Tomcat 7 vs. ehCache Standalone Server (Glassfish) Configuration with RESTful Web Services

Question

My requirements consist of using ehCache to send and store data via RESTful web service calls. The data can be stored in-memory or via the filesystem...

Never used ehCache before so I am having some issues deciding on which bundle to use.

Have downloaded the following bundles:

ehcache-2.6.2

ehcache-standalone-server-1.0.0

(1) What is the difference between the two?

It seems the ehcache-2.6.2 contains src and binaries, which essentially enables one to bundle it with their webapps (by putting the compiled jar or binaries inside the webapp's WEB-INF/lib folder). But it doesn't seem that it has support for Restful web services.

Whereas, ehcache-standalone-server-1.0.0 (comes with an embedded Glassfish server and has support for REST & SOAP) can be used to run as a standalone server. If I my answers to my own question are correct, then that means, I should just use the standalone server?

(2) My requirements are to setup ehCache (with REST support) on Tomcat 7. So, how could I setup ehCache on Tomcat 7 as a separate app with REST & SOAP support?

Thank you for taking the time to read this...

Answer 1

thats right, the first package is to include ehcache into your own application (this application could also be just a REST Interface for the cache )

the second one bundels already an application server with it, because you need to run it on dedicated hardware which more memory, you need a shared cache for many webservers, or you dont have java client. .....

to run it on tomcat just download the distribution modul which is a simple WAR file, which can be deployed to tomcat or any other webserver. a REST Interface is included.