Jserv, Tomcat, and JSP

[Derek Beattie <dg...@yahoo.com>]

What id the difference between Jserv and Tomcat?  Can I do JSP pages with just
Jserv or do I need a plugin?

Thanks, Derek


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Re: Jserv, Tomcat, and JSP

["Craig R. McClanahan" <cm...@mytownnet.com>]

Derek Beattie wrote:

> What id the difference between Jserv and Tomcat?  Can I do JSP pages with just
> Jserv or do I need a plugin?
>

Apache JServ implements the 2.0 servlet API.  Tomcat implements 2.2, and includes
JSP 1.1 support out of the box.  A lot of work is underway at the moment to make
Tomcat a drop-in replacement for Apache JServ (don't even have to recompile the
web server), as well as setting the stage for future performance improvements.  I
would think of Tomcat as the successor to Apache JServ.

You can run JSP pages under Apache JServ with a third party plug-in like GNUJSP,
but you will run into restrictions because of the fact that RequestDispatcher (and
therefore support for <jsp:forward> and <jsp:include>) was not defined in the 2.0
servlet API.  I don't know of any plugins that have JSP 1.1 support -- most of
them are 0.91/0.92 (IMHO, stay away from these for new development) or 1.0.

>
> Thanks, Derek
>

Craig McClanahan