RE: AS/400 Web Application Servers -- JAVA400-L

Patrick and Eric,

How do they sign-on?  It seems like you should be able to 
create an AS/400 user and associate it with the session.  
With Tomcat a user is just a String, but you do get the source 
and should be able to integrate whatever change you see fit.  
We do this on non-AS/400 systems running against our AS/400 
database.  The code took about 1/2 of a day, which is about 
1/10 as long as it took to get WebSphere running and configured.

This doesn't seem like a show stopper for Tomcat, is this just 
one of many reasons?  Someone else mentioned that Tomcat 
doesn't do a lot of things that WebSphere does, which is true.  
WebSphere is several hundred Meg of stuff, where Tomcat is 
about four.  As far as Tomcat not doing things like XML, JMS, 
etc. it doesn't but it certainly supports applications that do.  It 
seems that the available applications in this area are actually 
ahead of WebSphere's bundled applications.

David Morris  

>>> cyberlync@yahoo.com 04/19/01 02:22PM >>>
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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