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

David,

  If I remember correctly (I don;t use this feature
much)tomcat does perform some type of secure sign in.
I am sure though that this is not a signin to the OS.
As for implementing it, your right it should be a
fairly simple change since tomcat is open source.

as for your second paragraph you are absolutly right.


--- David Morris <dmorris@plumcreek.com> wrote:
> 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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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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