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: Dov Rosenberg <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:22:29 -0500
- Thread-topic: Does switching to servlet deployment serve a purpose?
Politics was our biggest motivator. Our software is deployed on customers
servers and it was not an option to install a WO runtime everywhere. Its not
ideal but deploying in a Tomcat type environment seems to work pretty well
even when our app is scaled to pretty high loads
Dov
On 2/1/10 2:51 PM, "Hugi Thordarson" <email@hidden> wrote:
>>> 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/
>>
>> 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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