Re: Basic JSP question

From:

Lew <noone@lewscanon.com>

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Date:

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:43:45 -0400

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Arne Vajh??j wrote:

Daniel Pitts wrote:

Roedy Green wrote:

No at this point, however people might be downloading large files.

It might make sense to have large files hosted outside of the app
container.

Good advice.

Tomcat will use more CPU and be slower serving huge files.

Apache HTTPD is designed to serve files. Tomcat is designed
to do servlets and JSP pages. Two completely different things.

Fortunately the two play very well together.

I was fortunate to work with Apache Web Server in some depth a few projects
ago. We had it set up to work with Tomcat and as a reverse proxy, enabling
parallel development of development, test and staging environments. The ready
availability project-wide of the three environments, held in check by social
rules rather than deployment barriers, contributed mightily to their
similarity, and thus the applicability of test results. Developers always had
the development environment at hand, and high confidence that it fairly
represented the target environment.

Apache httpd's flexibility and plethora of features blew my mind.

--
Lew