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Re: [Xen-users] Announcing XenMaster



I'll set it up and give it a shot.. Heck I'd love to have a usable
frontend for my junior admins to use.

On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 11:53 PM, Jordan Tomkinson <jordan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 8:03 AM, George Shuklin <george.shuklin@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
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>> ...but sorry, why do you use a richfat and plumby Java backend? There are
>> a lot of smaller, ressource efficient, incomplex and easier to handle open
>> source technologies - even full oo - available to build such a HTML
>> management front- and even backend?
>>
>> We agree that in comparison to xm/xl/xe, running a Java stack might seem
>> to be a bit on the heavy side. Yet we'd like to note that our back-end is
>> nothing like Tomcat or Glassfish, it contains only the bare minimum needed
>> to do its work.
>>
>> To elaborate choosing Java for our back-end:
>> - Java applications can be deployed on a wide variety of operating
>> systems, if not all.
>> - Eventually the back-end will also be orchestrating pools or clusters.
>> - The back-end parses responses and shrinks updates down to only the bare
>> minimum, limiting bandwidth use by the front-end.
>> - The back-end allows access to your servers over a single TCP/IP port,
>> the Xen-API will not be publicly exposed.
>> - Again we’re not running a whole Java EE stack, the front-end is a webapp
>> that lives on its own and communicates with the backend over a WebSocket
>> connection.
>> - Coupled with Cassandra, the back-end is the only thing that needs to be
>> run (one single instance), for any number of hosts.
>>
>>
>> I'm very against Java. After Oracle license change sun-jre package was
>> forced to be removed from the most distros. Right now Oracle does not
>> properly supports any dpkg (deb) based Linux distrubition, providing only
>> RPMs and some creepy tarball. This actually means 'very bad linux support'.
>> And if we looks how Oracle do business we can see no future for nice
>> multiplatform support. Yes, there is open-source implementation for JRE, but
>> it still uncomplete, and, again, resistance to publish opensource code for
>> certification is looking ugly.
>>
>> So using a 'half-opened' open-source solution, where specification is
>> controlled by not-very-opensource-friendly company for new open-source
>> product is really bad idea.
>>
>>
>> HTML5 is much more open standard, so using html5 is more proper solution.
>>
>> ... OK, let's forget Linux. Looks at windows. IE will supports HTML5 out
>> of box. And future is looking promising. And how about Java? Yes, you need
>> to download it, install is separately, it starts to nagging about updates,
>> and it does not supports for windows system updates, so you need to update
>> it manually. Again, comparation Java VS HTML5 is not toward Java.
>>
>>
>
> I have to agree with George here, the mere mention of java makes me want to
> burn this thing before it can breed.
> no matter how small you plan on making it, it could be done more efficiently
> in any other language.
> instead of allocating resources to my virtual machines we are now expected
> to allow how many hundreds of megabytes of memory to java ?
>
> No thanks, you can keep it.
>
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