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iPlanet Webserver Vs Weblogic server for Weblogic 8.1

Can anybody suggest me if it is good idea to go for a different webserver than Weblogic 8.1 sp3 provides.
What are the possible advantages of using iPlanets webserver as a plugin inside Webloigic 8.1 appserver over the
weblogic's own webserver.
Thanks in advance
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sompol_kiatkamolchai

There will be an advantage if your system has many static content like .html .xml .jpg .gif ... than dynamic content like jsp/servlet since the major purpose of webserver is to provide fast response on requesting static content.

To make a decision, please consider whether most of contents are static or not. If most of them is jsp/servlet, I don't think there will be any advantages. And like illusionz70 said, you need to maintainance more on two server.

The last thing you need to consider is if you have only WebLogic, does it can serve your business need? If so, no need to spent more on IPlanet.

SoMPOL

protege_g

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Thanks for the answers

protege_g

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what about the webserver to be used as a proxy server for Load balancing .Is it good to use Weblogic BEA web server as the proxy server Versus third party web server like one from sun?What is the licensing cost for just using BEA Weblogic web server(the HTTP server).Can the HTTP server exist on its own without specific installation of BEA Weblogic Server
installation?Is it better to have full fledge BEA Weblogic Server act as the proxy server?

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illusionz70

bea weblogic proxy server is nothing but just another instance of your weblogic server.
it has 2 servlets mapped in web.xml
httpclusterservlet for dynamic content ( you can set it such that all the dynamic content is forwarded to your weblogic webapp servers)
fileservlet ( which can serve all your static content)

web proxy server has its own internal load balancing technicques and i tink provids with 2/3 algorithms to choose from .
default works just the fine for us.
a third party http server can be installed and used just the same way .various http servers are suportd by weblogic .check the documentation.

apache is free so check if the http server u want to use is free.
if it is commercial it is beeter to use weblogic since u might have already purchased the license and u can anyways run as many instancesz of weblogic server you want.