[news.eclipse.rt.riena] Re: Deploying Riena applications

[Christian Campo <christian.campo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Koen,

sorry it took me so long to come back to your question, but I was in a conference for the last 4 days (JAX 2009 in germany).

Riena does not have a real "Riena server". The thing that might be refered to as Riena server is Server-side Equinox, so 
an Equinox running within a servlet container.

There are multiple ways to host that:
- Jetty embedded
- Jetty with WAR
- Tomcat with WAR deployment

You can also host that in a proper commercial application server like Webshere or Weblogic or JBoss using a WAR deployment.

There is also something out there call PAXWeb (which I learn on JAX) http://wiki.ops4j.org/display/paxweb/Pax+Web

What Riena currently brings to the table here is that we have a servlet for doing the remote service stuff and we 
configure that using the http.server and http.registry bundle and extension.

Which deployment scenario is right for you is your call :-)

More information on server-side equinox can be found here http://www.eclipse.org/equinox/server/

hope that helps. if not let me know and promise a better response timing next time.....

regards
christian



Koen Jans schrieb:
> Hi All,
>
>
> I'm pretty new to Riena, as well as to OSGI.
> Suppose you'd write a full blown Riena-based application,
> how would this application be hosted on the server-side?
>
> - I read some threads on "own riena servers", is this necessary?
> - Can a regular tomcat server be used/extended to achieve this?
> - Is there any relation to SpringSource DM Server?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Koen