Re: Zones question

[Mike Kienenberger <mk...@gmail.com>]

On 5/16/06, Andrus Adamchik <aa...@apache.org> wrote:
> http://www.apache.org/dev/solaris-zones.html
>
> I saw some messages mentioning Apache Solaris zones. So I was
> wondering whether it is appropriate to use a zone for the project
> build server?
>
> Specifically Cayenne project releases are tested against 10 or so
> different databases (Oracle, Sybase, DB2, etc.....), so our build
> server has to have all those resource-hungry RDBMS installed and
> running. It is probably unreasonable to expect Apache zones server to
> be able to support all different project requirements and we will
> continue using our existing servers outside the ASF, but I was
> curious what the zones are normally used for?

That sounds like a reasonable use to me.

MyFaces uses zones to run continuum, which both builds nightlies as
well as runs the tests continously (and populates a maven repository).

I think we're also planning on eventually hosting our JSF examples in the zone.