Application server

[GG]

Hello.

I have to design multitier database application.
Establishment:
1. In the same time in application will work 60 users.
2. Application use relational database.
3. On the client side it should not use to match resources (only gui
with data presentation)
4. Opensource

Is reasonably in this case use applicaton server ( for example jboss,
GlassFish )?
Mayby I should write my own Corba server ?

thanks in advice

GG

 

[Jon Martin Solaas]

Is reasonably in this case use applicaton server ( for example jboss,
GlassFish )?

GlassFish I don't know, JBoss, Geronimo, Jonas etc. would be reasonable.
You could also do fine with just a webcontainer (Tomcat for instance)
and use some nice frameworks like Spring or/and Hibernate.

Mayby I should write my own Corba server ?

Why? If you really need multi-language, multi-platform distributed
support, it'd make sense. Still CORBA doesn't give you anything on the
GUI level. Most opensource java appservers has at least a web-container
for web-gui, like Tomcat, and possibly ejb-container for ejb's as well.

If your gui is Swing, you could use CORBA as middleware and utilize jdbc
with some nice framework to get persistence, and you'd have a full
application stack without using any application server.

If you plan to have a web gui you'd need an application server in some
form anyway, so why not run the entire application stack inside JBOSS.