Tomcat 4 and Apache

Hello all.

I worked with Apache and Tomcat 3 for a while but never got around to
Tomcat 4. My question is how do Apache and Tomcat 4 work together? Is
Tomcat 4 a web and app server in one, or maybe Apache has to be configured
to send requests to Tomcat 4?

Thanks,

Eugene.

Well Tomcat 4 you can either run as a stand-a-lone webserver or
integrate it into another webserver(apache, iis, etc) the benefit of
integrating it, get more efficient serving of images/static documents
through say apache( also get more features with apache than you do
with the stand-a-lone ), then for you jsp/servlet requests it is
forwarded on to tomcat. there are instructions on jakartas site that
explains how to do this. try looking for apache-tomcat connector or
mod_jk or jk2 it should be pretty easy to find. however, unless you
have high site traffic just using tomcat 4 should be sufficient, and
easier to work with especially for development (KISS).. tomcat pretty
much has full j2ee features except for ejb container, and jms (i'm
sure i'm missing some missing features). for those you can use jboss
(if you want OS) or a commerical vendor if you like giving $$ away.
(if that's the case I can give you my pobox. )

hope this helps,

chris


Eugene A <lorus77-spam-no-.DeleteThis@nospam.mailandnews.com> wrote in message news:<f58eb6f2127badbd1c2de5b017edf910@TeraNews>...
 > Hello all.
 >
 > I worked with Apache and Tomcat 3 for a while but never got around to
 > Tomcat 4. My question is how do Apache and Tomcat 4 work together? Is
 > Tomcat 4 a web and app server in one, or maybe Apache has to be configured
 > to send requests to Tomcat 4?
 >
 > Thanks,
 >
 > Eugene.<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->