Hello,
I've got a couple of generic questions about
Tomcat and was hoping I could get some answers and maybe even a little discuuson about them.
1) What's the difference between Tomcat and Geronimo? Reading the descriptions on their landing pages, I see that Tomcat is a jsp/servlet container and Geronimo is a
j2ee container... but isn't Geronimo just an an amalgamation of Tomcats and
Struts, two existing Apache projects? I'm confused as to why I should be excited by Geronimo. It seems like a resource drain... at least for the short term.
2) How fast/slow is Tomcat 5.5X? When I first started down this road, I was looking into an Apache/Tomcat figuration and was assured that Tomcat had had considerable work and was about as fast as Apache this days... But as I'm doing other research, I keep running across things that say that they picked up speed when they used Apache as the main server. Admittedly some of these post were older, but I'm still concerned. My application is mostly serving static WML pages to cell phones, but I'm developing some maintenance type applications that will be dynamic (another consideration is that my other servers are all dynamic apps and having as few configs to remember as possible keeps me saner
.
Thanks,
Jimbus