Re: Summing up the Icebreak discussion -- WEB400

My reason is fairly straightforward. As i have mentioned before, we have a customer running a Renaissance based application with Apache. It supports over 1000 concurrent sessions and most of the time is fine. Occasionally, however, it crashes. Nothing meaningful in any of the job logs, and no meaningful resolution from IBM despite them spending a long time analysing it. I would be happy if they could tell us in was caused by the application, but they can't.

I therefore want to find out if IceBreak can be a viable alternative. I am therefore currently introducing some changes to allow existing Renaissance applications to run with Apache or IceBreak.

So far, so good. It works. Too early to tell if it going to be viable in the long term though. Our apps are written for a stateless environment. I can't alter that - it would take months. IceBreak can support that ok, but it might mean I will not see performance improvements that IceBreak can allegedly offer compared to apache. It is also too soon to compare reliability.

If I don't try it, I will never know - and there is no harm in trying other peoples stuff. I have only used it for a couple of days but already I see it has some cool features that I like.

On 6 Jan 2011, at 18:23, "Richard Schoen" <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I haven't been following this conversation closely, so I have a couple of quick questions if you don't mind backtracking:

Why would I want to use a proprietary web server on iSeries if Apache is already there ?

What are the benefits of IceBreak ?

Is IceBreak commercial or open source ?

Thanks :-)

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date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 10:12:37 +0100
from: Bent R?nne <BRO@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: [WEB400] Summing up the Icebreak discussion

Henrik,

It is true that IceBreak is 100% developed and owned by System & Method. It is also true that IceBreak is independent of any third party software. You won't find a more native Web environment for IBM i than IceBreak - and of cause no Microsoft technology is involved!

We are 7 developers on IceBreak and IceCap. Niels is the Chief Technology Officer and he is primarily responsible for the product and the core of IceBreak together with me.

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Bent Ronne
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