Re: WAS necessary for running WebFacing?

To run Webfacing you need either (a) WAS on the iSeries, (b) Tomcat on
the iSeries, or (c) Tomcat on another box (ie, standard pc server).

We found that although our iSeries has wonderful performance for
everything else, it was very slow for the few Webfacing users we had.
Apparently our box teetered near the minimum memory requirement.  So we
set up Tomcat on an old PC off the shelf, changed the address in the
users' links, moved Webfacing's output ".war" file (unmodified) to it,
and wonderful performance resulted.

A helpful resource (provided by an IBM friend) was Craig Pelkie's
article: 
http://www.the400group.com/aej/july04.jsp
(I don't remember if this is a site you need to subscribe to.)

Bill Reed
Rock of Ages Corp.

 

-----Original Message-----
From: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Eduard Sluis
Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 11:30 AM
To: wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [WDSCI-L] WAS necessary for running WebFacing?

Dear All,
   
  On of our clients is reluctant to start using WAS just to be able to
run WebFacing.
  They have heard it is also possible to use TomCat for this.
  Is this correct and where to get info?
   
  Kind regards,
  Eduard Sluis.