RE: AS/400 Web Application Servers

Patrick,

  Youve got me there. any of the 400 specific things
that IBMs http server privide Tomcat can't simply
because it is cross platform.

--- Patrick L Archibald
<Patrick.Archibald@HOMETELCO.COM> wrote:
> Hi Eric
> 
> After reading this testimonial on Tomcat, I
> installed 
> it on our AS/400 today.  Installation 
> was pretty easy and it seems to be lightweight. 
> 
> The problem with using Tomcat for my particular
> application is 
> I use basic authentication in the http configuration
> (5769DG1)
> for our employee Intranet which requires the 
> employee to sign-on using their user profile and 
> password. This enables me to get their user profile 
> in servlets via:  request.getRemoteUser().  
> I can then limit their options according to who they
> are.
> 
> When using Tomcat I loose this ability. So I'll 
> be sticking with Websphere V3R5, even though it 
> is a bear to work with on an underpowered machine 
> (9406-620-2175-832MB-V4R5).
> 
> My apologies to those who find this off-topic. :)
> 
> Thanx, PLA
>   
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-java400-l@midrange.com
> [mailto:owner-java400-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of
> Eric Merritt
> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 9:51 AM
> To: JAVA400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: AS/400 Web Application Servers
> 
> 
> Hello All,
> 
>   I am not sure how many of you are aware of it, but
> there is a Open Source production grade web
> application server out there that is simple to
> install
> and configure, takes about a quarter of the
> resources
> of Websphere and is more compliant with sun's
> specifications. Best of all its free. Its called
> tomcat and you can get it from jakarta.apache.org. 
> 
> We have used websphere for our production
> application
> server since v2.01 and we have had nothing but
> problems and trouble since we upgraded to 3.0 (now
> we
> are at 3.5). We recently found tomcat after reading
> an
> article in Midrange Computing (the give some source
> for as/400 start scripts etc). So if you are have
> alot
> of trouble with websphere I would check out tomcat -
> all the information says its just as stable, even
> clusterable now, and cost of ownership in the long
> run
> is much cheaper. 
> 
> Now, if any of you IBM people out there know
> something
> I don't feel free to give a rebuttal, but so far in
> my
> personal experiance Tomcat is a much better product
> overall.
> 
> =====
> Eric Merritt
> Information Systems Consultant
> McCormack & Associates, Inc.
> Rock Hill, South Carolina
> (V) 803-327-3358 X 225
> eric@mccinc.com
> http://www.mccinc.com/
> 
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Eric Merritt
Information Systems Consultant
McCormack & Associates, Inc.
Rock Hill, South Carolina
(V) 803-327-3358 X 225
eric@mccinc.com
http://www.mccinc.com/

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