X11 and Heavy loadbalancing?

choice15@gmx.de choice15@gmx.de
Mon Nov 18 04:29:00 GMT 2002


> I *think* I understand what Jack  is trying to do.  The normal
> term for what he is attempting is host integration.  This is where
> host-based applications are integrated into web-based applications.
> The most common example of this is the IBM product Host On Demand.
>
> The obvious way to do host integration with X Windows is to use the same
> approach as HOD.  Use a java applet implementation of X (WeirdX) and place
> the applet in a web page.  This approach has the same problem as HOD - a
> very heavy applet download.
>
> PapaFox

Hmm, I think the Enduser should not use an Applet to use X-via Web.
A More efficient Way is an normal Java Desktop-Application that can
be autoupdated via the Webstartfeature (in JDK 1.4.0 Standandard allready
involved)

The original Projectplan was based on my Idea, to construct up an easy to
use
 "Free-Software" CrossPlatform alternative against the commercial CITRIX /
MS-Windows
 Terminalserver dominated Environment for Endcustomers with the Security of
SSH and
Highavaiability on Serverside (Disk I/O, Logon-Speed, Failoverc,
Enterprisefeatures)

On my Ressearche i have found:

1.An Applicationserver such as (commercial) Oracle 9iAS or JBoss (free)
(J2EE 1.2-Compliant)
   brings up an scalable faulttolerant, scalable, highavaiabil Framework for
Servercontainers.
  (Such as E-Mail, HTTP, SOAP, SMTP, POP3, Faxserver, X11, Filerserver and
so on)

2. The ORACLE J2EE compliant Applicationserver has implemented a lot of this
Features
   (called as CollaborationSuite) and all Servercontainers like E-mail
server can be simply "checked "
   into the runnign AppServer  (for Example: "java -jar
./myOnwnSMTPServer.jar")
   (it detects and installs the new J2EE Container automatically, by the
Path of an XML-Installdefinitionfile)

3. The J2EE-Appserver Certificationprocess at SUN Microsystems restrict
propritary Extensions
    to an J2EE Appllicationservers to enforce compatibility to the Java
Enterprise Standard
    (J2EE ServerContainers can also run on  JBoss  (the OpenSource
Applicationserver)

4. Java is Platform Independant and has rolebased Security Conecepts, it is
working on every
    Environment, all J2EE ServerContainers can use this Features, the only
things to do is, writing,
    code for the Serverside Support of XFree to Support Java X-Clients like
Weired.

5. An other Critical Position is the Disk I/O-Traffic and the RAM usage by
every User
    thadt runs Hugh Applications on Serverside like OpenOffice, WINE and so
on.
    (ps: i know thadt the Displayresults is only worked out by the
X-Clients, ok?)

6. To solve the Problem for Disk I/O and RAM Usage, a Databasedrivven
Filesystem
    is a Powerfull choice (like the ORACLE Internetfilesystems IFS).
    (Note: Microsoft implements MS-SQL-Serverfeatures in to the Windows
NTFS6-Filesystem,
    but Oracle has this Feature over 2 Years ago on the Market and has spend
its Sourcecode
    to the OpenSource Comunity under the Terms of the GPL)

Ok, it is a big Project and a lot of Work to implement/configure a more
advanced Solution as
Microsoft/Citrix-Metaframe, but a great Challenge.

Greetings from Germany,
Jack



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