RE: JAVA400-L Digest, Vol 4, Issue 224

It's all about platform options, cost and ease of deployment.

There are a lot of customers we talk to who still don't have the iSeries 
horsepower to run Websphere. 

From my understanding Websphere also costs money on most non-iSeries 

platforms. 

We write cross platform software and wanted a single, no cost servlet 
engine to deploy across all platforms. 

The most accepted and versatile engine in my opinion is Apache Tomcat. 

Of course if you're already using Websphere, there's maybe no reason to 
jump to Tomcat. 

But for the rest of us who agree that Tomcat is a great servlet engine, 
give it a whirl and have fun. 

Regards,
Richard Schoen
RJS Software Systems Inc. 
"Providing Your....iNFORMATION NOW!"
Email: richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Web Site: http://www.rjssoftware.com
Tel: (952) 898-3038
Fax: (952) 898-1781
Toll Free: (888) RJSSOFT




"Raj Prathinidhi" <rajpra@xxxxxxx> 
09/21/2006 12:52 PM

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1. Tomcat 5.5.15 Installer for iSeries (richard@xxxxxxxxxxx)

Good that Tomcat works on i-series. But, why would I use Tomcat when
Websphere comes with i-series? Websphere web-container should do all
that Tomcat does.

Am I missing something?
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date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 09:54:54 -0500
from: richard@xxxxxxxxxxx
subject: Tomcat 5.5.15 Installer for iSeries

Since RJS is using Tomcat as the Java servlet engine of choice for our 
cross platform applications, we needed to make its installation and 
deployment easier for our customers and support technicians. 

Since Apache Tomcat is Open Source we have also decided to make our 
installer contribution open source by sharing our easy Tomcat install 
process with other iSeries professionals interested in writing cross 
platform applications with Java/JSP/Servlets/Etc. 

You now have no reason not to dive in and start checking out java for
web 
programming. We've made it easy for you to install and deploy Apache 
Tomcat on V5R1 - V5R3. Just make sure you read our instructions and make

sure you have the Java JDK 1.5 on your iSeries. 

Note: We have only tested on V5R3 so far.  However V5R1 and V5R2 should 
work if the JDK 1.5 is available. 

Download Tomcat from the link listed below, install it and start having 
fun learning Java web programming for the iSeries. 

Apache Tomcat iSeries Installer V5.5.15
http://www.rjssoftware.com/files/apache/iseriestomcat5515.exe 

Apache Tomcat Installation Instructions 
http://www.rjssoftware.com/files/apache/iseriestomcat.pdf 

Any feedback on our installer to make it easier to use would be 
appreciated. 

Regards, 
Richard Schoen 
RJS Software Systems Inc. 
"Providing Your....iNFORMATION NOW!" 
Email: richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Web Site: http://www.rjssoftware.com 
Tel: (952) 898-3038 
Fax: (952) 898-1781 
Toll Free: (888) RJSSOFT 


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