Time for another crack at Tomcat.

I'd like to get it configured so that we can use it as a drop-in replacement for jserv. We've stayed with our initial architecture for a long time because it works - I did try Tomcat on one server a couple of years ago, but it couldn't handle the load and just grew more and more threads before slowing to a crawl. The trouble with jserv is that it's no longer updated and supports only an old version of the servlet / jsp spec. In particular, we can't use taglibs like JSTL or our own.

jserv allows speedy recompilation of pages after in-place editing. This means that someone from content can see the effect of their edits straight away, without waiting for a developer to package up and deploy a .war file. Tomcat will need to support that.

So, on with the download!

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- posted by Tim Bruce @ 10:13 AM