Subject:
Re: FYI: resin is the king?
From:
Christian Bauer <christian.bauer@bluemars.de>
Date:
Sun, 1 Sep 2002 12:41:36 +0200
To:
resin-interest@caucho.com

On 01 Sep (13:03), Hiroshi Iwatani wrote:


> In a reader comment on the otherwise good introductory
> Java development article, we've found this:
> 
>    Tomcat is rubbish and the Resin is the king of servers.
> 
> I wonder who wrote that?
> 
> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6290


They got the argumentation and facts all wrong, but this is a valid
point. I tried Tomcat with version 3.x one year ago and was really
annoyed by its unneeded complexity in configuration, outdated and sparse
documentation and the overall philosophy of making things more
complicated than they need to be (which some other jakarta projects
share as well).

I tried Resin and was really happy to have it working with virtual
hosts, SSL and everything else in one day. 

But, I'm currently forced to test things in Tomcat 4.x and it was
amazing to see that they made it even more complicated to setup and
configure. 

Spend days to get a database pool in JNDI running (OK, it's not J2EE 
compliant, but this should officially work, see the Tomcat website). 

I still have trouble with the classloaders, database pools, configuration 
paths/libs and everything else in general (reloading, restart time, etc.).

One last thing I noticed is the enourmous call stack you receive with
e.g. a servlet  error. Thats about 30 levels of indirection until the
serlvet methods get called. Is that neccessary for such a simple task? 

Don't use Tomcat if you can avoid it.

-- Christian Bauer turin@incubus.de