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| 4 | </a></small></td></tr></table><table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#525D76"><font face="arial,helvetica.sanserif" color="#ffffff"><a name="Introduction"><strong>Introduction</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> |
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| 6 | <p>Choosing a connector to use with Tomcat can be difficult. This page will |
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| 7 | list the connectors which are supported with this Tomcat release, and will |
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| 8 | hopefully help you make the right choice according to your needs.</p> |
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| 10 | </blockquote></td></tr></table><table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#525D76"><font face="arial,helvetica.sanserif" color="#ffffff"><a name="HTTP"><strong>HTTP</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> |
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| 12 | <p>The HTTP connector is setup by default with Tomcat, and is ready to use. This |
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| 13 | connector features the lowest latency and best overall performance.</p> |
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| 15 | <p>For clustering, a HTTP load balancer <b>with support for web sessions stickiness</b> |
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| 16 | must be installed to direct the traffic to the Tomcat servers. Tomcat supports mod_proxy |
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| 17 | (on Apache HTTP Server 2.x, and included by default in Apache HTTP Server 2.2) as the load balancer. |
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| 18 | It should be noted that the performance of HTTP proxying is usually lower than the |
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| 19 | performance of AJP, so AJP clustering is often preferable.</p> |
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| 21 | </blockquote></td></tr></table><table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#525D76"><font face="arial,helvetica.sanserif" color="#ffffff"><a name="AJP"><strong>AJP</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> |
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| 23 | <p>When using a single server, the performance when using a native webserver in |
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| 24 | front of the Tomcat instance is most of the time significantly worse than a |
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| 25 | standalone Tomcat with its default HTTP connector, even if a large part of the web |
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| 26 | application is made of static files. If integration with the native webserver is |
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| 27 | needed for any reason, an AJP connector will provide faster performance than |
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| 28 | proxied HTTP. AJP clustering is the most efficient from the Tomcat perspective. |
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| 29 | It is otherwise functionally equivalent to HTTP clustering.</p> |
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| 31 | <p>The native connectors supported with this Tomcat release are: |
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| 32 | <ul> |
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| 33 | <li>JK 1.2.x with any of the supported servers</li> |
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| 34 | <li>mod_proxy on Apache HTTP Server 2.x (included by default in Apache HTTP Server 2.2), |
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| 35 | with AJP enabled</li> |
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| 36 | </ul> |
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| 37 | </p> |
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| 39 | <p><b>Other native connectors supporting AJP may work, but are no longer supported.</b></p> |
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