Question

I have developed WebService using Restlet API in Java for iPhone/iPad devices.

Our server is Linux CentOS, 2GB RAM, 14GB disk space.

I am using Apache Tomcat 6.0.35 and MySQL 5.1 database.

These users may have many concurrent users say 100000 for example.

So my question is that Apache Tomcat and MySQL is best combination for it or I should change the combination like Jetty or Glassfish or any other web server and MySQL or other database ?

But I am worried about the performance with the combinations.

So please guide me on this.

Thanks in Advance.

Answer 1

No configuration on that hardware is going to serve 100000 concurrent users. And that is just such a huge number. Unless you have the next google on your hands, i think you are going to be looking at most a few concurrent users at a time, which depending on what you are doing, should be easily manageable.

Personally, I use tomcat because I think it is a little “lighter” than glassfish. Glassfish though has a lot more configuration available in its administration console.

EDIT:

Apparently Jetty can indeed be used as a production ready application server. See the comment below. My experience was purely using it for testing, but it was a good experience!