J2EE and Web Hosting

[Bill Green]

My current web hosting provider supports a private JVM, servlets and JSP.
Since they don't support J2EE, can I install this my self? What would I need installed to support EJB?
Thanks,

[Ashik Uzzaman]

And to add with Green, is there any free J2EE container like Tomcat for Servlets/JSP? Is Sun's J2sdkEE work with EJB2.0?....A downloadable link so that i can test EJBs...plz...

[Axel Janssen]

I am thinking about the same.
Why not install one of the big server? You may take an evaluation download.
Here is the bea link: http://commerce.be a.com/SoftwareProductDetailWLS?SWName=WebLogic+Server+Evaluation+Software&SWVersion=Version+6.1+SP2&SWPlatform=Microsoft+Windows+NT%2F2000
Problem is that you need a lot of CPU to get it running (at least 512 MB RAM, I'll try WebSphere with 256 @home or buy more RAM if it does not work). I try IBM, because this company I steal the time from is quite IBM-related. The installation process of IBM WebSphere 4.0 is good documented: http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedbookAbstracts/sg246176.html?Open
O.k. its not easy. Its lots, lots, lots of download. And its better to use the integrated IDEs. But in the job-market they ask for knowledge in the big servers.
If you like the Sun reference implementation: look here (I think the server is included. I am not sure)
http://java.sun.com/j2ee/download.html
Hey. In the search for this posting I noticed that Roman: Mastering EJB2 is accessible for free download at http://www.theserverside.com
or is it , because I read too much last weeks?
Axel
[ January 17, 2002: Message edited by: Axel Janssen ]