[MUD-Dev] Modular Design Issues RFC

[Daniel.Harman at barclayscapital.com]

On 16 February 2001 04:35
J C Lawrence [mailto:claw at kanga.nu] wrote

> On Thu, 15 Feb 2001 13:16:33 -0800 
> Ryan Rhodes <ryanshaerhodes at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Although it doesn't really matter, I'm thinking at the moment I'm
> > going to run it from an NT or 2000 machine.  

> Part of this preference is based on a generally dim view of
> Microsoft products, along with the more simple fact that MS will no
> longer support or ship Java or a JVMs on or with their products
> (IIRC).

I think you are incorrect with respect to this. Microsoft has stopped
shipping J++ (a shame as it was hands down the best Java dev
environment although they did try to push you towards their
proprietory tech. JBuilder really isn't much cop) they do however
continue to ship JVMs.

With respect to using Win2k, I don't share your dim view although I
would be concerned about scalability. Especially when using
Java. Having said that I'd be concerned about scaling using Java on
Unix too. On NT especially I'd be worried about the socket
implementation that Java will abstract for you.  The way NT/2k is
designed means that traditional implementations of async sockets
aren't very efficient. One needs to use completion ports for true
scalability and this may be hard to expose from Java. Then again
seeing as you are running under a JVM who knows how good any
implementation will be?

I suppose it depends on how many clients you want to be able to
support...

Dan
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