Rahul wrote: > > On Oct 8, 1:46 am, David Huynh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> There was a hiccup on the Simile web server today. It should be OK now. >> Could you check your exhibit again? >> > > Awesome. Works now. Solved. > > >> FYI, there's a way to configure an exhibit to use a different painter >> service: >> <link rel="exhibit/map-painter href="http://somewhere.else/painter"; /> >> > > Can I run my own painter service too? How does one do that? > Yes, you can. Check out the code from here http://simile.mit.edu/repository/painter/trunk/ Then you need Apache Maven to run it. At the command line, type mvn jetty:run
> Can I configure it to point to two painter services? Will that give me > failover capabilities? > No, it can only point to one service. > Also, will running the full Exhibit service on my own sever give me a > significant performance boost as opposed to pinging the Similie > servers each time? Is latency a performance issue? Some of the larger > Exhibits seem to load very slowly. What is the bottleneck currently? > Server, clients or the ethernet? > It's known that Exhibit does not scale due to its Javascript-based implementation. But newer browsers should make it run faster. Try Google Chrome or Safari 3. I don't know why things are slow in your specific case. If you have Firebug or some network diagnosis tools, see if you can track down the problem. David --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SIMILE Widgets" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/simile-widgets?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
