Multiple instances of WOA's deployed as WAR's

2009-04-17 Thread Tonny Staunsbrink
Hello A recent posting said that "war file deployment just works" (it's not an exact quote, but that how i remember it). I've considered deploying WOA's in servlet containers, but there a few issues i just can't see how they will work if I run deploy an app to a servlet container cluster. 1) The

Re: Multiple instances of WOA's deployed as WAR's

2009-04-17 Thread Andrew Lindesay
Hello Tonny; [Disclaimer; As I said to somebody else off-list recently, I did quite a bit of investigation into this in 2005/6, but never got to production deployment as the client wanted to stick with wotaskd in the end -- so I am speaking from testing / theory] http://wiki.obje

Re: Multiple instances of WOA's deployed as WAR's

2009-04-17 Thread David Avendasora
On Apr 17, 2009, at 3:26 AM, Tonny Staunsbrink wrote: Hello A recent posting said that "war file deployment just works" (it's not an exact quote, but that how i remember it). Yeah, I think that was me. I should have said: Simple, single instance servlet deployments just work. If you creat

Re: Multiple instances of WOA's deployed as WAR's

2009-04-17 Thread Dov Rosenberg
We have been deploying our apps out as servlets for a few years now with many of our larger customers having large numbers of instances. Here is some things we have learned over that time: * Deploying as servlets means that you can only have 1 instance per servlet container. In order to scale you

Re: Multiple instances of WOA's deployed as WAR's

2009-04-17 Thread Mike Schrag
looks like a wiki page to me if i ever saw one :) On Apr 17, 2009, at 8:20 AM, Dov Rosenberg wrote: We have been deploying our apps out as servlets for a few years now with many of our larger customers having large numbers of instances. Here is some things we have learned over that time: D

Re: Multiple instances of WOA's deployed as WAR's

2009-04-17 Thread David Avendasora
Dov, This is really excellent! Do you mind if I put this up on the Wiki as a general WebObjects with Servlets informational page? With that said, I do have some questions for you about this. See below On Apr 17, 2009, at 8:20 AM, Dov Rosenberg wrote: We have been deploying our apps out as s

Re: Multiple instances of WOA's deployed as WAR's

2009-04-20 Thread Tonny Staunsbrink
Great, thanks for the very insightful replies, this info should definitely go into the wicki (David are you gonna let us know when it's there ;-) ). So load balancing i feasible, but it looks like I'll run into a few issues before it's working. I'll try and find the time to tackle these issues. Let

Re: Multiple instances of WOA's deployed as WAR's

2009-04-20 Thread David Avendasora
On Apr 20, 2009, at 3:45 PM, Tonny Staunsbrink wrote: Great, thanks for the very insightful replies, this info should definitely go into the wicki (David are you gonna let us know when it's there ;-) ). Ahg. I knew there was something on my todo list not getting done! Dave So load bala