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| Re: Virgo Server for Apache Tomcat - Production Usage [message #899389 is a reply to message #899238] |
Tue, 31 July 2012 16:25   |
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Hi,
I'll try and answer your questions.
1. Virgo Server for Apache is the most stable varient of Virgo and several companies have been using it very happily in production. Some I can't mention but VMware is using it internally, which is why VMware staff work on Virgo including myself. Also, CME group are using it.
2. Springsource, a division of VMware would be happy to sell you commercial support for Virgo (but not the core Equinox runtime itself), Tomcat and/or Spring, please email either myself or Glyn (the project lead) and we will put you in touch with the right person.
3. OK, so you already know about our big two production users and I've already mentioned internal use by VMware. SAP are using it internally as well. Their are others but I can't talk about them, sorry.
4. This blog post gives some headline comparisons between the different variants of Virgo but we have not done any major benchmarking of it against other enterprise servers.
5. Virgo aims to be a simple and extensible Enterprise server with a focus on being lightweight and promoting OSGi as the programming model in compliance with enterprise specs from the OSGi alliance. Several of the Virgo committers are involved with relevant spec work at the OSGi alliance. Please read the front page of the website for a more detailed description.
I hope that either gives you more information or points you in the right direction. I really wish I could mention other companies using Virgo in production. Please feel free to come back with any other questions.
Chris.
(frostc at vmware.com)
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Chris Frost, Twitter @cgfrost
Springsource, a divison of VMware.
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| Re: Virgo Server for Apache Tomcat - Production Usage [message #899581 is a reply to message #899407] |
Wed, 01 August 2012 14:03 |
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Hi,
Both JBoss and Weblogic support OSGi bundles on their runtimes but aren't built on OSGi. We believe Virgo is an Enterprise level application server but one that focuses on OSGi (and War files) only. This gives us the advantage of having a small footprint in terms of both size and runtime resources compared to traditional J2EE application servers.
I should also point out that Apache Tomcat/Jetty both run embedding inside Virgo, not the other way round. Virgo is the application server and Apache Tomcat/Jetty is the embedded servlet support. As such it wouldn't make much sense to embed Virgo in something like JBoss as their would be a lot of overlap in functionality.
Hope that clears things up a bit,
Chris.
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Chris Frost, Twitter @cgfrost
Springsource, a divison of VMware.
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| Re: Virgo Server for Apache Tomcat - Production Usage [message #900011 is a reply to message #899238] |
Fri, 03 August 2012 12:43 |
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If it helps, I can also share my production experience. We're running central identity and web session management for most of our company's web applications in Virgo Tomcat Server 3.0. This means it handles a database of >800k accounts in total and >60k unique users logging in daily, and provides near real-time responses (each request for any of our web applications' pages triggers a background request to Virgo) with absolutely no problems.
Considering all of this amounts to 100s (1000s in peak hours) of requests per second and that we had a similar system running on standalone Tomcat before with similar results, I would say you're pretty safe assuming that Virgo Tomcat performance and stability equals that of the stock Tomcat, which should be enough of an assurance.
I must admit I was a bit nervous about both performance and stability, as Virgo does wrap Tomcat into an additional layer of OSGi-induced complexity, but it turned out to be unnecessary. The only incident, after 4 months of uptime for the Virgo process, was actually caused by a system problem (that dreaded leap second addition on July 1st that triggered a bug in Linux kernel/libc and disabled the JVM), and since that was fixed, again, it's running smoothly as before.
So, from the aspect of performance/stability, for me this battle-proves it beyond any doubt.
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