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| <document url="connectors.html"> |
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| <author email="remm@apache.org">Remy Maucherat</author> |
| <title>Connectors How To</title> |
| </properties> |
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| <body> |
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| <section name="Introduction"> |
| |
| <p>Choosing a connector to use with Tomcat can be difficult. This page will |
| list the connectors which are supported with this Tomcat release, and will |
| hopefully help you make the right choice according to your needs.</p> |
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| </section> |
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| <section name="Standalone HTTP/1.1"> |
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| <p>The HTTP connector is setup by default with Tomcat, and is ready to use.</p> |
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| </section> |
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| <section name="Clustered HTTP/1.1"> |
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| <p>The HTTP connector is setup by default with Tomcat, and is ready to use. A HTTP |
| load balancer <b>with support for web sessions stickiness</b> must be installed to |
| direct the traffic to the Tomcat servers.</p> |
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| <p> |
| Tomcat supports mod_proxy (included by default in Apache httpd 2.2) as the load |
| balancer. This version of mod_proxy can also be used with Apache httpd 2.0. It should |
| be noted that the performance of HTTP proxying is usually lower than the performance |
| of AJP, so AJP clustering is often preferable. |
| </p> |
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| </section> |
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| <section name="Standalone AJP"> |
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| <p>When using a single server, the performance when using a native webserver in |
| front of the Tomcat instance is most of the time significantly worse than a |
| standalone Tomcat with its default HTTP connector, even if a large part of the web |
| application is made of static files. If integration with the native webserver is |
| needed for any reason, an AJP connector will provide faster performance than |
| proxied HTTP.</p> |
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| <p>The native connectors supported with this Tomcat release are: |
| <ul> |
| <li>mod_jk 1.2.x</li> |
| <li>mod_proxy on Apache httpd 2.2, with AJP support</li> |
| </ul> |
| </p> |
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| </section> |
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| <section name="Clustered AJP"> |
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| <p>AJP clustering is the most efficient from the Tomcat perspective. It is otherwise |
| functionally equivalent to HTTP clustering.</p> |
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| </section> |
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| </body> |
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| </document> |
