RE: Links to external files not in web application

2005-03-28 Thread Smith, Thad
almer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 1:38 PM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: Links to external files not in web application But my application is also going to create them. My app needs to generate the PDF and save it off so that it won't need t

Re: Links to external files not in web application

2005-03-28 Thread Nic Werner
Brad Balmer wrote: Many different people/groups need to access these so I thought that the first person in would generate it and save it to a common location. Then, the next user in would see a link to the PDF instead of re-generating it. I obviously don't know your users, but beware of your expe

RE: Links to external files not in web application

2005-03-28 Thread Brad Balmer
al Message- From: Smith, Thad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 1:25 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Links to external files not in web application Are you expecting the application server that runs your Struts application to serve up these pdf f

RE: Links to external files not in web application

2005-03-28 Thread Smith, Thad
Are you expecting the application server that runs your Struts application to serve up these pdf files? If so, this is a no no! Application servers (and servlet containers) are geared to run with lower numbers of more processing intensive threads than a simple http server will. I would recommend p