Integration with other php and other apache driven apps.

[Alan Chandler <al...@chandlerfamily.org.uk>]

I am trying to plan how I might manage my complete web site(s) as I further 
integrate tapestry into what I am doing.   I am using tomcat (4.1) as the 
servlet container, apache2 as the static content provider (the two are linked 
via jk_mod).

One area that I don't yet know how to address is integration of other 
applications that are totally served by apache.  That is mainly mailman and 
gallery.

One idea is to manage the border and navigation via tapestry and render an 
<iframe> to cause the browser to load the other application directly in the 
content area.  The downside of this is complex url management to ensure 
apache can still source the correct stuff, even though the root context is 
likely to be tomcat/tapestry - and lack of information back to the navigation 
class in tapestry about exactly where in the subframe the user has navigated 
himself to.

On possible alternative is to set up the other applications to be serviced by 
apache on another (firewalled off) port on localhost, and serve all external 
requests directly by tomcat/tapestry. In this case, I could ensure 3rd party 
content is rendered by tapestry by reading the response from an external url 
passing it directly through.  I would need a component that did that.

Anyone done anything similar who could help? or point me in the right 
direction?
-- 
Alan Chandler
http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk

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Re: Integration with other php and other apache driven apps.

[Mark Wilcox <ma...@gmail.com>]

Hi Alan,
It sounds like you need to be looking more at a portal application
server instead of just trying to figure out how to cobble a tapestry
application together.

Portals are all about integrating disparate content together and with
JSR-168 support in Tapestry-4, it's simple to build portal
applications w/ Tapestry.

I know that seems a bit heavy-handed - but based on your description
that is what I would recommend to do because for short-term pain of
setting up a portal - you will get longer term benefits in terms of
flexibility and maintainence.

I would lean towards LifeRay or uPortal as my portal servers but
there's several to choose from out there.

Mark

On 8/19/05, Alan Chandler <al...@chandlerfamily.org.uk> wrote:
> I am trying to plan how I might manage my complete web site(s) as I further
> integrate tapestry into what I am doing.   I am using tomcat (4.1) as the
> servlet container, apache2 as the static content provider (the two are linked
> via jk_mod).
> 
> One area that I don't yet know how to address is integration of other
> applications that are totally served by apache.  That is mainly mailman and
> gallery.
> 
> One idea is to manage the border and navigation via tapestry and render an
> <iframe> to cause the browser to load the other application directly in the
> content area.  The downside of this is complex url management to ensure
> apache can still source the correct stuff, even though the root context is
> likely to be tomcat/tapestry - and lack of information back to the navigation
> class in tapestry about exactly where in the subframe the user has navigated
> himself to.
> 
> On possible alternative is to set up the other applications to be serviced by
> apache on another (firewalled off) port on localhost, and serve all external
> requests directly by tomcat/tapestry. In this case, I could ensure 3rd party
> content is rendered by tapestry by reading the response from an external url
> passing it directly through.  I would need a component that did that.
> 
> Anyone done anything similar who could help? or point me in the right
> direction?
> --
> Alan Chandler
> http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk
> 
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