Does anyone think there is a demand by clients for allaire/macromedia jrun, i know java server pages are become more popular, do you think it is worth my time to purchase jrun $765 and install it on my server?

The requests we have been receiving for JSP has been increasing also. One customer specifically requested Allaire JRun, but I would be willing to bet there is a free reliable java server out there somewhere. $700 seems pricy for a single CPU license.

-Brian

I've checked around a bit, most clients require the jrun just because of the fact that it is sorta the standard, some of the free ones are crappy, not to meantion if it screws up, you have nobody to blame :-)

I recommend you try Tomcat first. JRun's problem is that sometimes for no reason, a JVM will die. Resetting it causes other JVM's to crash. Only think you can do is recycle all of the JRun processes. This does get tedious. Also, JRun promises autoloading of updates to servlets. This feature is broken as of 3.0.

I think the new JRun 3.1 (which is in beta) will fix the above problems. And my biggest complaint about allaire is that their support is horrible.

Why not use Resin ($500 commercial deployment), in benchmarks it beats TomCat and JRun, its very stable and very fast. http://www.caucho.com