[thelist] Moving to JSP from ASP

Hassan Schroeder hassan at webtuitive.com
Tue Oct 5 09:02:00 CDT 2004


Chris Johnston wrote:

> As far as running JSP on a computer, you will definitely need Tomcat 4
> or 5. Tomcat does provide a very rudimentary web server, however, it
> is not recommended for production environments, therefore, you will
> need to hook it up with Apache. (There is probably a way of hooking it
> up with IIS, but I have never heard of it.)

"rudimentary"? No. It's fine for production. I would even recommend
*not* front-ending Tomcat with Apache or IIS -- doing that only adds
processing overhead, maintenance overhead, and more opportunities for
introducing configuration errors :-)

IMHO,
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