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We have a situation where we are looking to install Solr on RedHat Linux to be used with Windchill 10 where Windchill will be running on HPUX. For Solr to run, it has to run inside of Windchill meaning that we have to install Windchill on the Linux server. We'd have 3 application server nodes in that scenario where the users would point to either app1 or app2 running on HPUX. The Linux server would only be processing Solr activities.
I'm looking for opinions on if I would have any problems with this mixed environment. Please don't ask why we aren't just doing everything in HPUX or Linux...we are talking through those options. I'd just like to get some opinions out there on this mixed scenario.
PTC has stated that we are in uncharted waters as they haven't tested this type of mixed scenario. They are saying that "There is a risk that, if you mix JVM versions, if the system has to pass a serialized object from one JVM to another, it may not work correctly." I thought that the beauty of Java is that you can run it on any platform and it should work. Thoughts?
We don't plan on mixing 32 vs 64bit. Our linux installation is going to be 64bit.
What I'm hearing is that while there is risk that something might not work, the general consensus is that it probably will. Anyone else have any thoughts?
Thanks for the feedback so far.