Project Progress Report

I know that there is probably no one reading this blog but I consider it worthwile putting on paper (or the internet as the case may be) exactly where I am in terms of project completion.

As things stand I have completed the testing phase of my project and should no longer need to use the lab. What little testing I do now will be only for the purposes of verification if certain observations are unclear.

As for my progress through the report I have completed the first draft. The draft is totally unproofread and contains much that needs improvement. I expect to spend the following two weeks proofing and improving this draft.

The final stage of the project will be preparing for the presentation. This will be considered and time alloted once the report is complete.

Tomcat is faster than GlassFish

A slight worry in the back of my mind was that close tie between JSP and the server platform it is run under. In order to gain further information I spent today installing and running tests against GlassFish to compare with Tomcat.

The findings of this exercise were very simple: Tomcat is faster. This is as I suspected all along since Tomcat is purely a JSP capable shell wheras GlassFish is a complete enterprise capable application server.

Another useful thing I found out today is that PHP no longer supports ISAPI. Since people seemed of mixed opinion as to whether FastCGI or ISAPI should be used this a useful bit of information. Whether it is better or not FastCGI is the only supported technology that will work at speed.