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Essentially what this boils down to is whether you believe "interface is king"
or you are one of those people who don't mind getting into the deep darkest
corners of tweaking software configurations to get it right.
Configuration files are great once you understand completely what the developer
meant to do with each stanza. Reading this from a text file is like reading the
Bible, every one will come up with what that or this means ... there will always
be questions as to hmmm... I think I did everything right, why doesn't this
work?
GUI interfaces help in this area a lot and are useful to give you an out of the
box and get up and running under a few hours. Now when it comes to performance,
features, control and tweaking though ... configuration files, ini files will
always give the complete control you need.
iPlanet Webserver also has a bunch of conf files, they just have nice GUI around
them that update the conf files so that you can feel successful on your first
attempt. Once you get used to it and want to do tweaking, iPlanet's admin guide
even tells you how to do it both ways, in the configuration files and also via
the GUI.
JSERV certainly lacks the GUI part and thus we see a bunch of posts from people
when they first try it out. It takes a bit to figure out what exactly is being
done and what means what but if you stick it out for a bit, you would have
learnt a bel"about the conf files etc. giving you understanding to be used in
the future to tweak and control things exactly as you want them.
Now I understand the frustration one feels when you are up at night trying to
figure it out but if that bothers you, you should remind yourself ... "I paid
$0000.00 for this piece of software" and you know if there are Java programmers
out there on this list, why doesn't someone step up and build a nice GUI to
update the conf file or a WIN installshield and management tool. Java provides
one of the fastest ways of building GUI for an app. I would do it but my
experience in Java is very limited.
Actually if I were to do it I would do it for Tomcat now not for JServ.
Abid Farooqui
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> I thought I would offer my 2 cents.
>
> I am a Senior QA Engineer at Informatica, whom makes data integration and
> data warehouse type products, which use a wide array of databases and ERPs
> and targets and sources. There is a web reporting mechanism of meta-data
> which uses Java servlet.
>
> We wanted to recomend certain products for use with our product. The
> original choices are iPlanet/Netscape web server, Allaire JRUN, and
> Apache/JSERV.
>
> However, during testing, I have elminated Apache/JSERV due to numerous
> problems encountered in just compiling JSERV. Apache compiles just fine,
> but JSERV has problems. I have limited time to due this, and I put my heart
> into this for a good 2 weeks.
>
> I however managed to get iPlanet working with little problems on HP-UX, AIX,
> and Solaris. I use the standard Java 1.2 that is supplied from the OS
> Vendors (downloaded freely from the internet and bundled with Solaris 8).
>
> I have to say that the configuration and setup of iPlanet is quite
> intuitive, with their fancy web based setup. However, JSERV not very
> intuitive, difficult to setup and configure, and initially get working.
>
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