Hi Tony, I don't believe this is a real issue. There's a great opensource EJB container out... see www.jboss.org for details. As for machine size and or number of machines.. this scales with the number of users hitting the server.. and with the type of bean being used. For fewer users you should be able to get away with a rather inexpensive machine. In general, if you're using a web-server and database you will probably have them on separate servers anyway and although not ideal you can collocate the Application Server with either of these. I think the real issue is reuse and extensibility. With beans you get a better chance to reuse components (say against using JSP or servlets with no beans on the backend). For small outfits you might not find a lot of places to make use of the components... On the other hand you might be able to make use of off-the-shelf components as well. One possibility, might be to build initially using JSPs or servlets and introduce Enterprise beans during refactoring. I haven't tried this, but I'm sure many on the list will be able to comment on using such an idea. Just a thought. Jon >From: "Tony K. Lawrence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: EJB for small projects? >Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 14:22:29 +0100 > >Hi, >As discussed on this newsgroup the performance of entity beans and the >general overhead of "nice" architectures leads to less performance. I >know that J2EE can scale up to millions of users if developed correctly. >I was wondering due to the initial overhead whether it was good for >smaller projects that deal with low thousands of users? Or whether the >machine spec and the app server cost mean't that it was better just >developing in something else. > >Thanks, > Tony > >=========================================================================== >To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body >of the message "signoff EJB-INTEREST". For general help, send email to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help". > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff EJB-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
