more friendly documentation --------------------------- Key: JBSEAM-2659 URL: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBSEAM-2659 Project: JBoss Seam Issue Type: Task Components: Documentation Issues Affects Versions: 2.0.1.GA, 2.0.0.GA Environment: any Reporter: Sebastian Hennebrueder Priority: Minor I would propose a more friendly formulation in the documentation. See my mail on the developer mailinglist http://lists.jboss.org/pipermail/seam-dev/2008-February/000021.html ------- existing formulation In almost all enterprise applications, the database is the primary bottleneck, and the least scalable tier of the runtime environment. People from a PHP/Ruby environment will try to tell you that so-called "shared nothing" architectures scale well. While that may be literally true, I don't know of many interesting multi-user applica- tions which can be implemented with no sharing of resources between different nodes of the cluster. What these silly people are really thinking of is a "share nothing except for the database" architecture. Of course, sharing the database is the primary problem with scaling a multi-user application—so the claim that this architecture is highly scalable is absurd, and tells you a lot about the kind of applications that these folks spend most of their time working on. ------------- alternative formulation: In almost all enterprise applications, the database is the primary bottleneck, and the least scalable tier of the runtime environment. People from a PHP/Ruby environment state that their lightweigth architecture - which is not sharing resources - scales well. We do not agree here. A PHP/Ruby will share the database which is in large scale application normally already the bottleneck. Lightweight can be fast in smaller applications but is not scalable. This chapter explains how Seam uses caching to provide a architecture which is fast and scalable at the same time. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira