Apache and JSP

[Sunner]

I need a good webserver that can handle JSP, and that will run on Solaris.

I'd prefer Apache since Im quite familiar with that, and hence Im looking at Tomcat for the JSP part.
However, Tomcat does seem like a bit of a PITA to setup, with about a million dependencies, something which Im not too fond of.

Does anyone know of any other good solutions for this, or am I stuck with Tomcat?
Needs to be free by the way.

 

[manly]

Caucho Resin is free for non-commercial use. It's blazingly fast too.

It's "cheap" for commercial use. I could be wrong, but real businesses use Tomcat for development, not production. They'd be more likely to use a commercial app server, but those are kinda a waste of money. And if you need a J2EE server, jBoss 3.0 is open-source.

Virtually any decent servlet/JSP/J2EE/etc container will plugin with Apache, although most have their own HTTP server as well.

 

[spwango]

Dude, just use Tomcat..it only hurts for a day or two 😉

 

[Argo]

I don't like tomcat since it has memory leaks (I don't know if it's that bad since you're only going to use jsp). I prefer WebSphere but that's far from being free 🙂

 

[Sunner]

Originally posted by: spwango
Dude, just use Tomcat..it only hurts for a day or two 😉

Well, my problem with Tomcat is the installation docs, which mentions ~15 other packages that are needed, and the problem is, some are supposed to be downloaded as binaries, some as source.
In some cases the docs mention that the packages should have their own installations dirs, as is the case with some of the java stuff, however that stuff is already installed with Solaris, and hence the installation points are out of my hands unless I wanna reinstall it all and potentially foobar the Solaris included Java.

Yuck, makes me wanna hit the guy who made the site for using JSP :|