Java on Rimu is great

[luciano]

Hi,

I'm a Java developer and I'd like to invite all others to rate Rimu on Servlets.com (http://www.servlets.com/isps/servlet/ISPReviewView?id=337).

Rimu is a perfect resource for me, and I can recommend it to all Java developers that need a home on the web for their work. I'm not a Linux geek, but this is not a problem thanks to the excellent setup (it worked out of the box, no changes needed) and to the complete HOWTOs.

I just needed to fix the default encoding (guillaume suggested me the solution here (http://forums.rimuhosting.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=37)): my /etc/sysconfig/i18n file is now:

LANG="en_US.ISO-8859-1"
LC_ALL="en_US.ISO-8859-1"
LANGUAGE="en_US.ISO-8859-1"

This is a very important setting for non-English Java apps.

[goopot]

Hi,

I'm running a debian VPS and it doesn't come with java on as default (or else I've missed it!).

What's the recomended way to install the j2sdk? I see a java-common for apt together with lots of other java related things. Then from the Sun site has a self extracting binary (plus an rpm) . Then finally there is the blackdown project that has apt packages on sarge.

Any advice on which one to go for?

Dave.

[retep]

Yeah, our debian setup is minimal (by design).

The download from Sun will be your best bet.

With java, do be careful to set a -Xmx setting. Else Java will quickly absorb all the memory on your VPS then segfault when your VPS runs out.

[guillaume]

Hi,

I'm using tomcat and java a lot on Rimu. I recommend to use a dedicated service, otherwise you will pay for swapping.. You need a minimal amount of memory to start a service, then tomcat sessions will be lower (of course depending of your code...). -Xmx=128 is the minimal to start (in use -Xmx=256). Obfuscation is also necessary to win space...

I suggest to the rimu team to add java development tools on their platform, this will help :roll:

Regards