perfsonar development work

["Michael Bischoff" <>]

> http://geronimo.apache.org/
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Hello all,

Geronimo uses tomcat as it's webcomponent(wel having looked it up, I found
that it allows jetty or tomcat to be used as a webcontainer.)

Which brings me to the point I was going to make:
http://cwiki.apache.org/GMOxKB/both-geronimo-and-tomcat-are-created-by-apache-what-is-the-difference-between-these-projects.html
"Tomcat only provides a Servlet container, suitable for hosting web
applications. Geronimo is designed to implement the entire J2EE (now known
as JavaEE) stack, which includes: a Servlet container, an EJB container,
messaging provider (JMS) and Java Connector (JCA) container. A more
interesting question would be about the relationship between these two
projects, but hopefully someone else can speak to that."

We don't need EJB, JMS, JCA etc support do we? If so then what the use of
tomcat over geronimo? and why geronimo over other implementations:


JEE application servers, Sticking to the opensource projects:
(Not having researched it extensively, from what I could gather)

Glassfish - webcomponent is called grizzly - jetty appearandly also makes
use of grizzly. See:
https://glassfish.dev.java.net/javaee5/webtier/webtierhome.html resp.
https://grizzly.dev.java.net/

Geronimo - webcomponent is tomcat or jetty.

Jonas http://jonas.objectweb.org/ - webcomponent tomcat or jetty.

Tbh if we keep within the J2EE specification(and I haven't encounted cases
where we don't) it should currently work, but untested, under any
Servlet-container. This means the above, Jetty, Tomcat, standalone grizzly
but also for example resin.

Now a replacement for axis, to something actively beeing developed, might
not be a bad idea. Of the top of my head there is Axis2 and xfire. A small
search leaves me with http://xfire.codehaus.org/Stack+Comparison

If it's speed we're after the biggest gains imo will come from letting
lose a profiler on the code base and change a bit of the achitecture(this
doesn't have to be radical at all).

I hope it's the response you where looking for,

greetings,

Michael