Java Module (fwd)

[Brian Behlendorf <br...@hyperreal.com>]

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Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 07:49:47 -0700
From: John Carnahan <ca...@biology.ucla.edu>
To: apache@apache.org
Subject: Java Module

I'd like to announce a new, and of course free, module for Apache
webservers for running Java server-side applications (CGI). The module
allows developers who are used to writing CGI in languages like Perl and
C to write in Java and call them directly. Previously you could run Java
CGIs but not without cumbersome wrapper scripts to handle the java
interpreter and classpath. This module gives developers the freedom to
create CGI apps in Java without any special APIs, wrappers or daemons.
Just recompile your webserver with the module, configure it with it your
favorite Java VM (jdk, jit etc) and classpath and restart. I tried to
keep as consistent with CGI as possible (the only diff between CGI in
C/PERL v. Java is that environmental vars are passed into Java apps as
System.properties). Everything else is the same. I am also working on
including servlet support in my module.

For more information go to:

   http://wright.biology.ucla.edu/java-module/

It's still a work-in-progress so there are still compatibility issues
and whatnot but with moderate fixes it should be work with any Apache
server. For now it works well with v1.2b10+.


John Carnahan
UCLA