[ale] PHP vs. J2EE

[John Wells]

Running Tomcat as it's own server is a snap.  Getting communication
between Apache and Tomcat is a bit more involved, but not too difficult,
and well explained at
http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.1-doc/jk2/index.html.

You can use it either way.  You can run Tomcat as the only web server, or
have  it and Apache running side by side and use URL's to make specific
calls to Tomcat (i.e. http://myserver:8080/myservlet) or use jk or jk2 to
allow the two to communicate behind the scenes.  Each option is fairly
easy.

Configuring tomcat for your custom servlets and jsp is a bit more complex
(lots of creating/editing xml config files) if you've never done it
before, but fortunately the Tomcat documentation is top-notch.

John


Christopher Fowler said:
> Its  all production and has to run on UNIX.  Not necessarily Linux.
> Compiling Apache + PHP and getting it working for FreeBSD 5.0 was a
> challenge enough.
>
> But I guess Tomcat would pose a similar task.
>



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