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Re: switch from Jetty to Tomcat

by Graeme Rocher-3 :: Rate this Message:

On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 1:08 AM, Fred Janon<fjanon@...> wrote:
> That's interesting because Google moved from Tomcat to Jetty in GWT, people
> were complaining about starting time in development with Tomcat. I hope
> development with 1.2 doesn't get slower.

Tomcat 5.x startup time wasn't good, but the Tomcat 6 series has
roughly the same or better startup time as Jetty. What Tomcat lacks is
the ability to easily embed it. The Tomcat team at S2 are working on
correcting that for the next release of Tomcat.

Regards,

>
> Fred
>
> On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 01:12, Robert Fischer
> <robert.fischer@...> wrote:
>>
>> Tomcat is probably the dominant deployment environment for Grails, an
>> argument can be made that making the dev and production environments mirror
>> each-other closely is important (search grails-user for Tomcat to see hints
>> at that).
>>
>> I harbor a deep suspicion that this has something to do with it, too:
>> http://www.springsource.com/products/tcserver
>>
>> ~~ Robert.
>>
>> Marcus Better wrote:
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>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I noticed that the roadmap [1] for Grails 1.2 contains this item:
>>> "Replace Jetty with Tomcat for default container". This surprised me a bit,
>>> so I wonder what motivates this switch.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Marcus
>>>
>>> [1]http://grails.org/Roadmap
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