Showing posts with label Application Server. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Application Server. Show all posts

Thursday, 16 October 2008

SaaS and J(2)EE

Introduction

Multitenancy refers to the architectural principle whereby a single instance of software runs on a software-as-a-service (SaaS) vendor’s servers, whilst serving multiple client organizations (tenants). This is in contrast to multi-instance architecture where separate software instance or hardware systems are set up for different client organizations. in other words, under a multitenant architecture, applications are required to virtually partition data and configuration so that each client organization works with a customized virtual application instance. Customization typically includes aspects like user interface branding, access control, data and configuration, workflow, etc
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Saturday, 27 September 2008

Who needs an application server?

If you are primarily building web services then I would give this question serious consideration.

Why spend a fortune on expensive and complex JEE application servers when the combination of Apache Tomcat, Axis webservices (or your favourite open source alternative), Spring AOP container, ACEGI security framework, Hibernate or iBatis persistence frameworks offers a very viable and free alternative?
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