Hello -

I'm looking to enable Java support for my customers, or at least for certain websites. I was wondering if anybody found a good solution for installing Jakarta and Tomcat, and whatever else is needed for full Java capability. I'd like to be able to support JSP and Servlets of course.

Thanks,
Ben Hughes

HTH

http://forum.rackshack.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4216&highlight=tomcat

I don't want to take you down, but I suggest to not try to provide jsp/servlets support if you're not familiarized with it, is not the same than provide php, perl, etc.

Originally posted by Jedito
I don't want to take you down, but I suggest to not try to provide jsp/servlets support if you're not familiarized with it, is not the same than provide php, perl, etc.

Jedito,

I see you provide JSP support ;) what kind of problems do you face?

My guess would be ..

lots of memory used up and a whole new system to learn.

JSP/Servlets is a complicated system to administer. You have the java envrinment itself, which is not easy to admin, and on top of it you have the servelet environment and on top of it you have JSP's. You will be dealing with web-applications, Beans, Taglibs, CLASSPATH's, and lots of other concepts.

Originally posted by Ahmad
My guess would be ..

lots of memory used up and a whole new system to learn.

JSP/Servlets is a complicated system to administer. You have the java envrinment itself, which is not easy to admin, and on top of it you have the servelet environment and on top of it you have JSP's. You will be dealing with web-applications, Beans, Taglibs, CLASSPATH's, and lots of other concepts.

I have done all this since long :) but what I'm interested in what kind of problems arise for web hosts? One thing you have mentioned is lots of memory. That's one problem.

What else? :) If everthing is configured as it should be, any problems out of nowhere?

No? then let me jump in ;)

Yes, memory leaks at Tomcat.
Tomcat is a diferent kind of animal, you can't compare it with PHP, Perl, etc.
Setting of private and shared JVM, Mysql Drivers, and a lot of things that I can't remember now.
Oh.. BTW, Tomcat and mod_gzip doesn't like each other :)

Also, I suggest to learn (if you don't already know) to program in java, it will save you a lot of time in troubleshooting.

Thanks Jedito,

I had a wild guess about the private JVM and shared memory problems. But it shouldn't be a big problem if you charge your customers according ;)

Originally posted by Jedito

Also, I suggest to learn (if you don't already know) to program in java, it will save you a lot of time in troubleshooting.

Actually I need to re-learn :D SCJP and done JSP programming for couple of projects :blush: but havn't touched Java for more than a year now :rolleyes: :bawling:

Actually PHP is too cool to resist :stickout