[Live-demo] Tomcat6 setup for deegree

Thu Sep 3 02:39:58 EDT 2009

Okay, then I will add a new Tomcat dedicated to deegree with the
deegree_install script and have one icon on the desktop. (One for each
webapp doesn't make sense, if they are all running in the same Tomcat.)

Tomcat6 (/var/lib/tomcat6/conf/server.xml) is running on ports:
8080,
8005 (shutdown),
8443 (redirect)

If no objections come up I would like deegree-tomcat to use ports
8081
8006 (shutdown)
8444 (redirect)

As time is ticking away and since disk space is limited, I will not
enable the Philosopher example in deegree WFS, as it needs extra
configured DB connection (PostGis).

My plan now is to unzip a new Tomcat, put four deegree webapps (WMS,
WFS, WCS, iGeoPortal) in the Tomcat webapp folder and have the install
script download this whole chunk to the /usr/lib/ folder of the LiveDVD.
deegree documentation may go into /usr/local/share/deegree.

Is this good?

Kind regards,
Judit

Cameron Shorter schrieb:
> Thanks Stefan,
> Stefan has more experience with this than me, so I'm happy to go along
> with Judit and Stefan's suggestion of using a different servlet container.
> 
> Stefan Hansen wrote:
>> Hey!
>>
>> I probably have to disagree slightly with Cameron. Given the
>> constraints of the DVD/VM, I think, Judit's suggestion to start Degree
>> in its on own servlet container is a good idea. Having everything in
>> the already installed tomcat basically means that you have to run all
>> apps deployed on Tomcat, even if you want to run only one. Especially
>> Deegree seems to require a fair amount of resources. So keeping it
>> separated makes sense to me. We probably should do the same with
>> Geoserver. It usually comes with jetty anyway, which is rather
>> lightweight and therefore a good choice for our purposes.
>>
>> As far as Postgres/gis is concerned, I think, it might be a good idea
>> to have a single instance running that is started during the boot
>> process.   Many of the apps on the VM/DVD will be able to access it.
>> It could provide a rather limited sample data set, which the other
>> apps can use in their examples. Of course we can also start postgres
>> whenever an app is started, that wants to use it. However, when I
>> worked on the earlier version of Arramagong I played a bit around with
>> that option and got the impression, that we don't gain too much by
>> doing that.
>>
>> cheers,
>> stefan
>>
>> Cameron Shorter wrote:
>>  
>>> Judit,
>>> You raise some good points here.
>>> As per: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GISVM_Build#Build_Drivers
>>>
>>> The GISVM and LiveDVD is targeted at a demo version. The aim is to
>>> highlight the product features, but it not expected to be tuned for
>>> high capacity of complicated scenarios.
>>>
>>> Our biggest constraining factor is lack of RAM. So to work around
>>> this, the policy is:
>>>
>>>    1. Do not start applications upon power up. (Ie, don't start deamons,
>>>       allow users to start them instead).
>>>    2. Set up examples which, by default, don't depend on other
>>>       applications. Less applications open, means less memory. Ie, Have
>>>       GeoServer access a shapefile instead of PostGIS.
>>>    3. Try to avoid scenarios which write data to disk, as disk space in
>>>       the Live DVD is stored in RAM, and is not cleared afterward.
>>>
>>> In your case, I suggest that you install all your applications into
>>> the one tomcat webapp rather than starting another. I'm assuming that
>>> having two web applications in the same webapp will not mean the RAM
>>> is consumed until the application is activated. Is this correct?
>>>
>>> If possible, I suggest that you allow the user to turn on Deegree web
>>> apps individually. Ie, create a different desktop icon for Deegree
>>> WMS, Deegree WFS, ...
>>>
>>>
>>> Judit Mays wrote:
>>>    
>>>> Hello all,
>>>> I've got a general question about the prefered set-up using the tomcat:
>>>>
>>>> Do you prefer to have all the deegree war-archives inside
>>>> /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps?
>>>> Or would you prefer to have deegree bring along its own tomcat, instead
>>>> of sharing it with GeoServer or other web applications?
>>>>
>>>> I've got a bit of a problem. I see that tomcat6 is running with a Java
>>>> heap space of 128MB. This is not enough. I would suggest 512MB for the
>>>> tomcat at least.
>>>>
>>>> And I don't know if it is such a good idea to add all deegree webapps
>>>> (wms, wfs, wcs, csw, wps, wpvs, iGeoPortal) either. Especially if these
>>>> webapps get started on start up of the system. This will reduce
>>>> performance not only for deegree, but also for any other webapp in
>>>> tomcat6 and maybe even for other desktop applications (depending on the
>>>> memory of the system).
>>>>
>>>> After all, we are talking about server applications that have specific
>>>> hardware needs. You can't expect every laptop and desktop pc to live up
>>>> to these needs. Are there any hardware specifics that you plan to
>>>> provide with the DVD?
>>>>
>>>> What I could do is reduce the list of deegree demo services to WFS,
>>>> WMS,
>>>> WCS (like GeoServer) and the deegree web client iGeoPortal.
>>>> Since WPS and WPVS are working better in deegree3 already, this
>>>> wouldn't
>>>> be such a bad idea. A demo for those services on LiveDVD would then
>>>> have
>>>> to wait until deegree3 is stable.
>>>>
>>>> Any thoughts, ideas or suggestions?
>>>>
>>>> Kind regards,
>>>> Judit
>>>>  
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