Re: [Exist-open] Howto for alternate web servers to jetty?

[Jonathan C. <j.c...@bt...>]

Dannes &  Dmitriy,

thanks so much for taking the time to reply, I know little about  
servers, so your patience is appreciated.

I very much would like to use exist-db,
this project has an archive with many small xml files
it uses xslt to visualise as svg in the browser client-side.
there is  also a 'live' game in the browser environment, so I/O is  
critical.
other relevant terms are closure, threads and blocking**

a  brief  description of the benefits of nodejs is here:
http://nodejs.org/#about

nginx is common  to nodejs and exist-db, and I hope this will help:
3. Deploying eXist in a Servlet Container
http://exist.sourceforge.net/deployment.html#N101C6

regards

Jonathan Chetwynd

** "The benefit of Node as a platform is that it exposes apis that
actually make it difficult to do sync i/o in your code.  It would be
nice to take advantage of the mountains of useful Java libraries out
there.  But as Bradley points out, most of them have blocking i/o
calls and thus aren't suitable for the environment Ryan has created
with node."

from this thread at nodejs which may be helpful "why not Jetty?"
http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs/browse_thread/thread/281c06e48fd9bd23?hl=en#



On 4 Jul 2010, at 21:38, Dannes Wessels wrote:

> sorry,
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> what is your actual question?
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> nodejs -never heard of it before- does not seem to be a commonly  
> used webserver. It is not built on top op standards like servlets,  
> jsp, is it? Therefore not really usable for us, IMO.
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> As Dmitriy said, for existdb  you can use most of the servlet  
> containers currently available. Believe me, jetty is a fast  
> webserver, there is no need for us to switch, but maybe you have  
> some good arguments?
>
> regards
>
> Dannes
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> On 4 Jul 2010, at 10:41 , Jonathan Chetwynd wrote:
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>> Howto for alternate web servers to jetty?
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>> I'm particularly interested in nodejs, but any guiidance would be
>> appreciated.
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>> regards
>>
>> Jonathan Chetwynd
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> Kind regards
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> Dannes
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