Tomcat alone vs Apache/Tomcat

What kind of improvement, if any, is Tomcat & Apache over a stand-alone Tomcat webserver??? At most I'm doing on a few Jsps or one or two servlets that do heavy-duty Enterprise critical work. (i.e. A single servlet to call a serious stored proc)

Can I improve my speed by using Apache with Tomcat?

Of course, Apache + Tomcat got better performance, since Apache can respond to the static html pages, while Tomcat is working on dynamic contents such as JSPs and Servlets by using its correspondin engines...

If I am not wrong, the http request comes to Apache web server first and it checks whether it is for dynamic contents or not. If it is so, Apache web server forward it to Tomcat...

Since they two work on different tasks, the jobs are shared... If a stand-alone Tomcat is used for both static and dynamic contents, it should be work hard to respond the users...

Hope it helps...

Of course, Apache + Tomcat got better performance

There are many people who will refute that. If you search through this forum for previous topics on this subject you will find that many people believe that Tomcat standalone can match the performance of the hybrid configuration, and that the only reason to use the Apache hybrid these days is if you require the use of some Apache-only module that is not available with Tomcat.

ok i dont understand the webserver - servlet container communication. So this muct be pretty basic. I guess tomcat must be having some limitations on the number of user threads it can spawn for the incoming requests.
So would'nt that become the bottleneck when it comes to increasing performance / serving more requests.

How does having Apache web server performance help here.

If my web application consists of more Jsp & Servlets with very little html, shall i go for just Tomcat standalone?

Other than serving static html pages is there any other benefits of using Apache with Tomcat?

Originally posted by Bear Bibeault:
There are many people who will refute that. If you search through this forum for previous topics on this subject you will find that many people believe that Tomcat standalone can match the performance of the hybrid configuration, and that the only reason to use the Apache hybrid these days is if you require the use of some Apache-only module that is not available with Tomcat.

Oh really, Bear? I don't know that the performance of the hybrid configuration can be matched by Tomcat Standalone. Thanks for the correctness, on my wrong opinion...

So do u think that the modules that is available only in Apache will be integrated to Tomcat in the future? Or is it not possible to do so, because many other factors might be considered?

Thanks, Bear...

Originally posted by Rajan Chinna:
If my web application consists of more Jsp & Servlets with very little html, shall i go for just Tomcat standalone?

Other than serving static html pages is there any other benefits of using Apache with Tomcat?

Since Bear confirmed that Tomcat standalone is better in performance, whatever it is for static contents or dynamic ones... If we do not need some additional modules from Apache Web Server, we should go ahead with Tomcat standalone...

But I am also doubting about the issue of responding to static contents and dynamic contents... If we use Apache Web Server plus Tomcat, will it be some kinda load balancing between static contents and dynamic contents?

I do hope Budi and Paul might see this thread and reply us with the great explanation about Apache Web Server and Tomcat...

Since Bear confirmed that Tomcat standalone is better in performance

I confirmed no such thing. Please reread my post, then find the posts I mentioned.

I will say that I use Tomcat standalone in most of my configurations and I have yet to run into a performance problem where I felt a need to investigate alternative configurations. But I'd hardly call my qualitative observations definitive confirmation.

would it make any difference in performance between apache and tomcat vs tomcat alone for a large user bases? For the systems we talked about here, what kind of load the website has to bear?

Sincerely
xue shen

Originally posted by Bear Bibeault:

I confirmed no such thing. Please reread my post, then find the posts I mentioned.

I will say that I use Tomcat standalone in most of my configurations and I have yet to run into a performance problem where I felt a need to investigate alternative configurations. But I'd hardly call my qualitative observations definitive confirmation.

I got it, Bear... Hope Rajan Chinna can also figure it out what you actually mean in your posts...

Thanks for the explanation, Bear...

Originally posted by xue shen:
would it make any difference in performance between apache and tomcat vs tomcat alone for a large user bases? For the systems we talked about here, what kind of load the website has to bear?

Sincerely
xue shen

This link will help you ..

http://www.doesciencegrid.org/Grid/public/events/GPDW/slides/webserver.ppt

Originally posted by Somkiat Puisungnoen:

This link will help you ..

http://www.doesciencegrid.org/Grid/public/events/GPDW/slides/webserver.ppt

Somkiat,
I don't see any content about the performanace issue of apache and tomcat vs tomcat alone in the link to Power Point slide that you provided... Did you give a wrong link or should it be sthing else other than that link?

I skimmed throught the slides already and it just explains about the nature of apache and tomcat vs tomcat alone... And the internal configuration about them...

Bear Bibeault

the only reason to use the Apache hybrid these days is if you require the use of some Apache-only module that is not available with Tomcat.

Can you please explain little bit about the above statement? Is there any major advantages of using Apache which is not found in Tomcat?

Thanks