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Can anyone tell me the advantages and disadvantages between Tomcat, JRun, and JServ for Apache Web Server?

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Can anyone tell me the advantages and disadvantages between Tomcat, JRun, and JServ for Apache Web Server?

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Location: http://www.jguru.com/faq/view.jsp?EID=497500 Created: Sep 15, 2001 Author: Christopher Schultz (http://www.jguru.com/guru/viewbio.jsp?EID=138382) Question originally posed by T _ (http://www.jguru.com/guru/viewbio.jsp?EID=495999 Here’s some quick-n-dirty facts: ProductProsCons Tomcat • Free as in both beer and speech • Active open-source development effort • Very current in terms of servlet API compliance • Not the fastest implementation on the planet • You’re on your own for support JRun • Free as in beer for developers • Relatively speedy • Supported by Allaire (Macromedia) • Costs money for production use • Versions that I’ve used (pre-3.0) had lots of configuration headaches • Slightly behind the times with updates (compared to open source projects) Apache JServ Free as in both beer and speech • No longer in active development (Tomcat inherited this effort) • Has some thread-leaking issues, in my experience • Only supports servlet API 2.0 (not later) • You’re on your own