If I can get through my configuration woes here I might make a contribution to it. Other than my current problem, the setup seems to be pretty good and scalable.
Along the same lines, a page on setting up an easily testable development environment could be good also. We use maven, hsqldb, and jetty to test everything on the developer's machine and it's fantastic. On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 13:31 +0300, Andreas Andreou wrote: > Those configuration ( & tweaking ) questions arise from time to time. > > Even if it's a bit OT, it'd be nice to see all those recommendations > in the wiki over at http://wiki.apache.org/tapestry/ > > Just like we have SuccessStories, we could have ConfigurationStories. > > Anyone willing to make the start? > > > Daniel Jue wrote: > > We are still in the development stages, but we'll be running Tomcat > > 5.5.17 behind IIS and using the isapi redirector. Single JVM, with > > default memory settings right now. > > > > Since our Tapestry pages look like standard html (i.e. they don't end > > in .jsp), and since our IIS instance is shared with other web apps, > > the redirector is told to forward anything in our app's sub directory > > to Tomcat. > > > > So far the only issue I'm having at the moment is Hot Deploy is > > broken. This is a known problem and it has to do with the way the > > Windows file system locks the resources (especially Jar files, but > > sometimes others). Just FYI, the work-around(s) that are available > > are not real solutions. They involve making tomcat create a temporary > > copy of the web app for each time you hot deploy. You eat up space > > really quick (because it doesn't ever clean the temp directories) and > > it's slow. > > > > See the Tomcat newsgroups and bug reports for more info on this, since > > it's not Tapestry related. > > > > In addition, I chose Tomcat because: > > I'm semi-familiar with it (seen it used with success in the past), > > compared to OC4J/JBOSS > > After seeing how some Oracle documentation was written, I just didn't > > trust OC4J > > I found lots of threads online about how OC4J sucked > > I like the Apache foundation products. > > I knew at the time I could integrate it with Eclipse > > The amount of online articles/support/tutorials was sufficient for me. > > A lot of good Tapestry tutorials used Tomcat. > > > > On 10/5/06, Dan Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Do you run tomcat? Roughly what does your tomcat setup look like? > >> - If you run virtual hosts do you run all apps in the same jvm or do you > >> run multiple jvm instances? > >> - What memory settings do you use? > >> - Do you use tomcat with apache and if so what connector do you use? > >> Mod_jk? jk2? mod_proxy? mod_proxy_ajp? > >> - Any other tips your can give from experience? > >> > >> -- > >> Dan Adams > >> Senior Software Engineer > >> Interactive Factory > >> 617.235.5857 > >> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > -- Dan Adams Senior Software Engineer Interactive Factory 617.235.5857 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
