That's a great idea, Eduardo. I'm out next week but will revisit that
when I return.
Gail
Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart wrote:
> Hi Gail -- YOu could start a weekly blog with a recap of what has
> changed in the Wiki. That will make it easier for people to see what is
> available, what new Qs need answering, etc.
>
> - eduard/o
>
> Gail Risdal wrote:
>
>> That sounds great, Tom! I was traveling yesterday and didn't see this
>> thread and your good list of questions until just now. I was just
>> about ready to pipe in and say, "These sound like great questions for
>> the User FAQ!," but I see you've got that covered.
>>
>> Gail
>>
>> Tom Amiro wrote:
>>
>>> Shreedhar,
>>>
>>> Super answers. I'll work on getting them into the new user FAQ as
>>> Bill Shannon suggested.
>>>
>>> Tom
>>>
>>> Shreedhar Ganapathy wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'll try answering some
>>>>
>>>> Tom Amiro wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'd like to share questions we were asked by attendees at our
>>>>> Glassfish pod during Boston Tech Days. For some, I'd like to get
>>>>> back to the person with a good answer; for others, it just would be
>>>>> good to know more.
>>>>>
>>>>> * Is there a way to secure communication between client and
>>>>> service without having to manually install certificates on
>>>>> systems? Maybe an API to create certificates or a way to
>>>>> dynamically establish trust?
>>>>> * Is there a simple way to change the admin user's password using
>>>>> the Admin Console?
>>>>> * In reference to the Clusterjsp demo we showed, one attendee
>>>>> asked what are instances and is there any legitimate use for
>>>>> having a cluster on a single machine?
>>>>>
>>>> Instances are Java EE server processes to which Java EE applications
>>>> can be deployed and served from. In a clustered environment, a
>>>> number of instances are created to help distribute the load of
>>>> incoming requests (assuming these are fronted by a load balancer or
>>>> an IP sprayer) and to build redundancy for continued availability of
>>>> service without interruption due failure/crash of one or more
>>>> instances in the cluster. In other words, a cluster of instances
>>>> prevents a single point of failure in the software layer of your
>>>> topology.
>>>> Going a step further, session state replication provides continued
>>>> availability of both service and session data so that site's
>>>> customers can be agnostic to failures of software processes/hardware.
>>>>
>>>> Having a cluster on a single machine limits the ability to
>>>> horizontally scale and creates a single point of failure (that of
>>>> the machine's failure). So for a non-mission critical business, one
>>>> may choose to have a (hopefully) multi (core or) cpu, single machine
>>>> with sufficient RAM to host a cluster of instances to save space,
>>>> cost and possibly energy costs. Ideally two boxes at the minimum
>>>> with 2 network interfaces each would help bring hardware redundancy
>>>> for any software service that is being offered in a cluster of
>>>> instances.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> * A few persons wanted to see lists of who (companies) are using
>>>>> GF. We showed them the blogs.sun.com/stores page, but is there
>>>>> a more comprehensive list?
>>>>>
>>>> correction on the link : http://blogs.sun.com/stories
>>>>
>>>>> * Others asked for statistics on the market share of GF compared
>>>>> to other Application Servers.
>>>>> * Of course we got the question from quite a few: What is an
>>>>> application server?
>>>>>
>>>> A piece of software that serves applications through the internet to
>>>> provide a service.
>>>> Java EE Application Servers do this by implementing the Java EE
>>>> Specification.
>>>>
>>>>> * Why is glassfish named glassfish?
>>>>>
>>>> Its see-through :)
>>>>
>>>>> * Does the portal server run on GF?
>>>>> * Does java.net run on GF?
>>>>>
>>>>> * One very interested person asked, do you have a sales kit,
>>>>> promotional material, brochure, fliers, datasheet, etc that I
>>>>> can take to my management to get them interested in GF?
>>>>> * Does GF support Ajax?
>>>>>
>>>> Checkout http://ajax.dev.java.net or http://jmaki.dev.java.net and
>>>> http://blueprints.dev.java.net for real world ways to use /Web 2.0
>>>> /technologies with Java EE.
>>>>
>>>>> * Does GF have something comparable to IBM's JAM plugin to
>>>>> support mainframe updates?
>>>>> * For load balancing, does GF have a plugin for Apache web server?
>>>>>
>>>> Sun Java System Application Server 9.1 officially supports load
>>>> balancing using Apache Web Server and mod_jk plugin, also Microsoft
>>>> IIS 6 and Sun's Web Server 6.1sp5 and 7.0
>>>> A number of blog entries have been written in blogs.sun.com or
>>>> java.net on supporting Apache web server for load balancing and
>>>> proxying to GF.
>>>> One such example with additional links in it:
>>>> http://blogs.sun.com/dadelhardt/entry/loadbalancing_with_mod_jk_and_glassfish
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --Shreedhar
>>>>
>>>>> Tom
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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