Using IIS and Tomcat without integration.

[Richard Elsberry <ri...@elsberry.net>]

Hello all,

A general integration question. I've got an asp application that I am 
attempting to merge with a jsp application and have not had any luck 
integrating the two. (two full days perusing the tomcat archives)

This got me to thinking. Is it really necessary that they be integrated. 
The two apps can run independent of one another so why can't I just 
create a link from within the asp program (where users login) to the 
tomcat application?

Are there sercurity or session issues that I'm not anticipating? There 
won't be a lot of traffic to the site but data security is essential.

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks, Richard



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Re: Using IIS and Tomcat without integration.

[Mark Eggers <it...@yahoo.com>]

Hmmm,

I suppose you could create a sessionid or cookie with
the asp code and pass that to tomcat.  You would then
have your tomcat instance listening on port 8443 (or
change it to 443 if you're not running something there
already) and do the link.

Getting Tomcat integrated with IIS is not terribly
complicated, but I have found it to be not as easily
accomplished as the Tomcat/Apache integration (go
figure).

To start, you'll need the to get the connector
isapi_redirect.dll from Tomcat 3.3 or later in order
to get this working.  You can find the
isapi_redirect.dll at the following location.


http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-tomcat/release/v3.3.1/bin/win32/i386/

Then, you'll get to follow:

http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-3.3-doc/tomcat-iis-howto.html

Unfortunately, Tomcat 4.0.x does not have the
automatic registry settings generation that Tomcat 3.3
has.  You'll have to generate them by hand. 
Fortunately the documentation lists the entries
necessary for the registry, along with examples and
default settings (where appropriate).

Basically, where the Tomcat 3.3.x documentation tells
you to generate the files using jkconf parameter to
start Tomcat, you'll get to do those by hand.

It's not pretty, but it works.  I'm currently running
Tomcat 4.04, Cocoon 2.1-dev, and Jetspeed through IIS
on a Windows/2000 Professional machine with
jdk1.3.1_04.

If you need specific help covering a part of the
documentation or installation, I'll do my best via
email.

/mde/

just my two cents . . . .

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