SV: [thelist] architecture question

Raditha Dissanayake jabber at raditha.com
Mon Nov 10 10:31:08 CST 2003


Hi,

I read an interesting stat some where that most companies that buy very 
expensive app servers only use the servlet container in the end. :-)


Marcus Andersson wrote:

>Maybe they just want to relieve the app server from serving static files
>(which is actually quite common) and let it focus on the stuff it's
>there for, that is, creating dynamic content for your site. Weblogic is
>quite expensive so if you remove handling of static stuff from it I
>guess you can get more dynamic content for the money (less number of
>servers). Btw, are you using EJBs or something else that requires a full
>J2EE container such as Weblogic?
>
>/Marcus
>
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>
>Hi folks,
>
>We have an interesting archtecture for our main site here and I was
>wondering if someone could elaborate on whether it was a good, bad or
>indifferent type of thing, and if it is common or not.
>
>Things are divided into two groups. On a Weblogic server (the App server
>we call it) are jsp pages and associated java files, etc. The pages are
>actually .html pages that get processed into jsps (that part I don't
>know much about) after some processing for various things.
>
>On the other side is an IIS web server that serves up all the images,
>PDFs and some static files.
>
>I'm wondering why the split, if it makes sense and so on. I've gotten a
>couple of half-baked explanations here which did not make sense.
>
>Tom 
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