Tomcat functionality question

[John Thorhauer <jt...@phoenixcolor.com>]

I have a couple of questions regarding Tomcat.

1.  Does tocmat support ssl connections?  If not, is ssl going to be
added to the current version of Tomcat or will it wait and be added via
catalina?

2.  I am going to write an application that uses Tomcat and has almost
no plain .html files.  Most files will be either servlets or .jsp
files.  This application could get bursts of very heavy usage.  So my
question is "Is there still a performance gain by using Apache as the
"web server" and tomcat as just the "servlet engine" if almost every
file that will get heavy usage is processed through Tomcat anyways or is
Apache still criticle to performance even in that senario"?

Thanks for the input,
John Thorhuaer
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** John Thorhauer
** Web Developer
** Phoenix Color Corp.
** jthorhauer@phoenixcolor.com
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Re: Tomcat functionality question

[Robert Puffer <pb...@uswest.net>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig R. McClanahan" <Cr...@eng.sun.com>
To: <ge...@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 4:46 PM
Subject: Re: Tomcat functionality question


> John Thorhauer wrote:
>
> > I have a couple of questions regarding Tomcat.
> >
> > 1.  Does tocmat support ssl connections?
>
> Tomcat stand-alone does not currently support SSL connections.  However,
if
> you are running Tomcat behind an SSL-enabled version of Apache, you can
have
> SSL support for your servlets that way.
>
> >  If not, is ssl going to be
> > added to the current version of Tomcat or will it wait and be added via
> > catalina?
> >
>
> I know there are some efforts underway for an SSL-based connector for
> Catalina.  If someone wants to build one for Tomcat 3.x as well, it would
be
> fine.
>
> >
> > 2.  I am going to write an application that uses Tomcat and has almost
> > no plain .html files.  Most files will be either servlets or .jsp
> > files.  This application could get bursts of very heavy usage.  So my
> > question is "Is there still a performance gain by using Apache as the
> > "web server" and tomcat as just the "servlet engine" if almost every
> > file that will get heavy usage is processed through Tomcat anyways or is
> > Apache still criticle to performance even in that senario"?
> >
>
> The answer to this, like most benchmark questions, is "it depends on your
> application."  Even for a mostly dynamic site there may be some benefits
to
> using Apache, and such benefits will increase in Tomcat 3.2 because a lot
of
> effort has gone into making the Apache connector run faster.  In some
> environments, it might be well worth the configuration effort -- in
others,
> throwing a little more hardware at it may be cheaper.  There is no clear
cut
> answer.
>
> >
> > Thanks for the input,
> > John Thorhuaer
> >
>
> Craig McClanahan
>
>
>
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Re: Tomcat functionality question

[John Thorhauer <jt...@phoenixcolor.com>]

"Craig R. McClanahan" wrote:
> 
> The answer to this, like most benchmark questions, is "it depends on your
> application."  Even for a mostly dynamic site there may be some benefits to
> using Apache, and such benefits will increase in Tomcat 3.2 because a lot of
> effort has gone into making the Apache connector run faster.  

Thanks for the feedback.  I really appreciate it.

John Thorhauer
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********************************
** John Thorhauer
** Web Developer
** Phoenix Color Corp.
** jthorhauer@phoenixcolor.com
********************************

Re: Tomcat functionality question

["Craig R. McClanahan" <Cr...@eng.sun.com>]

John Thorhauer wrote:

> I have a couple of questions regarding Tomcat.
>
> 1.  Does tocmat support ssl connections?

Tomcat stand-alone does not currently support SSL connections.  However, if
you are running Tomcat behind an SSL-enabled version of Apache, you can have
SSL support for your servlets that way.

>  If not, is ssl going to be
> added to the current version of Tomcat or will it wait and be added via
> catalina?
>

I know there are some efforts underway for an SSL-based connector for
Catalina.  If someone wants to build one for Tomcat 3.x as well, it would be
fine.

>
> 2.  I am going to write an application that uses Tomcat and has almost
> no plain .html files.  Most files will be either servlets or .jsp
> files.  This application could get bursts of very heavy usage.  So my
> question is "Is there still a performance gain by using Apache as the
> "web server" and tomcat as just the "servlet engine" if almost every
> file that will get heavy usage is processed through Tomcat anyways or is
> Apache still criticle to performance even in that senario"?
>

The answer to this, like most benchmark questions, is "it depends on your
application."  Even for a mostly dynamic site there may be some benefits to
using Apache, and such benefits will increase in Tomcat 3.2 because a lot of
effort has gone into making the Apache connector run faster.  In some
environments, it might be well worth the configuration effort -- in others,
throwing a little more hardware at it may be cheaper.  There is no clear cut
answer.

>
> Thanks for the input,
> John Thorhuaer
>

Craig McClanahan