question about selection of Orion

[Matthew Phillips]

I am just curious about this. Why was Orion chosen as the container for the servlet/jdbc assignments instead of Tomcat?

[Marilyn de Queiroz]

Actually, when we began these assignments, we were using JRun. However, due to problems some people have been encountering recently with orion, we may be switching again before too long.
[ August 31, 2002: Message edited by: Marilyn de Queiroz ]

[Dirk Schreckmann]

Well, just to voice some satisfaction with orion (for what it's worth), I've found orion to be very easy and reliable to use. The installation was simple and starting and stopping it is just so darn easy. But then, I also welcome the opportunity to learn a bit about a different server program.

[Lance Finney]

I first became acquainted with Orion here on the dirve, but then I got hired by a software company to do Java development. To my surprise, they were using Orion, too! We've developed a large distributed app with servlets and EJBs using orion as the primary App Server. As we've gotten closer to market, we've started porting our deployment to some bigger names like WebLogic, but mostly we work on Orion.
Tomcat, however, is more of a reference implementation. There are a lot more bugs in it than in Orion. In fact, Oracle 9i Server, which is trying to be a big player, is really just Orion that Oracle is licensing.
So, by using orion here, we're getting experience with a free, standards-compliant system that is becoming a big player in the market.
I'd like to keep Orion.

[Peter Gragert]

I was trying (experimenting) with java-servers too.
Usage of orion was easiest up to now.