Hi everyone,

Not that this list seems to need it, but I thought I'd just stir the pot
up a little.

I've just begun running Tomcat as a free alternative for lighter-weight,
simpler web applications -- not very high-traffic or CPU-intensive. Lots
of JSPs and a few database queries. Reliability is more important than
performance; for speed I have something like WebLogic running on a cluster
of Sun Sparc-based systems.

With that in mind, is it worth going to the source to create a custom
build (with all the time and testing that that implies), or is an
up-to-date package (I use SuSE Linux 8.2) a reasonable alternative? Right
now I'm using 4.1.18, and it doesn't seem much tweaked or modified.

I would appreciate any insights or suggestions from the community at
large.

Thanks in advance!

Benjamin Krieger