Chapter 21 Understanding Connectors
The following lists the connectors for Tomcat:
- HTTP
Tomcat provides the HTTP connector by default. This connector includes the lowest latency and best overall performance.
To enable clustering, it is important to install an HTTP load balancer with support for web sessions sickness to direct the traffic to the Tomcat servers.
It is recommended that you use AJP clustering instead of HTTP proxying due to performance issues.
- AJP
AJP connector performs faster when integration with the native webserver is needed. AJP clustering works efficiently with Tomcat.
Tomcat supports the following native connectors:
- JK 1.2.x with any of the supported servers
- mod_proxy on Apache HTTP server 2.x, with AJP enabled