services (CITES)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
mepstein@uiuc.edu


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