From owner-freebsd-java Sat Aug 17 0:24:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D7D837B400 for ; Sat, 17 Aug 2002 00:24:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.49]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6F2343E3B for ; Sat, 17 Aug 2002 00:24:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from absinthe@pobox.com) Received: from dhcp068-64-151-24.nt01-c4.cpe.charter-ne.com ([24.151.64.68] helo=laredo.retrovertigo.com) by scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17fxwn-00032w-00; Sat, 17 Aug 2002 00:24:33 -0700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Dylan Carlson Reply-To: absinthe@pobox.com To: Jonathon McKitrick , freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Resin vs Orion Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 03:24:32 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.2 References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FDA901@l04.research.kpn.com> <20020817055915.GA67778@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <20020817055915.GA67778@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200208170324.32351.absinthe@pobox.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Saturday 17 August 2002 01:59am, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > I finally found Resin, after stumbling across the site in a web > search. > > This server seems very proprietary, or at least unconventional about > protocols. However, they claim to be among the fastest in the > business. Has anyone used this app server? Especially before or > after experience with Orion? I evaluated both ... at least anecdotally, both seem equally faster and they are both very nicely done. Commercial license fees are roughly the same. Both run fine under FreeBSD (at least for what I was doing at the time), and are significantly faster and more robust than Tomcat. We ended up going with Resin not really because it was any better than Orion, but we had to choose and the choice wasn't mine. I would have probably picked Orion because it's in ports. You'd have to go over Orion and Resin with a very fine-toothed comb to find the differences. Right now I'd say they are equals. Unless you're running a language that hasn't been implemented/wrapped in Java (PHP has, for example), I recommend running these servers standalone without Apache. They'll serve up your static content faster than Apache can anyway. YMMV. Cheers, -- Dylan Carlson [absinthe@pobox.com] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message