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List:       tomcat-dev
Subject:    Re: TC evolment
From:       Remy Maucherat <remm () apache ! org>
Date:       2004-03-31 19:53:07
Message-ID: 406B21A3.7010602 () apache ! org
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Mladen Turk wrote:
>>What do you want to do?
>>- Call native methods in TC to get PHP running.
>>- Write a servlet engine that understands PHP. (Well the 
>>problem would be the libraries).
> 
> If a majority of my web content is a dynamic one, delivered through JSP,
> PHP, or what ever, why would I need a dummy web server as an intermediate?
> That's my thoughts. True, I'm thinking of having native connection to PHP,
> but that's irrelevant compared to the concept itself.
> Nowadays we are having connectors (to the so called mighty webservers) to
> the TC, but I'd like to rotate that a bit. Static content is becoming less
> and less significant than before, and I cannot imagine a ISP provider that
> doesn't offer some dynamic content 'connector'.
> I think that we need to change the thinking perspective from TC being a
> 'helper' to TC being a 'workhorse'.

Ok. If you manage to do it, I think performance is going to be 
important, and you (= we)'ll need to publicize it. It has to be 
comparable to Apache 2 / mod_php, obviously ;)

Rémy


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