Where's Lassie when you need her?

Timothy Perrett wrote:
> 
> Sorry! My bad – we’ve had so many convo’s about this and I had become 
> muddled :-)
> 
> I was talking about continuations as you say, not the the comet support!
> 
> Sorry again! Doh!
> 
> Cheers, Tim
> 
> On 16/03/2009 19:15, "David Pollak" <feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>     On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 6:39 AM, Timothy Perrett
>     <timo...@getintheloop.eu> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>         Im hosting several sites on a single jetty install - its working
>         perfectly
>         right now. Are you not familiar with the virtual hosting options
>         in jetty?
>         Its pretty well documented on their wiki and will let you host
>         from the root
>         context.
> 
>         Someone can correct me if im wrong, but until servlet 3.0 spec
>         comes out, I
>         believe were only supporting comet in Jetty. So if your planning
>         a move to
>         Glassfish, you'll loose the comet support.
> 
> 
>     This is absolutely wrong.  Lift supports Comet *NO MATTER WHAT
>     CONTAINER YOU USE*!!!  (Sorry for jumping up and down on this, but
>     it's very important that people not think that Lift's features are
>     container dependent.)
> 
>     Lift takes advantage of Jetty continuations to reduce resource
>     consumption on the server by not consuming a thread during long
>     polling.  This means that if you have more than 500 simultaneous
>     connections to a server, it'll consume a ton of resources on Tomcat
>     and very few on Jetty.
>      
> 
> 
> 
>         Can you not use the context deployer in jetty to do what you need?
> 
>         Thanks
> 
>         Tim
> 
> 
>         On 16/03/2009 13:07, "Charles F. Munat" <c...@munat.com> wrote:
> 
>         >  Right now I'm running about a half dozen instances of Jetty
>         (one per
>         >  site). I'm starting them with java -jar ..., and stopping them
>         with kill
>         >  -9, which I think is a total hack. To find out what's running,
>         I do a ps
>         >  aux | grep jetty. Seriously? In 2009?
>         >
>         >  With Glassfish (or Geronimo or equivalent), I get a nice
>         interface and I
>         >  can deploy pretty easily. I can see exactly what's going on. I
>         can start
>         >  and stop servlets easily, and I can set things up to restart
>         >  automatically on server reboot (instead of writing a shell
>         script).
>         >
>         >  And I'm hoping that despite the higher overhead of Glassfish,
>         that when
>         >  I get enough sites in there it will be lower than running that
>         many
>         >  separate instances of Jetty.
>         >
>         >  There may be other things I'd like to play with as well
>         (access control,
>         >  etc.).
>         >
>         >  The thing that holds me back is that when I deploy multiple
>         sites to
>         >  Glassfish, a site like mysite.com <http://mysite.com>  is
>         actually deployed to
>         >  mysite.com/mysite <http://mysite.com/mysite> . That extra
>         context in the path is a showstopper. But
>         >  I have been unable to figure out how to get rid of it.
>         >
>         >  I'm open to other suggestions, but there has to be some way
>         for me to
>         >  host multiple sites with some sort of interface and an easy way to
>         >  deploy, restart, monitor, etc. them.
>         >
>         >  Chas.
>         >
>         >  Timothy Perrett wrote:
>         > >
>         > > Phew :)
>         > >
>         > > Out of interest, why do you want to use glashfish rather than
>         jetty?
>         > >
>         > > Tim
>         > >
>         > > On 16/03/2009 10:08, "Charles F. Munat" <c...@munat.com> wrote:
>         > >
>         > >> Just Jetty on the server. Maven/Jetty while developing. (I'm
>         not that
>         > >> dumb.) :-)
>         > >>
>         > >> Chas.
>         > >
>         > >
>         > >
>         > >>
>         >
>         >  >
>         >
> 
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