[OKC JUG] Guidance

[Jackie Oram]

Sorry for not being more detailed with my question.  Jason guesses well.  :)
   
  My users are all the colleges and universities in the state.  We've maintained a huge database of all the students, courses and faculty at each since the late 70's.  We've been operating on fixed-length flat text files for data submission and Cobol legacy code to error check all the fields reported.  
   
  I am self-taught in Java.  Have in my spare time written a Java application to replace the legacy Cobol.  The submitted data comes to us in several parts:  a demographic "record", an enrolled courses "record", a professional staff "record" and a courses offered "record".  Depending on the record type, up to 54 "elements" can be checked for valid entries or consistency with reporting of others elements.  An error line will be written out for every problem.  We require the institutions to correct and resubmit replacement data.
   
  My application was originally written to take data submissions in the old format and write out a text file of errors.  Now I need to learn XML and figure out how to set this up so that the institutions can run their own "edits" remotely.  
   
  I will read and re-read all the information received from you all.  Thank you so much Brian, Jason and Jeff.
   
  I hope to learn even more in Dallas this weekend at the NFJS.  
   
  Jackie

Jason Lee <jason at steeplesoft.com> wrote:
  On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 2:52 PM, <jeff at bowmansarrow.us> wrote:
    I like jetty. It has a lighter footprint than most others and it's pretty
fast. JBoss is also a good idea, deploying applications is a snap, it's
fast but heavier footprint. Glassfish is huge, but it sports a nice web ui
to install apps pretty easily. If you download Netbeans, I think glassfish
comes with it as a deployment server.


I'll put on my GlassFish fan boy hat for a moment... 

GlassFish is not significantly larger than JBoss, afaik, and, as you noted, comes bundled with NetBeans 6+.  In my (admittedly old and unscientific tests), GlassFish outperformed JBoss in our brain-dead metrics.  Both are, of course, heavier than Jetty, but, not having used Jetty in a long time, I can't comment much on well JSF 1.2 (which you should be using for new JSF projects) or Facelets (which you *really* should be using for ANY JSF project) work under Jetty.  Having said all of that, given Jackie's recent intorduction to JSF, the path of least resistance is probably advisable, which means the very nicely integrated GlassFish app server.  As luck would have it, that also gets one the best app server on the market for free. :P

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Jason Lee, SCJP
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