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What are the advantages/disadvantages of using Tomcats built-in HTTP server instead of, say, Apache?

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What are the advantages/disadvantages of using Tomcats built-in HTTP server instead of, say, Apache?

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Location: http://www.jguru.com/faq/view.jsp?EID=200067 Created: Sep 6, 2000 Modified: 2000-09-08 12:42:00.252 Author: Avi Kak (http://www.jguru.com/guru/viewbio.jsp?EID=26410) Question originally posed by Evan Owens (http://www.jguru.com/guru/viewbio.jsp?EID=123877 Regarding Tomcat’s disadvantages when used as a stand-alone server, here is a list reproduced from the Tomcat-Apache HOWTO page: • Tomcat is not as fast as Apache when it comes to static pages. • Tomcat is not as configurable as Apache. • Tomcat is not as robust as Apache. • There are many sites with long time investment in certain web servers, for example, sites that are using CGI scripts/Server API modules/perl/php. We cannot assume that all of them will want to ditch this legacy. The page further says that ” For all these reasons it is recommended that real world sites use an industrial strength web server, such as Apache, for serving the static content of the site, and use Tomcat as a Servlet/JSP add-on.” The main thing