A hybrid connector for efficient web servers. (26th May 2009)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Carrera, David; Beltran, Vicenc; Torres, Jordi; Ayguade, Eduard
• Is Part Of: International journal of high performance computing and networking. Volume 5:Number 5/6(2008)
• Page Start: 323
• Page End: 330
• Publication Date: 2009-05-26
• Subjects: web servers -- performance evaluation -- Java -- network based computing -- scalability -- hybrid connectors -- web server architecture -- multithreaded architectures -- event-driven architectures -- e-commerce -- electronic commerce; High performance computing -- Periodicals; Computer networks -- Periodicals; High performance computing; Periodicals; 004.05
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1740-0562

Abstract

In this paper we introduce a novel web server architecture that combines the best aspects of both the multithreaded and the event-driven architectures, the two major existing alternatives, to create a server model that offers an improved performance in terms of user session completions without losing the natural ease of programming characteristic of the multithreading paradigm. We describe the implementation of this architecture on the Tomcat 5.5 server and evaluate its performance. The obtained results demonstrate the feasibility of the hybrid architecture and the performance benefits that this model introduces for e-commerce applications.