Path: csiph.com!news.fcku.it!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Inexpensive JSP/Servlet hosting? Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2016 20:57:48 -0500 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: <7a283c8d-1038-4bcf-95d8-bf5e74ccf756@googlegroups.com> <65e465ea-a439-4d70-8408-6b469acbf5ac@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: PBuS014lhzVyHjLbXmo/ZQ.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.5.1 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:36137 On 12/28/2016 2:29 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote: > On Wed, 28 Dec 2016 06:15:26 -0800, Eric Douglas wrote: >> I feel like I've asked this before but why are there so many things that >> sound like web server and which one(s) should we need? >> >> https://httpd.apache.org/ >> > This (Apache) is probably the most widely used webserver, but there are > others such as nginx. If you look around you can probably find one > written in 100% Java, but why bother? Apache has had a battering over the > years, so is stable, pretty much bugfree and reasonably secure. In > addition its very well documented. > >> http://tomcat.apache.org/ > Tomcat isn't a webserver. It is/was referred to as an application server, > IOW its a framework for executing Java web applications. Often called "Java web container" or "Servlet container". Note that Tomcat serves static content fine - it just don't have as many bells and whistles as Apache httpd in this area. >> https://eclipse.org/jetty/ >> https://sourceforge.net/projects/wampserver/ >> http://apachegui.net/ >> > I've not seen any of them though I've heard of Jetty. Others can > pontificate here. WAMPServer is a bundle of Apache+PHP+MySQL for Windows. I believe that Apache GUI is a GUI tool that can be used to manage Apache httpd instead of editing httpd.conf. Arne