[Laszlo-dev] Thoughts on deployment?

[Michael Duffy]

Use the Eclipse Laszlo IDE inside Eclipse

http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/ide4laszlo

Create a J2EE based application containing eclipse components, and then
use Eclipse to export a WAR / EAR file.

Copy the war file into your tomcat webapps directory and you are just
about ready to go....

Would be interested in seeing your prototype in due course.

Good luck,

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: laszlo-dev-bounces at openlaszlo.org
[mailto:laszlo-dev-bounces at openlaszlo.org] On Behalf Of Jon Gilkison
Sent: Saturday, 22 January 2005 12:01 AM
To: OpenLaszlo platform development and bug reporting; OpenLaszlo user
community discussion
Subject: [Laszlo-dev] Thoughts on deployment?

Having just been through the woes of tracking down performance issues,
deploying a laszlo app has become a concern of mine, simply because
I'm not at all familiar with Java or Java servlets.

Right now we're deploying our prototype with IIS 6 and Tomcat via the
Tomcat ISAPI redirector.  I think this is fine for showcasing the
prototype, but I have concerns about this as a deployment strategy for
an actual production piece.

I was wondering what thoughts/experiences people had on deploying
production Laszlo apps.  If the prototype is sold, then we're looking
at a site that gets upwards of 250,000 to 500,000 unique visitors a
month.  Since the backend is entirely .NET, I'll obviously be
deploying that part on a farm of windows servers, but I'm wondering
what the best option is for deploying the laszlo portion.

One thought I had was placing the laszlo app on a linux or bsd box
(boxes) using Apache and Tomcat and having that speak to the .NET
backend.

So I guess my questions are:

- Is there something more stable and performanced tuned than Tomcat?
- Is it better to do a webserver + java app server, or will just the
app server suffice?
- Is there a performance benefit to going with Linux/*BSD over
IIS/Tomcat?

Thanks,

Jon.
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