BonCode AJP13 Connector for IIS

The easiest connector to script deployments and bundle in your projects ;o)

Hands-down the easiest connector to use for the common developer (no need to get involved with the intricacies of Tomcat and IIS protocol interchanges.)
Simply run the Connector_Setup.exe and you are done.
If you need to script your deployments this can be achieved as easy as calling a command line.

Differences and Advantages

This is the modern method of connecting IIS and Apache Tomcat. Most likely to use a Railo, Lucee or JSP driven backend. The BonCode AJP (Apache JServ Protocol version 1.3) Connector uses already existing pathways to connect to Apache Tomcat. The AJP implementation is generic and will work to connect IIS with any AJP server such as Jboss, web-methods, Jetty etc. In general it is a preference question how you connect IIS to Tomcat, though, there are several advantages with the BonCode connector vs the old ISAPI connector:

no ISAPI code, IIS6 vestiges or backward compatibility elements needed
does not block or hinder IIS functionality or slows unrelated requests
all managed code for IIS using the modern extensibility framework
works on most IIS versions (Windows 7 through Windows 10, Windows Server 2003-2020)
speed, throughput, and stability improvements
configuration in IIS UI
no virtual directories and virtual mappings needed
configuration can be inherited to sub-paths and virtual sites
easy install/uninstall
support partial stream sending to browser (automatic flushing) with faster response to client
support both 32/64 bit of Windows with same process and files
transfer of all request headers
build-in simple-security for web-administration pages (Tomcat, Railo, OpenBD, ColdFusion)
IP6 support
Additional HTTP headers data is passed to Tomcat servlet container (previously unavailable)
Improved transfer of SSL data to Tomcat servlet container
Support improved translation of load balancer headers to determine correct client IP
Support client fingerprint mechanism for use with safer sessions
Support for Adobe Coldfusion 10 - 2018 AJP dialects
Support for Lucee, Railo, and OpenBD CFML Engines
Support for alternate Path-Info header transmission via AJP

Even more stuff

If you were using a proxy or URL rewrite engine you would also benefit from:

Fully integrated SSL to Servlet container
Tomcat threading awareness (will not overload Tomcat and drop connections unnecessarily)
Your servlets and scripts will receive correct HTTP header/URL/IP information for processing
reduced traffic and processing on both IIS and tomcat sides
allows you to connect to multiple tomcat instances from within one IIS site without interfering with ISAPI connector, e.g. Shibboleth and ColdFusion 10/Railo

YouTube Videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/boncode/videos