preferred web environment

[Bob Smith]

I'm using RH9, so I can't answer your question vis EL AS.   However, if 
you are going to support application work moving forward, then at a 
minimum Apache 2.0 and Tomcat 5.  There are significant organizational 
improvements in Apache 2.x over 1.3, and support for application servers 
is predominately being focused on 2.0.  In application circles, 1.3 is 
considered EOL, as is Tomcat 4.x.

Tomcat 5 provides the latest servlet engine and JSP support, and 
reasonable connectors to Apache and other webservers.

JBoss provides Apache 2.0, I believe, in its latest release, and I'm not 
entirely sure which tomcat engine is runs, but 5 should work there as 
well.  JBoss provides you with a bundle of it's latest working 
environment, if you want to go with a one-shot solution.

If you are looking to support a J2EE and EJB capable environment, then 
JBoss is the answer.  Otherwise, you can provide non-EJB equivalent 
application environment easily with Apache 2.0.x and Tomcat-Jakarta 5.x.

-Bob

Robert D. Kutsy wrote:

>Hello Listers:
>
>Are there any thoughts as to a preferred web environment on Enterprise Linux
>AS:
>
>1) Apache 1.3 + Tomcat 4+
>2) Apache 2.0 + Tomcat 4+
>3) JBoss
>
>I appreciate any and all responses, especially those that are supported by
>strong opinions.
>
>Thanks!
>bkutsy
>  
>