Hi-Level Understanding of Tomcat 3.2.1 Design!

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Can anybody give me a high level architecture/design involved in tomcat 3.x 
such as, when a request comes from a client then what are the steps involved 
to process the request and send it back to the client. (Assuming tomcat is 
integrated with Apache (or any web server) in a separate JVM).

If someone can differentiate between tomcat 3.x and tomcat 4.x's design then 
that would help me.

-Vik


>From: Kief Morris <ki...@kief.com>
>Reply-To: tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org
>To: tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org
>Subject: Re: Tomcat 3 vs Tomcat 4
>Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 20:08:02 +0300
>
> >> Hi, I am in the process of investigating to choose a servlet container 
>for
> >> our project. I am wondering if we should start off with Tomcat 4.0 or
> > Tomcat
> >> 3.2.1. Can anybody tell me what are the major differences in Tomcat 3.x 
>and
> >> Tomcat 4.x?
> >
> >A couple of major differences among others will be:
> >
> >
> >o Support for Different Specification of Servlet & JSP
> >o Architecture
> >
>
>I think the most important difference for someone considering which to use
>for a production site is that 4.0 is still in beta, and is likely to be for 
>a while
>yet since the servlet 2.3 standard isn't expected to be finalized for at 
>least
>a few months. I don't believe the Apache connectors are ready yet (I could
>be mistaken though).
>
>3.2.1 is a production release: if I were setting up a business-critical/
>job security-critical site, I would use it rather than 4.0. If it's a 
>non-critical
>site and you'd like to get used to the forthcoming 2.3 standard, 4.0 will 
>put
>you ahead of the curve.
>
>Kief
>

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