You might think about using pws or some other mini server along with tomcat on each students machine. This might not be practical, I don't know, but it would work as a development environment, then you could hook them up to IIS for the final test. Just a thought.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm trying to setup a development server for one of our programs that will allow >students to do JSP/Servlet development. I have run an IIS server that supported >about 1000 students (no more than 150 running apps at a time.. about 50 at a time is >average) without many headaches... a crash a month at most. > > Part of the success of running the IIS server has been to isolate students into >their own process space (HIGH ISOLATED application in IIS) and creating tools to >monitor their applications. I don't see a way of doing this using Tomcat. > > 1) How do I isolate student applications into there own process space to prevent >them from crashing Tomcat (these students don't have much development experience)? > 2) I was tinkering with the ISAPI filter for Tomcat and read an article that it was >possible to load Tomcat in the same process space as IIS >(http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-3.2-doc/in-process-howto.html). Can this >technique be extended to load an instance of Tomcat for every student using IIS >process isolation (I realize this means loading a Java VM for each student process.)? > > With the current setup, IIS rarely crashes and runs extremely well... I would like >to have that same stability if we switch the program over to JSP/Servlets running >Tomcat. Anybody out there trying to run a similar program? > > Any comments or suggestions would be most appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Anthony Zoko > Network Engineer > DePaul University - CTI > http://www.cs.depaul.edu/ > > > -- > To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
