Can we run JSP on Windows Server? 1

[Ovatvvon]

I know I can run ASP pages on our Win2k server. I would like to run jsp pages as well but don't want to purchase additional servers running unix or linux to run the jsp pages.

Is it possible to run jsp pages on IIS or on Windows 2000 with additional software added (much like you add chilisoft to apache to run .asp pages on it)?

Thanks in advance. -Ovatvvon :-Q

 

[iSeriesCodePoet]

You can use Tomcat. Mike Wills
AS400 Programmer

 

[Ovatvvon]

Is it simply a matter of installing it and it'll run, or are there a bunch of configurations we'll have to make to let IIS and tomcat run together?

Where can I find stats and pricing for the product? -Ovatvvon :-Q

 

[iSeriesCodePoet]

Tomcat is a open source server that is made by the apache group, so your cost is nill. There is a plug-in for IIS so they work together, search google for that. Mike Wills
AS400 Programmer

 

[iSeriesCodePoet]

Well... actually I suppose I should ask... how many hits are you talking about here? If it is many, you might get better performance out of a J2EE server. I think there is one called JBoss?? Otherwise, I know there is iPlanet, Websphere, etc. But the last two are not free. Mike Wills
AS400 Programmer

 

[Ovatvvon]

Thinking we'll be getting between 500-1000 hits per day. This is mostly just a temp. project anyway to learn jsp...we need to. ASP has been the primary focus for us and we need to expand more. So once we learn jsp a good deal then we can think about spending the money on a better program or maybe even go ahead an get a unix/linux system...although I'm not looking forward to that.
-Ovatvvon :-Q

 

[iSeriesCodePoet]

Tomcat is developed in Java, the platform doesn't matter, NT, UNIX, AS400, Linux, ect. It is the same set of binaries that you download of of their website (

http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/index.html).

4.0 is the latest stable version. I think Tomcat would be a good starting point, here each of us has tomcat running on our own workstations for testing, and then we have the production server. That set up works great for us.

Plus if you stay within the standards of JSP/servlet development, if you need to change your server to a better non-free server you shouldn't have to make any changes to your code. That is the best part about java! We can use the same code on Tomcat and Websphere and not have any problems. Mike Wills
AS400 Programmer

 

[Ovatvvon]

execellent. Thanks for all your help Mike. -Ovatvvon :-Q

 

[iSeriesCodePoet]

Oh, on this website there is an Apache and a Tomcat forum. The Apache forum fequently has Tomcat questions. I am sure in the IIS forum you could ask about integrating tomcat also. Mike Wills
AS400 Programmer

 

[Ovatvvon]

ok cool....as soon as I get it I'll probably be asking question. -Ovatvvon :-Q

 

[dendenners]

Sorry Koldark,
Hopefully you'll see this. I saw that you said you were using tomcat on your local machine and porting your code to the production machine. I've the same setup here but am only using a demo version of weblogic locally, which expires shortly! Do you mind if I ask you what server are you using in production and did you uncover any issues using tomcat as your dev server and a different server for production? Thanks very much.

 

[iSeriesCodePoet]

We use either Tomcat or Websphere depending on what we are doing with the servlet for production. As I think I stated before, by codeing to the set standards and not using the proprietory features of websphere we have not had a problem so far. Obiously you could create a test evironment in Websphere which we have, but our programmers have been using tomcat initially. Mike Wills
AS400 Programmer

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