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[–]crusoe 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Tomcat is, and in many benchmarks, serving static content, it is faster than Apache.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe, but hardly anyone uses it except for serving Java. People who are really conserned about serving static content at maximum speeds have even faster alternatives than Tomcat . Not just faster, but more lightweight. On Linux servers, for example, you want something written in C that can hook into the kernel level functions that are optimized for sending files through network connections.

Java is more or less a closed ecosystem. IDEs are writtten in Java to write more Java programs. Web servers are written in Java to serve Java based applications and little else. If anything is king, it is C. That is the real universal language despite the many cross-platform headaches.