Ann Mary wrote: > > am relatively new to servlets, my question is that > how can i make the servlets distributed. >
Are you talking about the <distributable> element of the <webapp> deployment descriptor? Or are you talking about having a non-<distributable> servlet talk to a distributed set of, say, database servers? If you're talking about <distributable> on Tomcat, then you might want to check over on the Tomcat users list at: http://jakarta.apache.org/ There's a link to the mailing list over on the left hand side, you probably want "tomcat-users". Servlets can support as many users as you're willing to buy hardware for, but for very high loads there's more to it than just setting the servlet to be distributable. You start getting into things like special hardware to do load balancing, etc. The Tomcat list has some very knowledgeable people who can point you in the right direction. The servlet spec: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/download.html has details of the guarantees that servlet containers are supposed to make about distributable webapps. You can do a search for "distribut" and you'll hit the high points. I'm not sure how well the topic is covered in the newest crop of servlets books, but I'm sure somebody will be willing to follow up and suggest a book with a good overview (anyone?) It's a pretty big topic, so the more specific you can make your questions, the better people will be able to answer... -- Christopher St. John [EMAIL PROTECTED] DistribuTopia http://www.distributopia.com ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
