Real World 'Struts Web Sites'

[Mohan Panigrahi]

Hey Ranchers,
I am faced with a decision-making rut and I really need your inputs on this. We need to decide how struts scales to websites with millions/hundreds of thousands of hits. Could you please share your experiences with examples how did you finally decide to go (or not to go!) with Struts for your web-applications.

I have worked in struts off and on, but none of the applications I worked have been up on internet for millions of users...hence the need.

Thanks!

[alan do]

cingular.com
circuitcity.com
directv.com

we have struts fronting an app that was tested for 300 simultaneous users for 1/2 hour straight doing heavy DB queries with no problem. the app sits on 1 server that is shared by other apps. i'd imagine you want to load balance across a few servers for an app to be served to 1M+ users.

[Merrill Higginson]

The issue of scalability keeps coming up in this forum, and I'm not sure why. When you think about it, Struts is nothing more than a few handy utilities that help you write J2EE web applications.

When you start to look at scalability, the important questions are:

How scalable is J2EE in general?

More importantly, how scalable is the specific application server you are going to run your J2EE application on?

How much money are you willing to spend on hardware and software to provide for a large number of concurrent users?