Re: a design question

2006-10-13 Thread Mark Miller
An EJB container will generally not give you better performance than a non EJB container (other than it might be a more efficient...but that will not be because it is an EJB container). The main difference is that you will be able to use EJB's and the other Java EE goodies that a J2EE container pr

Re: a design question

2006-10-12 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
Gecko? ;) My advice: stay away from EJBs as much as you can. They are too complicated and too heavy for most systems. Servlet containers like Jetty, Tomcat, or Resin are often perfectly suitable for the job and a lot simpler. Otis - Original Message From: "Chenini, Mohamed " <[EMAIL

Re: a design question

2006-10-12 Thread Chris Lu
I think a standalone J2EE application will be good and better loose coupling than EJB. You can seperate memory, disk, and CPU resources from your main application. You can send results back in XML, JSON, or other formats. Chris Lu - Instant Full-Text Search On Any Database

Re: a design question

2006-10-12 Thread Bill Taylor
IN THEORY, EJB containers are better able than Tomcat to spread incoming requests over a multitude of servers. There was considerable discussion some time ago about index search speed on a single processor. I do not remember the details, but there was some information about how fast a search

Re: a design question

2006-10-12 Thread mark harwood
EJB explicitly precludes you from accessing files, including via third party libraries such as Lucene. http://java.sun.com/blueprints/qanda/ejb_tier/restrictions.html In practice you may be able to get away with it but I see no particular reasons why using an EJB server should offer any benefit