RE: Performance : Tomcat vs IIS

[Randy Layman <ra...@aswethink.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Dewhirst [mailto:Dewhirst.M@ucles.org.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 7:57 AM
> To: 'tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org'
> Subject: RE: Performance : Tomcat vs IIS
> 
> 
> You can't compare the two. IIS is a web/script server (+MS 
> DCOM, .NET, etc),
> not an app server (like Tomcat, Weblogic, Websphere, etc.) 
> You could serve
> html pages through it, but if that's all you want - use 
> Apache HTTP server
> or iPlanet... Also, you can't run java apps on IIS, so how 
> could you compare
> it to Tomcat based on that?

	Actually I think he raises a somewhat valid point - since both IIS
and Tomcat can do SOAP processing, which is faster?  I think the answer is
most likely that IIS is faster - the SOAP engine is more tightly coupled
with the web server (using Intra-process communication instead of
inter-process of inter-machine communication).  

	I would imagine that the SOAP processing engine is written in C/C++,
which would make it much faster that anything written in Java.  It might,
however, be written in C#, which would make it interpreted and probably
about as fast as Java.

	In short, I believe that IIS would win this, but IIS would tie you
into their operating system (with all of its security, stability, and
management problems).  With Tomcat you would be open to just about any
operating system, including running Linux on the IBM mainframes or Solaris
on their new enterprise server - both of which are orders of magnitude more
powerful (and more expensive) than any system that Microsoft OS can run on.

	Randy
> 
> Hope this makes things clearer.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Naresh Agarwal [mailto:nagarwal@firstrain.com]
> > Sent: 10 October 2001 13:16
> > To: tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org
> > Subject: Performance : Tomcat vs IIS
> > 
> > 
> > Hi
> > 
> > Can any one please tell me which (out of Tomcat and IIS) is 
> > better in terms
> > of performace and scalability, to host Soap Services.
> > 
> > Microsoft SOAP uses IIS to deploy its SOAP services. Apache 
> > SOAP uses Tomcat
> > to delpoy its SOAP services.
> > 
> > Is there any such benchmarking available.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Naresh Agarwal
> > 
> 
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