Have a look at http://cargo.codehaus.org, don't know if it fits your needs, but can be an asset when doing functional tests on different containers.
Mvgr, Martin On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 15:18, Don Grodecki wrote: > Wayne, > > Let me know the name and version of the JSP server that you wish to use, and > the version of Java you wish to use, your processor and your operating > system, and we will take a crack at it, for free, unless it proves > intractable, which I doubt for the cases Tomcat, Resin, and JBOSS. We are > also big into Websphere. > > PS: Will Ross from ARCH in Mendocino says hi! > > - Don > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Wayne Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 7:40 AM > Subject: Re: OpenHRE software available > > > Thanks David and Don for the information. > > Let me give some more perspective on why I asked the question. > > I am responsible for running (operations) a JSP server farm. We > currently use Resin, but we used to use Tomcat back in the 3.X release > days. What we have found is that our particular installation of the > server, ranging from java release levels, to additional jar's to where > we locate the software and finally to configuration directives gradually > evolves over time into something quite specific to this server > environment. Recently we ran into seemingly intractable robustness > problems and I lobbied to switch to another JSP server, JBOSS. It > turned out that the labor involved in such a switch was so great that we > ended up investing significant time in problem solving. Thanks to a > great staff and java 1.5, we think we solved the problem. > > Another data point: We have purchased two commercially supported > applications based on JSP server technology. IN both cases, it became > highly problematical to try to adapt those applications to our JSP > server world. We ended up installing those applications according to > how their developers packaged the system, including the supported > install of the JSP engine. > > What that ended up doing is having my group, i.e. server operations, > treating the application installed on a dedicated server as if it was a > vendor supplied blackbox, i.e. an appliance. > > Since my long range strategy is to adopt appliance solutions where ever > possible this should be acceptable. An issue arises, however, in that > this model does not scale well unless one makes the move away from > commodity hardware! By that, I mean that the installation, on-going > physical operation and management of these appliances can get to be a > problem in it's own right! > > And that leads me back to what the hardware vendors will supply and > support as the starting point for any application bundling effort. > -- Mvgr, Martin
