RE: RE: [WDSCI-L] Re: Re: EAR/WAR Deployment

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Paul Nicolay
>
> Hi,
>
> Apart from all these rules and restrictions where to install and
> put certain things, the problem only gets worse when you have an
> existing application writter in CGI technology.
>
> If you're modernizing such a web application step by step, you
> can NOT keep the same directory structure (which is a nightmare
> owning a website that has a massive number of very valuable
> external links to it).
>
> I tried various things with rewriterules in Apache, but I just
> can't get it to work (IBM remains silent on this as well).  In
> all these issue, what I can miss is that a application is forcing
> me a naming convention.

Paul, I agree 100%, which is why I've spent a ton of time working with
symbolic links.  By using symbolic links, I've managed to get Tomcat to use
my old directory structure (I added four links, and everything worked
great), and I am working on a technique to do the same with WAS5X.  I'll be
doing a session at iSeries DevCon in Las Vegas on this topic, and touching
on it in my August Weaving Websphere column at MCPressOnline as well.

Joe