RE: Inprise AppServer vs Orion

2001-04-17 Thread calvin matthews
Hi, I have evaluated a number of application servers and I can honestly say that Borland IAS was the server that I recommended NOT using in any circumstances. In its favour it has good support from a big company, There is no need to restart server when deploying components (unlike a lot of

RE: Alternative Deployment

2001-04-11 Thread calvin matthews
Thanks for your input Dan, The dilemma that we face is not a question of failover. We propose to have a hardware loadbalancer such as local director fronting a number of apache servers that talk to a cluster of J2EE application servers, which in turn talk to a clustered database. This gives us

RE: Alternative Deployment

2001-04-11 Thread calvin matthews
Randy, Thanks for the info on flashline. I have already looked there and read a number of the reviews. That is how I stumbled across orion. My original idea was to consider orion as the main server with JRun as a potential 'swap in' backup. But there are so many app servers available and there

Alternative Deployment

2001-04-09 Thread calvin matthews
Hi, I have been monitoring the orion news group for some 5 months now and I have never seen the contributers so dejected and negative about its creators as they have of late. Don't get me wrong, I think that Orion is a fantastic application server, but the creators have seemingly fallen of the

Hardware load balancer

2001-03-26 Thread calvin matthews
Hi, How can you replace the loadbalancer application with a hardware load balancer, such that all servers are accessing the same application and the session integrity is maintained? Has any one done it? Thanks, Calvin

Avoiding single point of failure.

2001-03-26 Thread calvin matthews
Thanks for the replies to my earlier questions. I don't think my questions were very clear so I'll elaborate. Does Orion support the use of multiple orion load balancer application instances to avoid single point of failure? i.e. not just multiple loadbalancers, each handling a single island,

can you have multiple load balancers

2001-03-22 Thread calvin matthews
Hi, Our site must be able to cope a large number of concurrent users. I have been able to setup the loadbalancer and clustering on Orion, but have a few questions. a) Can you replace the loadbalancer application transparently with a hardware load balancer such as cisco local director? b) Does

RE: ClassNotFoundException in JRun connecting to Orion EJB

2000-12-07 Thread Calvin Matthews
to talk to Orion because of class conflicts. Calvin. --- Calvin Matthews Analyst Programmer, Taskflow Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 01189 387 000 Fax: 01189 387 022 http://www.taskflow.com --- The contents