Howdy,

>It's important to realize that Apache is basically C code rather than
Java
>code, so it tends to run faster and of course is much more mature.
Because

Sure, but back that up with benchmarks specific to your application
before blindly picking one or the other based on "tends to run faster."

>Apache supports lots of different plugin capabilities, so while Tomcat
can
>do static content (HTML, images, javascripts) as well as JSP/servlets,
it
>can't do CGI/Perl/PHP/Python, etc. that might be plugged into an Apache
web
>server. Of course, Apache can't do JSP/servlets or the others
directly,
>only via plugins.

Tomcat can do CGI as well as SSI (Server-Side Includes).

>To use port 80/443 with Tomcat, you have to launch it from 'root' on
>Linux/Unix. There may be a way to resolve that nowadays, but the last
I

Yes, there is a way to resolve that nowadays, it comes bundled standard
with tomcat 5 and may be used with tomcat 4 as well.

Yoav Shapira



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