What about the Google App Engine for Java platform ? It's powered by Jetty though, not Tomcat.
François On 13 août, 11:28, Miguel Morales <[email protected]> wrote: > > Do you know that most of the web sites, services and whatever on the > > internet are powered by Java and by a good percentage by Tomcat? Java > > = slow is bullishit at least since five years, so please don't spread > > FUD any longer. > > Yes, I know. I used to be a sysadmin for a few datacenters. I know > how tomcat applications behave. > Like I said, in server environments the jvm is really good. I use it > myself. It's fast enough, but by itself, doesn't scale very well. > What popular website runs on pure java code? > The VM as-is doesn't do well in slower/older hardware. The amount of > ram required for each instance is ridiculous. > Run a decent amount instances of your app and your server is toast. > Or if your app scales in one vm instance, it's still not worth it. > You're stuck with the usual perils of multi-threaded programming, > without any gains in efficiency or grace of scalability. > Locked hashmaps are cool, so are queues, but for anything real world > you'd most likely connect to a network database. At that point you > might as well code your app in a scripting language and increase your > productivity maintaining a relative performance. > > Then, what about scaling your app server wise? You're again network > bound over communicating between the instances. > Might as well skip all those optimizations and use something more > expressive and code faster. > > > This is meaningless given some context. There are plenty of benchmarks > > around that demonstrates than Java or C are faster. The JIT > > technology, BTW, allows for higher optimization than C, since it can > > only optimize statically. Of course, single benchmarks aren't > > meaningful, since in a real world project one have to do some > > trade-offs. There are many real-world examples that can be done, just > > the first one that is public and comes to my mind has been recently > > presented at Jazoon. See > >http://jazoon.com/Conference/Thursday/OMullane, slide #40, which I'm > > copying: > > I don't know of any popular fast java applications, despite all these > features. > Again, Java is ok, great for what it does. But -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" 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/android-developers?hl=en
