DayTrader Update - 1.1 Release coming up

[Matt Hogstrom <ma...@hogstrom.org>]

I am in the process of moving DayTrader out of the 1.1 Geronimo branch.  Since this is a performance 
and J2EE sample I expect we'll be releasing it independently of Geronimo.  Here are a few things to 
know so far.

1. You can checkout DayTrader at svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/geronimo/daytrader  It is 
built nightly on the GBuild setup (thanks Mr. Blevins)

2. The only remaining modules left in the Geronimo tree is the database which I'll have converted to 
M2 this week.  When that is complete DayTrader will be built completely on its own and will simply 
become a dependency that can be included if desired.  (Vincent, if your interested in this piece 
I'll take your patches :)

3. DayTrader includes deployment descriptors for both Geronimo and JBoss.  I have not been able to 
get JBoss working yet with messaging yet so please do not consider these artifacts the best 
performing ones.  For the JBoss lurkers on our list, take a look and let me know if they can be 
improved; we know your out there ;-P  I'm happy to accept donations for DD's and deployment 
instructions for other AppServers.

4. 1.1 will be versioned this week or early next week.  This will be the basis for performance 
comparisons.  SNAPSHOT versions are not comparable as changes in the project can affect performance 
results.

5. I'll be adding a performance section to the WebSite this week so we can answer the FAQs about 
Geronimo and performance.

6. I'm looking to get DayTrader into shape so it can be installed from the Geronimo Plugins site. 
This will make installing the sample easier and also reduce our download and startup time for the 
Geronimo distributions for 1.1.

DayTrader Futures

* Someone is looking at providing a Spring / JDBC function that will extend the modes of operation 
of DayTrader.  There may be some work on EJBs as well.

* Stan Cox from IBM indicated that he wanted to include some modifications to the benchmark to 
include AJAX primitives and functionality.  Hopefully Stan will have some information soon to share 
on his recent exploits.

* We need to upgrade the benchmark to provide a more flexible deployemnt.  Right now all the modules 
are inter-related to some degree and have too strong of a dependency on each other.  I want to break 
the benchmark up in a way that you can deploy only the WebComponents if you want (Tomcat / Jetty 
testing) and that kind of  thing.

* JEE 5 improvements to exercise EJB 3.0 and the new persistence API.  OpenJPA will get engaged soon 
I hope so we should be ready for them.


If you are working on something or have some interesting information to share, send it in.

Cheers.

Matt

Re: DayTrader Update - 1.1 Release coming up

[Prasad Kashyap <go...@gmail.com>]

Matt,

Here's a patch that precompiles the JSPs in the web module. Please
give it a whirl.

Cheers
Prasad.

On 4/24/06, Matt Hogstrom <ma...@hogstrom.org> wrote:
> I am in the process of moving DayTrader out of the 1.1 Geronimo branch.  Since this is a performance
> and J2EE sample I expect we'll be releasing it independently of Geronimo.  Here are a few things to
> know so far.
>
> 1. You can checkout DayTrader at svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/geronimo/daytrader  It is
> built nightly on the GBuild setup (thanks Mr. Blevins)
>
> 2. The only remaining modules left in the Geronimo tree is the database which I'll have converted to
> M2 this week.  When that is complete DayTrader will be built completely on its own and will simply
> become a dependency that can be included if desired.  (Vincent, if your interested in this piece
> I'll take your patches :)
>
> 3. DayTrader includes deployment descriptors for both Geronimo and JBoss.  I have not been able to
> get JBoss working yet with messaging yet so please do not consider these artifacts the best
> performing ones.  For the JBoss lurkers on our list, take a look and let me know if they can be
> improved; we know your out there ;-P  I'm happy to accept donations for DD's and deployment
> instructions for other AppServers.
>
> 4. 1.1 will be versioned this week or early next week.  This will be the basis for performance
> comparisons.  SNAPSHOT versions are not comparable as changes in the project can affect performance
> results.
>
> 5. I'll be adding a performance section to the WebSite this week so we can answer the FAQs about
> Geronimo and performance.
>
> 6. I'm looking to get DayTrader into shape so it can be installed from the Geronimo Plugins site.
> This will make installing the sample easier and also reduce our download and startup time for the
> Geronimo distributions for 1.1.
>
> DayTrader Futures
>
> * Someone is looking at providing a Spring / JDBC function that will extend the modes of operation
> of DayTrader.  There may be some work on EJBs as well.
>
> * Stan Cox from IBM indicated that he wanted to include some modifications to the benchmark to
> include AJAX primitives and functionality.  Hopefully Stan will have some information soon to share
> on his recent exploits.
>
> * We need to upgrade the benchmark to provide a more flexible deployemnt.  Right now all the modules
> are inter-related to some degree and have too strong of a dependency on each other.  I want to break
> the benchmark up in a way that you can deploy only the WebComponents if you want (Tomcat / Jetty
> testing) and that kind of  thing.
>
> * JEE 5 improvements to exercise EJB 3.0 and the new persistence API.  OpenJPA will get engaged soon
> I hope so we should be ready for them.
>
>
> If you are working on something or have some interesting information to share, send it in.
>
> Cheers.
>
> Matt
>