The link to your site times out. On 8/19/07, Johnny Kewl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to show you guys something that I think may blow your minds. > > Firstly let me just say that I call myself a hobbyist, dont consider myself > in the same league as the guru's that work on Tomcat and Apache, but I do > spend an enormous amount of time playing with technology. One can almost > measure how much I like a technology by how much time I stay in the mailing > lists, on Postgresql I think it was 3 months, and I really like that product, > on Tomcat it must be close to a year and still counting, what a fantastic > product. > > In our office Tomcat is now officially the delivery mechanism for everything. > First I was impressed with Tomcats web abilities, then more and more with > its container ability, we discovered that it can run any code, and even if it > wasnt intended for the web, we started sticking applications into Tomcat > anyway....that idea has now come a long way. > > I call it a POJO Application server, I've mentioned before that we actually > popping full java applications out of browsers, but then it was very much > something only I could use, messy libraries etc. What I've done now is (try) > make a more professional package, and it would be really nice if the guru's > just have a little read about this unbelievable servlet, and let me know what > you think, if just to see how someone is using your Tomcat, in a very unusual > way. > > As you will see, I dont like EJB containers, but I love Tomcat, and it was > almost inevitable that this would happen. > All I will say is that this is no ordinary application server... not unless I > missed something and you can also just drop a POJO application into the > others and make it remoteable. > > I think its a new way of looking at application servers, it feels like a > discovery to me, but then who knows maybe there is something out there like > this, I dont know, all I do know is that when we drop this servlet into > Tomcat, we run POJO applications over the wire as if they were right their on > the client machine, the same applications that will also run standalone on > the machine. Its so different that I really struggled to find the relevent > theory behind this technology, I think I'm close, but any pointers or > corrections would be much appreciated there as well. > > Anyway, would just like to thank all the Tomcat'ers that have helped me out, > people like Chuck, Bill, Christopher, Leon, David, Mark, Mladen... and if I > forgotten you, sorry, so many, it really is the best mailing list on the web. > > Oh! you'll see its only certified for Tomcat ;) > Only thing left to do now is see if I get Tomcat to make coffee, and clean > the pool... and maybe get this to run on something fishy, you know, just in > case someone needs a real application server ;) > > Thanks http://coolharbor.100free.com/index.htm > Johnny
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