Hi Amy, You don't need "a full J2EE server" (whatever Oracle's decided that term means this week) to run WO apps — just the servlet container.
And yes — running as a servlet, your timed tasks will run just as in a standalone application. I've deployed quite a few WO apps as servlets and it's easy — and sysadmins love it, since they know how to deploy wars, and it requires no addiional processes, plugins or configuration (beyond what's required for "standard" java webapps). Please don't hesitate to ask if you have problems. Cheers, - hugi On 21.7.2011, at 23:55, Emilian Bold wrote: > I'm no expert in WO deployment but I've recently tried something a bit more > complex than what you want (maven .war file generation for deployment) and > failed. It seems the WO community doesn't use Java containers very much. > > Now, from what I've read about WO, you should be able to run it in a normal > container as there is a dispatch WO servlet. I don't think you need a full > J2EE container, you should be ok with just a servlet container (but I'm > saying this just from reading the documentation, not experience). > > Regarding your timer, if you use WO I guess it could support that somehow but > a servlet is like a direct action -- it just responds to user requests. > Scheduling could be done via something as simple as crontab or something > heavy like Quartz (http://www.quartz-scheduler.org/ ); you might also be able > to spawn your own thread and do it manually but that's not encouraged since > the container is supposed to manage that. > > Anyhow, if you really want to stick with WO, the easiest way seems to be to > use what's tried and tested (wotaskd), otherwise you'll have your work cut > out for you just figuring you the integration part. > > --emi > > > On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Amy Worrall <amo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all! > > I'm considering developing an app for a department at my university. > I'm talking to the university IT department about hosting it. In the > past I've only deployed on WebObjects itself, mostly on OSX Server, > but that's not going to happen here — anyhow, I don't know very much > about deploying Java stuff in general. > > I asked about Java hosting, and got this message back: > > "If you're looking for a servlet container (and not a full J2EE > server) and an RDBMS then there is a possibility that we'd be able to > provision you a Solaris 10 zone with Apache httpd and Tomcat on it. We > wouldn't put a database on here, but would typically make [space in] > an Oracle 10g schema (on a separate server) available." > > They also offered Windows IIS with SQL Server, or Linux with LAMP, but > he doesn't know whether they support Java on those platforms (said > he'd get back to me, and asked how firm a requirement Java was). > > Question is, what's the difference between a servlet container and a > full J2EE server? Would that option work for deploying WO stuff? Is > there anything I'd have to worry about when writing an app with WO to > deploy in that package? > > One thing I'd like the app to do is periodically (e.g. daily) download > a data feed from an external source. With a servlet deployment, my app > is still continually running so I can use a timer for such things, > right? > > Thanks, > > Amy > > -- > http://www.josekibold.ro : Honesty & well-done software. > _______________________________________________ > Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. > Webobjects-deploy mailing list (Webobjects-deploy@lists.apple.com) > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-deploy/hugi%40karlmenn.is > > This email sent to h...@karlmenn.is
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