Hi, I'm a servlet newbie and thought they might be a solution to my
problem, but now I wonder.
I want to run a Big Ol' Number Cruncher (BONC) on a server. From my
Java client (NOT a web browser) I want to submit a job over the
network and have the BONC run it. Currently I do this locally,
which ties up the client machine.
If a servlet does this, can the servlet, at the client's request,
then send the BONC's zipped output file back to the client? (The
unzipped output may be hundreds of MB). Searches of the web and
O'Reilly's "Servlet Programming" have not indicated that this is
possible.
Are servlets too brain dead to do this sort of thing? I would prefer
not to run a web server on the BONC server. Should I be looking at a
different technology (Globus Toolkit seems like overkill)? Surely
this has been done before.
Any help would be appreciated! Many thanks,
Glenn
problem, but now I wonder.
I want to run a Big Ol' Number Cruncher (BONC) on a server. From my
Java client (NOT a web browser) I want to submit a job over the
network and have the BONC run it. Currently I do this locally,
which ties up the client machine.
If a servlet does this, can the servlet, at the client's request,
then send the BONC's zipped output file back to the client? (The
unzipped output may be hundreds of MB). Searches of the web and
O'Reilly's "Servlet Programming" have not indicated that this is
possible.
Are servlets too brain dead to do this sort of thing? I would prefer
not to run a web server on the BONC server. Should I be looking at a
different technology (Globus Toolkit seems like overkill)? Surely
this has been done before.
Any help would be appreciated! Many thanks,
Glenn