weblogic plugin on iSeries?

["Price, Chris" <chris_price@xxxxxxxxx>]

All,

I'm investigating putting a load-balancing web server in front of a Weblogic
Server cluster.

I was planning to use Apache HTTP with the weblogic plugin for this.

I had hoped to be able to use the HTTP Server on the iSeries for this
(something more reliable than a Wintel box, and besides, if the database is
down, who cares if you can't access the cluster...)

But digging around in the documentation for mod_so it states that:
"The mod_so module provides for loading of executable code and modules into
the server at startup or restart time. On the iSeries server, the loaded
code comes from a service program object with a .SRVPGM extension. "
ref :
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/iseries/v5r1/ic2924/info/rzaie/rzaiemod_so.htm

I assume that this means that IBM have re-written mod_so to use native
os/400 objects, rather than apache .so objects like the weblogic plugin,
mod_wl_20.so.

Does anyone know of anyway round this problem, or should I just give up now?

Or does anyone have any better suggestions for load balancing (with a budget
of $0 of course)...

Thanks,
Chris.


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