Scott,
Most customers don't want to know about or get involved in installing an
appserver. The app my company produces has been sold for over 4 years,
is purely web based, and started live as a JSP/.Servlet combo, and I
beleive that less than 20% of sales have gone to companies who know what
an appserver is let alone have the technical experience to install one.
The customers do run the app on a server, but from our point of view
(and theirs) having a small installable download makes the product more
attractive than including a bloatware piece of software which includes
an entire app server.
Al.
P.S. At the moment we ship the product with a minimal version of Jetty
5, precompile the JSPs, and it seems to work well.
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This sounds a little suspicious! When you say " I cannot assume a Servlet
container to be installed on machines my app will run on" what do you mean?
I would hope you are planning to host this from a server someplace, right?
Not sure about your environment, but you could always use an ISP to host
your Struts application. I use DailyRazor and have full control over the
server and none of the headaches of babysitting the machinery.
Scott
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 7:08 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
I am currently working on a little application which needs a user interface
for administration. I think an embedded app server with a Struts based
application might be a good choice. But one big obstacle is in the way, I
fear: the size of such a solution.
What do you think is the minimal solution giving the comfort of a Struts
based approach and not dominating the workhorse app with tons of jars only
needed for the small admin part?
Jetty as an App server? Or Tomcat? Or some other, really small? Struts 1 or
2 (I would think Struts1 is the smaller solution)? Or shouldn't I attempt
this approach and write a simple servlet? What do you do?
I cannot assume a Servlet container to be installed on machines my app will
run on. There might be multiple instances of my app running on the same
machine. The UI should work over the network although a console based
approach might be possible, too.
Thanks in advance
Martin
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