ServletExec is best
----- Original Message -----
From: Steven Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 9:53 AM
Subject: Re: Best JSP/Servlet Engine
> Somebody wrote:
> > We are ready to put our JSP project from JSWDK to an advanced
> > JSP/Servlet engine. But we have not decided which product to choose yet:
> > JRUN
> > Resin
> > ServletExec
> > Orion server
> > ...
> > Could anybody share your experiences? both cost wise and speed wise?
>
> I have worked with jrun running under netscape. I had a site
> running a set of servlets that used RMI to talk to a set of backend
> RMI servers that handled the business logic and used MQSeries to talk
> to an IBM 390 mainframe. It served about 3000 servlet requests an
> hour, running on a fairly gutsy Solaris box. About half of those
> requests required RMI requests back to the second tier.
>
> For the most part it went quite smoothly. We did notice that
> after about a month or so of continuous serving we had some OS
> problems and ended up having to hard boot the system (i.e. flip the
> power switch - this is *not* commonly done with large Solaris
> systems). However, this may have been due to Netscape (NES 3.6)
> server memory leak problems.
>
> Essentially, the rest of the sites were running in a round-robin
> configuration using Cisco LocalDirector to distribute the requests
> evenly to two Solaris boxes, each running a couple dozen netscape
> servers. Last minute changes in the local network architecture
> required this particular server to run all by its lonesome, handling
> just as much traffic per hour as the other busiest server - which was
> sharing its load between two machines. So this constituted probably
> the heaviest load that configuration had ever seen at that
> corporation. Once we got the round-robin working for that server, we
> never saw a reoccurrence of that problem.
>
> This is not to say Jrun is the best option, just to give you a
> little anecdotal information.
>
> I've heard some *very* nice things about OrionServer. It's not
> just a JSP & servlet engine, it provides a lot more (support for EJB,
> etc, go look at their website). It has the simplest install I've ever
> seen - it's a Jar file :-). I convinced the primary web server admin
> here to take a look at it as an option for rebuilding our e-commerce
> stuff for high load. He's been quite impressed with it so far. I'll
> provide more info on that as we get more experience with it. It has
> some respectable looking benchmark info on their site, too
> (www.orionserver.com). The last time I looked the price for Orion was
> an extremely reasonable $1500.
>
> Steven J. Owens
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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