Re: Does switching to servlet deployment serve a purpose?
Re: Does switching to servlet deployment serve a purpose?
- Subject: Re: Does switching to servlet deployment serve a purpose?
- From: Hugi Thordarson <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 19:51:46 +0000
>> The biggest things you lose is the built in load balancing and the javamonitor. You will need to spawn your own instances and load balance them externally.
>
> That seems like a rather big drawback.
Indeed. I have however not checked out how this is handled by Glassfish. I imagine there must be some sort of a load balancing architecture somewhere, however.
>> Deployment turns into a single war file that is easy to do. It is much easier to deploy a war versus setting up a wo deployment.
>
> With the full embedding now available in WOProject, I suspect that a fully embedded .woa may now be easier to deploy. You do still need to deploy the web server resources in a separate step.
Indeed. We embed everything. And since we're not operating under heavy load, we have the luxury of being able to ignore WS resources and just use app resources. It's disgusting, I know - but as long as we can spare the cycles... :).
>> The other big gain is support for non wo supported platforms like Linux, solaris, and windows
>
> The only thing not cross platfom is mod_webobjects and that is fairly easy to build and mDimension kindly hosts several pre-built versions:
> http://webobjects.mdimension.com/wonder/mod_WebObjects/Apache2.2/
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> From what I have seen, the only real reasons to use servlet deployment are:
> - access to things like jsp tagging
> - deployment on hosting services that don't support WO (which would be most of them...)
> - deployment in a mixed environment where servlet deployment has been mandated as the standard
>
> At least as of a couple years ago, ITMS was using standard WO deployment. They need all the bang they can get, so if servlet was better I expect they would have used that.
Yeah, that's pretty much what I figured. As usual, it mostly boils down to politics, I can't find any actual technical reasons to switch deployment environments.
Thanks!
Cheers,
- hugi _______________________________________________
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