Developing on a different platform from production

["Penberthy, Bill" <BP...@IQNavigator.com>]

Generally, we try to to develop and test on the same platforms (Solaris)
that we will be deploying on - but I am curious as to whether that is really
necessary.  Has anyone ran into issues of developing and testing on one
platform and deploying on another?  I would like to put some Linux machines
out there (a bit cheaper...) for development and testing - but am wondering
if this could cause problems as we deploy onto the Sunboxes.  Your thoughts,
experiences, and comments would be welcome.

Thanks!

Bill Penberthy
Sr. Functional Architect
IQNavigator

Re: Developing on a different platform from production

[Ben Ricker <br...@us-rx.com>]

It depends on what you mean by 'test'. If you are doing load testing, 
then obviously this will not do as the platform and OS can dictate 
performance. Also, there are differing problems in the jdks based on 
platform: Sun jdk w/Hotspot has had some problems lately which do not 
crop up on the other jdks (Sun's jdk is usually ahead of Linux's, or so 
I have noticed. 1.3 was in beta well after 1.3 was released for Sun).

However, if you are just talking about functional testing, I think going 
to a Linux box is Ok.

Btw, have you seen the new Netra series of Sun boxes? They are damn 
cheap and may be an alternative to Linux. I myself suport a web app that 
runs on Linux is production but will move to a Linux/Sun load balanced 
solution soon.

Ben Ricker
System Administrator
Wellinx.com

Penberthy, Bill wrote:

> Generally, we try to to develop and test on the same platforms (Solaris)
> that we will be deploying on - but I am curious as to whether that is really
> necessary.  Has anyone ran into issues of developing and testing on one
> platform and deploying on another?  I would like to put some Linux machines
> out there (a bit cheaper...) for development and testing - but am wondering
> if this could cause problems as we deploy onto the Sunboxes.  Your thoughts,
> experiences, and comments would be welcome.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Bill Penberthy
> Sr. Functional Architect
> IQNavigator

Re: Developing on a different platform from production

[Oki DZ <ok...@bdg.pindad.com>]

Dick Poon wrote:
> 
> Me too, I do the development on Window and going to deploy it on Linux:-).

Hm.. that's interesting; I do the other way around.
Try Gnome, you'd love Linux on your desktop.

Oki

Re: Developing on a different platform from production

[Dick Poon <di...@javacatz.com>]

Me too, I do the development on Window and going to deploy it on Linux:-).

Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Benoit Jacquemont" <be...@smile.fr>
To: <to...@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 12:32 AM
Subject: Re: Developing on a different platform from production


> Hi Bill,
>
> We are developping on MS Windows 2000 boxes (as a lot of people I think),
and
> we deploy our apps on Linux servers (again, as a lot of people... ;-) ).
>
> We never had any problems, but we always compile the source code on a
> development machine running exactly the same environment as the server.
> Anyway, we used to compile on Windows and deploy on Linux, and we never
had
> any problem of incompatibility. Now our compilation of the source code on
the
> same OS is just a consequence of a quality plan.
>
> Benoît
> > Generally, we try to to develop and test on the same platforms (Solaris)
> > that we will be deploying on - but I am curious as to whether that is
> > really necessary.  Has anyone ran into issues of developing and testing
on
> > one platform and deploying on another?  I would like to put some Linux
> > machines out there (a bit cheaper...) for development and testing - but
am
> > wondering if this could cause problems as we deploy onto the Sunboxes.
> > Your thoughts, experiences, and comments would be welcome.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Bill Penberthy
> > Sr. Functional Architect
> > IQNavigator
>

Re: Developing on a different platform from production

[Benoit Jacquemont <be...@smile.fr>]

Hi Bill,

We are developping on MS Windows 2000 boxes (as a lot of people I think), and 
we deploy our apps on Linux servers (again, as a lot of people... ;-) ).

We never had any problems, but we always compile the source code on a 
development machine running exactly the same environment as the server. 
Anyway, we used to compile on Windows and deploy on Linux, and we never had 
any problem of incompatibility. Now our compilation of the source code on the 
same OS is just a consequence of a quality plan.

Benoît
> Generally, we try to to develop and test on the same platforms (Solaris)
> that we will be deploying on - but I am curious as to whether that is
> really necessary.  Has anyone ran into issues of developing and testing on
> one platform and deploying on another?  I would like to put some Linux
> machines out there (a bit cheaper...) for development and testing - but am
> wondering if this could cause problems as we deploy onto the Sunboxes. 
> Your thoughts, experiences, and comments would be welcome.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Bill Penberthy
> Sr. Functional Architect
> IQNavigator