Installation Type Differences

[Mark_Forsberg]

I am unclear on the difference of the Multiserver Installation vs the J2EE Installation.
From reading the docs it sounds as though the Multiserver installation is the same as the J2EE Installation except that you are installing to a machine that does not have JRUN or another J2EE Server installed. We will be using JRUN. Am I able to do the same things with the Multiserver as with the J2EE Install?
Thanks.

[Newsgroup_User]

From reading the docs it sounds as though the Multiserver installation
is the same as the J2EE Installation except that you are installing to a
machine that does not have JRUN or another J2EE Server installed. We
will be using JRUN. Am I able to do the same things with the Multiserver
as with the J2EE Install?


Well, multi-server installs and runs under a JRun installation. My
understanding is that the main difference is where does one configure
and administrate the multiple instances.

With the multi-home version you CAN configure and administer the
multiple CF instances from the root CF instance 'CFusion' as well as
from the JRun Server administrator. When you open the base
CFIDE/Administrator/index.cfm tool, there is an "Instances" section
where one can add, remove, and access other instances under the
multi-home configuration.

With a J2EE, Jrun or another, you would configure and administer the
multiple ColdFusion instances from the Java administration tools.

Other then that, I doubt there is much difference.

[LL]

That's correct.
The multi-server configuration includes the Instance Manager and the Cluster Manager.
Creating and deploying ColdFusion as an EAR or WAR file does not (J2EE Option)

Please see About multiserver configuration and Installing an EAR file or WAR files