On Nov 8, 2005, at 10:39 AM, James Cicenia wrote:
Hello -I have been requested/ordered to deploy on Linux. So, what is my best approach? Currently, our site has been humming along rather well on the MacMini running Tiger Server, mySQL 4.1, WO 5.2.4 and Apache 1.Hmm, maybe Linux on an iPod?! Ok, I digress.We will be getting two nice IBM xSeries 335s. So, can I make the jump now to mySQL 5? Apache 2? Should I just go the jBoss route and deploy a WAR file? or is there a better/simpler/easier way? Our development environment will stay OS X and will not change in the foreseeable future.
James:I just had luck setting up Apache 2, Jakarta Tomcat 5.5, and mod_jk. While I know little about JBOSS, I find it a bit "fat" for just deploying WebObjects applications and if my success with Apache2 and Tomcat proves to last, I'm going to stop using JBoss for WO. You can strip JBoss down to a bare minimum, but I haven't tried that. Meanwhile Tomcat appears a lot leaner and uses less memory (at least with its default FreeBSD configuration). You CAN serve straight from Tomcat without the mod_jk adapter if you don't need to serve many static pages, but then you've got to bind tomcat to port 80. It's really not hard to get it working. Tuning may require some expertise, but for my own single application, single server deployments, the only settings I've had to adjust is java's heap size.
My feeling about this problem is that your WO application should be the unique component in this system. Why throw JavaMonster or mod_webobjects into the brew as well?
As for the particular deployment method--stub war, true war, ssdd, etc.--this choice should be determined by your own comfort level with the deployment process and the particular deployment configuration. I've found true WAR to be hassle free, but I bet that if I put a lot of WO apps on one server, I'd want to find a way to share the WO libraries between applications rather than bunching them up in each individual app.
Cheers, benjamin doherty in chicago
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