hehe, I think you could be right. An appliance is probably the way to go.
At 01:19 PM 21/10/02 -0600, you wrote:
>I don't know much about installers, but I imagine it might be doable with
>a lot
>of work. Doesn't sound like an enviable task, though. You don't know
>what may
>be installed already on a machine - what if there's already a web server that
>wants to listen on port 80 or if there's a previous version of the dbms being
>used for applications? Sounds like it could get insanely complicated.
>
>I think a feasible approach might be to go one step further and actually
>supply
>the hardware with everything preinstalled. The so-called web "appliance".
>After you add up the cost of licenses for CF and say, MS SQL, the hardware
>itself would be a small percentage of the cost.
>
>Jim
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Brook Davies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "CF-Server" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 12:40 PM
>Subject: Re: Stand Alone / packaged solution
>
>
> > Actually, stand-alone as in prepackaged for deployment. It would still be a
> > web app. The client console would be to manage various aspects of the web
> > app on the server side. So instead of telling the client to edit the
> > web.xml (for example), various options would be provided from the Console
> > to do these server side admin tasks. Just to simplify administration of the
> > app.
> >
> > I may be way off base here :)
> >
> >
> > At 11:58 AM 21/10/02 -0600, you wrote:
> > >"Stand alone" as in nobody except the user of that machine accesses the
> > >application?
> > >
> > >If you've got a VB client console, why the need to put a web server and CF
> > >between it and your database?
> > >
> > >Jim
> > >
> > >
> > >----- Original Message -----
> > >From: "Brook Davies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >To: "CF-Server" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 11:45 AM
> > >Subject: Stand Alone / packaged solution
> > >
> > >
> > > > How would one go about deploying a stand alone solution? I'm thinking
> > > > something along the lines of an application that comes with an Install
> > > > program which installs a webserver, Database, VB client consule and CF
> > > > files necessary to run the app. I have no idea how this would be
> > > > accomplished. Is it possible to set up Tomcat to serve pre-compiled
>cf/java
> > > > class files and not have the CF server installed? Would Jrun would
> need to
> > > > be installed?
> > > >
> > > > Brook
>
>
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