Gartner hasn't always said favorable things about Linux systems in the workplace.
Ordinarily, the posters (and sometimes even the editors) at Slashdot are prone to overstatement, making this understatement somewhat refreshing. Of the companies in its industry, Gartner is perhaps one of the most extreme shills for Microsoft.
Tomcat and other open-source J2EE servers (e.g., jBoss, a J2EE application server) are not the only things that we (in the Linux and open-source community) need to compete with MS's.Net. We also need open-source implementations of Web services, whose components include SOAP, a derivative of XML-RPC. Web services comprise a crucial part of the foundation of.Net. IBM has developed some documentation on configuring Tomcat to work with SOAP. The other components of Web services include:
a) ebXML;
b) eXtensible HTML (XHTML);
c) Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI), and
The best places for learning about Tomcat (both 3.x and 4.0), aside from the documentation, are mailing lists and
forums, two of which are:
(a) The mailing list tomcat-user-help@jakarta.apache.org, to which you can subscribe through
the Jakarta site. The archives for
this mailing list are helpful, too, and can be searched. In both the current mailing list
and the archives, the most productive use of your time would be to read everything posted by
Craig McClanahan and Pier Fumagalli, who are the primary developers (of Tomcat) and writers
of most of the documentation. They seem to know more about Tomcat than anyone else (at least
Tomcat 4.0), and they often post material to the mailing list that is not found
anywhere in the official documentation.
[A] lot of people wondered what role Apache will play in a future that might be dominated by.Net.
Not I, because I am aware that the Apache Software Foundation has been working on SOAP for sometime. Besides, Microsoft cannot dominate the future because, in the future, interoperability between systems will require open standards and open protocols that are not determined by a single corporation or business interest.
Does this answer some of your concerns about Apache's future?
Not at all. I am not concerned about Apache's future. I know that it will continue to thrive. Apache 2.0 has been in beta since March and will probably soon be released. Other Apache projects also kick butt, e.g., Tomcat 4.0, whose release is also imminent.
The NetHesive product seems primarily a savior for legacy applications, not the Apache web server.
Does anyone know of a website, or perhaps a book[,] that explains this aspect of the Internet?
See the Spring 1999 issue of the (now online?) magazine 2600, which had an article titled, "Internet Peering." Another good resource is the website of Boardwatch magazine.
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Yes, I agree completely regarding Jesse Berst. He is even more idiotic than John Dvorak.
I bought SuSE 6.4 because I figured that it would be easier to upgrade to 6.4 (from 6.1) than to download and install the latest in, for example, glibc, egcs, JDK and other tools. I needed the latest in those tools because Apache JServ (which allows Apache to run Java servlets) requires it. The latest JServ also requires Apache 1.3.9. An added benefit to getting SuSE 6.4 is that the manual is *much* better than the manual for, say, 6.1 (but it still needs considerable improvement).
I agree, but for additional reasons. I agree that the spelling could be better, but also insist that this story is not timely. SuSE posted the news of its 6.4 distribution *weeks* ago, not yesterday, and SuSE 6.4 has been available in a local (Fairfax, VA) computer store for at least a week. This story ought to have posted (if at all) sooner after SuSE released 6.4.
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Ordinarily, the posters (and sometimes even the editors) at Slashdot are prone to overstatement, making this understatement somewhat refreshing. Of the companies in its industry, Gartner is perhaps one of the most extreme shills for Microsoft.
In this vein, see an introductory article ("Server-side Java with Jakarta Tomcat") in Linux Journal (April, 2001) in the regular column, At the Forge.
Not I, because I am aware that the Apache Software Foundation has been working on SOAP for sometime. Besides, Microsoft cannot dominate the future because, in the future, interoperability between systems will require open standards and open protocols that are not determined by a single corporation or business interest.
Not at all. I am not concerned about Apache's future. I know that it will continue to thrive. Apache 2.0 has been in beta since March and will probably soon be released. Other Apache projects also kick butt, e.g., Tomcat 4.0, whose release is also imminent.
The NetHesive product seems primarily a savior for legacy applications, not the Apache web server.
See the Spring 1999 issue of the (now online?) magazine 2600, which had an article titled, "Internet Peering." Another good resource is the website of Boardwatch magazine.
Yes, I agree completely regarding Jesse Berst. He is even more idiotic than John Dvorak.
I bought SuSE 6.4 because I figured that it would be easier to upgrade to 6.4 (from 6.1) than to download and install the latest in, for example, glibc, egcs, JDK and other tools. I needed the latest in those tools because Apache JServ (which allows Apache to run Java servlets) requires it. The latest JServ also requires Apache 1.3.9.
An added benefit to getting SuSE 6.4 is that the manual is *much* better than the manual for, say, 6.1 (but it still needs considerable improvement).
I agree, but for additional reasons. I agree that the spelling could be better, but also insist that this story is not timely. SuSE posted the news of its 6.4 distribution *weeks* ago, not yesterday, and SuSE 6.4 has been available in a local (Fairfax, VA) computer store for at least a week. This story ought to have posted (if at all) sooner after SuSE released 6.4.