RE: Single class for different actions, SOAP enabling Struts and Best Envinronment in NT/IIS

[Colin Sampaleanu <co...@Bspark.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: joaquim [mailto:joaquim@dei.uc.pt]
> Sent: September 19, 2000 2:44 PM
> To: struts-dev@jakarta.apache.org
> Subject: Single class for different actions, SOAP enabling Struts and
> Best Envinronment in NT/IIS
> 
> What would be the best solution to ship a Struts application for NT?.
> 
> I have been prototyping an application for libraries using 
> Struts, am very
> happy about it,  but it should run on NT because our target 
> libraries will
> have typically a NT server running some pages with IIS.
> 
> We could install Tomcat but my impression is that the 
> integration with IIS
> is still a bit complicated, and sys administrators can get 
> nervous at the
> idea of changing registry settings and all that.
> 
> In our team some people are inclined to asp based solutions 
> and the extra
> noise from the servlet environment does not eases things.
> 
> So what I am looking for is a not too costly, or free 
> solution for reliable
> Struts environment on NT/IIS with easy instalation and easy 
> maintenance
> (running as a service).
> 
> I am considering now:
> 1-enhydra from luris.com (the standard edition),
> 2 - Resin, 
> 3 - Some future Tomcat incarnation if there is something like 
> what I need in
> the pipeline (I have used 3.1 but not the nighly ones which 
> probably have
> improved IIS integration).

We have used both TomCat and Resin in front of WebLogic, without issues
(along with a few other servers). We are finally going to deploy with Resin
because for the time being it is quite a bit faster than TomCat, and while
not free for commercial use, is relatively cheap. We have not had any issues
so far with IIS integration...