TomCat was RE: Did anyone attend the Webfacing lab at COMMON?

["David Morris" <David.Morris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tim,

Thanks for changing the subject line.

On your system, first get to the 1.3 JDK and make sure you have the
latest Java group PTF. You don't have to do this but it cuts down on
the number of errors you might encounter. Here is IBM's link:

http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/ebusiness/java/java2.htm

In the meantime, set up Tomcat on your PC. It is pretty easy to set up.
I would go with Tomcat 4.0. First, download Tomcat from jakarta.apache.org.
Follow the installation instructions, which basically say get a recent JDK from 
www.javasoft.com and set a CATALINA_HOME and JAVA_HOME
environment variable.

Once you have it running in that environment, copy it to a net server shared
drive. You can also use FTP, but drag and drop is easier. When you get
this done, send an email to me and I will forward a shell script that sets
up your classpath and starts Tomcat. In the future, I would like to get this
script included in the Tomcat distribution.

When Tomcat is running, try opening the default page at http://yourserver:8080/.
I probably left out a step, but that should get you started.

David Morris


>>> thatzenbeler@clinitech.net 11/05/01 03:15PM >>>
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I was wondering, what would I need to do, to setup a tomcat test on my
testbox?

Right now, I'm using the standard ibm http server... And were @ release r4m5

This topic might be better in web400 or java... but I would like to get my
feet wet doing some servlets...  Because I don't understand any of it....
yet!

thanks, tim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Morris [SMTP:David.Morris@plumcreek.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 1:52 PM
> To:   midrange-l@midrange.com
> Subject:      RE: Did anyone attend the Webfacing lab at COMMON?
>
> Scott,
>
> I have been using Tomcat for a while now and it seems to scale just
> fine. The latest release (Tomcat 4.0) adds some support that should
> allow failover and multi-system processing. IBM is not supporting
> Tomcat 4.0 on the iSeries (yet?) but so far it runs fine on my system.
> Does anyone know where I could find information that describes when
> and why Tomcat won't scale?
>
> All Servlets have to support sessions because that is part of the
> servlet specification. Tomcat supports the latest Servlet spec,
> which WAS does not. You may be thinking of session serialization,
> which was added with Tomcat 4.0.
>
>
> David Morris
>
> >>> Smildenber@Washcorp.com 11/05/01 01:43PM >>>
> Nathan,
>
> I can't find the Tomcat announcement right now but I was under the
> impression that it would support Webfacing.  Maybe someone has that link
> and
> can verify or maybe I will find it.  My understanding was that Tomcat
> would
> support Webfacing but wouldn't scale as well as WAS, of course I sometimes
> remember wrong :)
>
> Scott Mildenberger
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Nathan M. Andelin [mailto:nandelin@relational-data.com]
> > Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 1:30 PM
> > To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> > Subject: Re: Did anyone attend the Webfacing lab at COMMON?
> >
> >
> >
> > > One glimmer of hope could be Jakarta Tomcat which
> > > is lighter-weight than WAS.
> >
> > Maybe time will tell.  I didn't think Tomcat would support
> > Webfacing.  Does
> > Tomcat support the concept of "sessions"?