[cobalt-users] Chat on RAQ3

["Tomi Crnicki" <tcrnicki@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi!

This is the second retry to get this question on the list. Hope it 
goes thru this time as I really need feedback! I don't think it is too 
much off topic. 

BTW, I am a member of the list but maybe under a E-mail alias 
and not as tcrnicki@xxxxxxxxxxxx: 

tcrnicki@xxxxxxxxx or similar!


So here goes the question once more:

Has anybody installed any kind of commercial chat server on a RAQ, 
especially on a RAQ3.

As far as I have found there are two solutions on Unix boxes:

1. CGI on the server (mostly Perl scripts) that generate HTML that 
is then viewed thru the browser

2. Java server with Java client viewed thru a browser/client with a 
Java Virtual Machine (JVM)


I don't undertand why there is no solution with a normal daemon 
acting as a server and a Java client interface. The Java server using 
Java Runtime Enviroment (JRE) seams to me a unnecesarry load 
to the server that should be running more important stuff than Java 
just for this Java chat daemon.

To do this I need to install the JRE on the RAQ but for that I also 
need a Java compiler (everybody is recomending the free In-Prise 
JIT compiler). Both of these tar.gz sources are quite big (together 
more than 25MB if I recall correctly).


My questions:

1. is there a solution for a chat with a Java client and a classic chat 
server daemon

2. if there is no solution mentioned in Question 1 has anybody tried 
to install the SUN JRE on a RAQ. Did (does) it work? Any 
problems on the server? How does it impact the CPU and network 
load?

3. if somebody succesfull did a SUN JRE installation was je In-Prise 
JIT compiler used or should I consider some other?


Please send all answers, opinions, etc. to me directly and I will 
post these as a single posting to the list!


Thanks in advance,

Tomi Crnicki - Abacus, Croatia
tcrnicki@xxxxxxxxx