I want to start JSP support for my hosting, which one should I choose between Tomcat and Resin? I previously used Tomcat and it caused many troubles. I heard some good things about resin but never used it. Hope to hear some comments about resin

Tomcat is by far the best. Most of the customers that make use of Java need to be on dedicated machines.

JVM needs around 256MB just to start up.

I had bad experiences on Tomcat, even you dont touch anything, the website added to Tomcat is still having problem, such as


Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

The only way to fix is login to SHELL, edit apache config, but not always successful

I went to Cpanel support forum, they suggest using Resin, more stable and never causes such problem

One more thing to notice is that Lunarpages offer Resin for JSP, not Tomcat

You cannot run many Java 'things' with Resin. In general Java+Cpanel = very bad unstable combination

Plan on dedicating a server to only .jsp clients, we use tomcat on a w2k servers without problems. The install and configuration was a pain so make sure you document everything for future setups.