[stellation-res] Windows Port

["Jonathan Gossage" <jgossage@xxxxxxxx>]

I have now got Stellation working under Windows XP. The testing environment
included the Sun JVM version 1.4.1_02 and the database was Firebird 1.5 Beta
3 with the Jaybird JDBC driver 1.00 RC3. All tests were run on a dual
processor 1,6Ghz machine with Athlon P2000 processors and 2GB of memory.

I have both local and server based operation working. It is interesting that
running a server environment rather than a local environment where both
client and server are on the same physical machine is nearly 3 times as fast
with my test configuration.

I found that running the ant script in a server based environment took 5
min. 45 sec. whereas running it in a local configuration took 14 min. During
the remote tests CPU usage on both processors was approximately 50%. Go
figure :-)

The next step is probably to address documentation. Our current
documentation is completely Linux centric and I think it would be difficult
to combine the two environments in a readable interleaved form. Accordingly
I recommend that I produce separate Windows oriented documents. If you all
agree with this approach, I will try to factor out common stuff that is not
platform specific into includable units that can appear in both documents.

Thoughts

Jonathan