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Tomcat can use the Apache Portable Runtime to provide superior scalability,
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performance, and better integration with native server technologies.
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APR has many uses, including access to advanced IO functionality (such as
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sendfile, epoll and OpenSSL), OS level functionality (random number
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generation, system status, etc), and native process handling (shared memory,
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NT pipes and Unix sockets).
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These features allows making Tomcat a general purposewebserver, will
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enable much better integration with other native web technologies, and
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overall make Java much more viable as a full fledged webserver platform
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rather than simply a backend focused technology.
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- Alex Dupre
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ale@FreeBSD.org
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