If there's so much left over, it's probably time to give back to the thousands of people in the low-income jobs/factories that didn't get much out of the success of the last years but worked just as hard as everyone at infinite loop....
It wasn't only GUIs I have been programming, but it is 6 months back, so things might have changed and I may be wrong. I have been working with several EJB-Servers which were uttlery slow. The Tengah (sp?) Server brought NT on a P/166,64MB to an aprupt halt, no chance but 'reset'. A PII was needed as a minimum to run the server at all. This is where my guesses on speed stem from. But its good to hear that things are not necessarily that bad. I like programming Java very much, but speed kept me back.
In your place, I would reconsider whether you really schould use a Java-based solution, solely for the reason of speed. (In fact, I see many other problems in Java, but speed is what websites are about).
We have seen a lot of benchmarks for Webservers and it is a tight race. Using a RDBMS written in native code reduces response times, but its a database you want and these are the fastest you get. I have programmed Java for half a year in an internship, hab a pII/300 and 256Megs of Ram, and it was only just bearable. Imaginig some Java-based huge Database-backend to a highly frequented site is nothing I can imagine. No 'solution' using Java (be it as a means of Data Storage or even a highly used servlet) would be able of the figures that, say Apache and mySQL give you. I actually believe that you would need a really really big machine to manage this for a site that would be fine with some Cobalt RAQ and mySQL.
There were plans in the European Union to introduce such law (enfopol). This also would have forced the providers to allow monitoring in real time without the customer noticing it. This law were redrawn only at the beginning of this month after the European Parliament had already agrred on the law a month before. Now the UK will go their own way, as will many other countries in the European Union that are quite eager to know what people think, do, and feel.
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If there's so much left over, it's probably time to give back to the thousands of people in the low-income jobs/factories that didn't get much out of the success of the last years but worked just as hard as everyone at infinite loop....
It wasn't only GUIs I have been programming, but it is 6 months back, so things might have changed and I may be wrong. I have been working with several EJB-Servers which were uttlery slow.
The Tengah (sp?) Server brought NT on a P/166,64MB to an aprupt halt, no chance but 'reset'. A PII was needed as a minimum to run the server at all. This is where my guesses on speed stem from.
But its good to hear that things are not necessarily that bad. I like programming Java very much, but speed kept me back.
In your place, I would reconsider whether you really schould use a Java-based solution, solely for the reason of speed. (In fact, I see many other problems in Java, but speed is what websites are about).
We have seen a lot of benchmarks for Webservers and it is a tight race. Using a RDBMS written in native code reduces response times, but its a database you want and these are the fastest you get.
I have programmed Java for half a year in an internship, hab a pII/300 and 256Megs of Ram, and it was only just bearable. Imaginig some Java-based huge Database-backend to a highly frequented site is nothing I can imagine.
No 'solution' using Java (be it as a means of Data Storage or even a highly used servlet) would be able of the figures that, say Apache and mySQL give you. I actually believe that you would need a really really big machine to manage this for a site that would be fine with some Cobalt RAQ and mySQL.
Ben
Why slow them down needlessly ;-P
Ben
There were plans in the European Union to introduce such law (enfopol). This also would have forced the providers to allow monitoring in real time without the customer noticing it.
This law were redrawn only at the beginning of this month after the European Parliament had already agrred on the law a month before. Now the UK will go their own way, as will many other countries in the European Union that are quite eager to know what people think, do, and feel.