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Resin Released Under GPL

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the choices-are-good dept.

JohnA writes "I can't believe this hasn't received more attention than it has, but Caucho Software released their award-winning Java application server Resin under the GPL. This means that you are no longer bound to Tomcat and its less-than-stellar performance when deploying Java-based web apps."

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  1. Re:Hmm... by rixdaffy · · Score: 2, Insightful


    well, since it's GPL... wouldn't it be funny if the community decides to fork the opensourced code to include their own version of caching and clustering.

    I worked a lot with resin at my previous job and the caching is pretty good & useful.

    I don't think Tomcat does much caching... only caching of jsp compiled code, but I having a jsp engine which doesn't do that is unworkable.

    Now that I think of it, if I remember correctly, the resin source was always available. Maybe it's just that they changed the license of it...

    Ricardo.

  2. Re:Hmm... by dtfinch · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Even php has performance features removed. It keeps Zend in the business of selling products to make php faster.

  3. Re:Who ever said Java was slow? by Unordained · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Indeed. Java, which compiles to native cpu byte code, is apparently faster than perl and php, which don't (that I've heard of.) I didn't see any CGI/C tests nor mod_my_custom_code/apache. Valid tests here, but more comprehensiveness would have been nice. Anyone have that for me? (Nope, not language trolling today. Honest question.)