Andre- let me know your thoughts on re-architecting to EJB JBoss is an all or nothing ..meaning JBoss needs god access to the ports or it wont startup Sun's App Server called GlassFish is alot more user-friendly with a very intuitive graphical admin interface for installing and configuring components both EJBs and shared-libraries
Martin ______________________________________________ Disclaimer and confidentiality note Everything in this e-mail and any attachments relates to the official business of Sender. This transmission is of a confidential nature and Sender does not endorse distribution to any party other than intended recipient. Sender does not necessarily endorse content contained within this transmission. > Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 17:54:02 +0100 > From: a...@ice-sa.com > To: users@tomcat.apache.org > Subject: Re: Websphere / Apache similarities > > Christopher Schultz wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > André, > > > > On 3/3/2009 10:57 AM, André Warnier wrote: > >> Does anyone on this list have any knowledge of these, in particular > >> their "compatibility/similarity" with respectively Tomcat v ? and Apache > >> httpd v ? > > > > Tomcat's only real "compatibility" questions are: > > > > 1. What servlet/JSP specification are we talking? > > 2. Need "full" J2EE support (EJB, MQ, etc.)? > > > > #1 can be answered here: > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Websphere#WebSphere_compatibility_matrix > > > > Looks like the equivalent Tomcat version would be 5.5. > > > > #2 is also easy: Tomcat does not support that stuff. Chuck's suggestion > > that JBoss might be a better comparison is a good one. There's also > > Sun's Glassfish. > > > > I'm not sure about Websphere's httpd-like capabilities, but Websphere > > /is/ Java-based so you'll have all the oddities that you may have heard > > of when using Perl from Java or having to write filters to do things > > like mod_rewrite or mod_headers do for you in httpd (urlrewrite, your > > favorite Java tool, is of course a good option for the former). > > > Chris and others, thanks for the above info. > The following is a quote from Eric Covener on the Apache httpd list. I > believe he is one of the Apache httpd committers. > > quote > > WebSphere Application Server is not related to Tomcat, except that > they implement some of the same standard. > > IBM HTTTP Server is Apache HTTP Server-based with notable difference > of SSL (runtime and module). Versions 6.x are based on 2.0.x and 7.0 > is based on 2.2 > > ... > mod_jk would be replaced by the websphere plugin > mod_perl you'd have to provide yourself and may take a little effort > to build against IHS. > > unquote > > So, it looks like : > > - Websphere itself is a Java servlet server, unrelated to Tomcat despite > my mistaken impressions to the contrary, but implementing the same > servlet specification as Tomcat. It seems to have additional > functionalities compared to Tomcat, but since I do not understand them > and think I don't need them, it should be ok. > I basically wanted to know if I could run a couple of servlets on it > which I run on Tomcat (answer most probably yes), and run also the > UrlRewriteFilter (also probably yes) and the Jespa NTLM authentication > filter (maybe yes, I'll ask ioplex). > Websphere by itself, like Tomcat, can probably serve static content too. > > - in addition to Websphere proper (the servlet server), there is also an > Apache httpd derived IBM HTTP server in that package. It uses a > different httpd/servlet server connector than mod_jk > , and may or may not support mod_perl easily. Which for me means it > doesn't, since I probably won't have time to work out the kinks. > > That is all valuable information, and I thank everyone. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™ Groups: Create an online spot for your favorite groups to meet. http://windowslive.com/online/groups?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_groups_032009
