Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lew Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: tools for programming applets Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 22:06:42 -0400 Organization: albasani.net Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <028d2009-98b7-43a3-b02d-83eaa89db79e@glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.albasani.net mY58LUNF3Zi1mJU7zidmIZb/ckhgKXN6PEBubnq8IidokpNzDkymyYVVLpTUw2RYj9C2ddK17D6MWb01+MgUSOHni5fFX7tSIts4XAfHMrVKC0egt0fhxOSuIGko8hNE NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 02:06:33 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="7/QFAy/SfjSvMKDxicoucXFsIXqAHZBc8UiIqlfck6aA1O+cD7zn8lMzzNFjcj/VKcbaZ5tCxT6ctjlxebg8K4aGykwlX3lDQX+UVAT5/0r7QbedpvYsGCwhj+Frf0T8"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@albasani.net" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110424 Thunderbird/3.1.10 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:AB4b3tR+pZNlFh882xyjyMGnBuw= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:4434 On 05/22/2011 09:11 PM, markspace wrote: > On 5/22/2011 5:34 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > >> Then I can run test and production systems side by side on the same server, >> guaranteeing identical configurations for both. > > > This is an interesting idea. I hadn't considered running a test system on a > production server, but it makes sense, I think, in some cases, to be able to > test the new system "in place," so that things don't go wrong when you try to > do a big change-over to a new system. Sure, as long as you don't bring down the production server to do your tests. So many tests require a stable, re-creatable environment, and often that involves hard or soft server restarts. If there are performance or security requirements imposed on the server, having test stuff on there almost certainly will violate them. Load testing? Ha! Really, not a very good idea to put tests on the production server. Actually, a really terrible, terrible idea. Ghastly. Most places I've worked would consider firing a person for even suggesting such a thing. -- Lew Honi soit qui mal y pense. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/Friz.jpg