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Servlet Alternatives - JServ, Tomcat - Sun Install

These JSP-related products are NOT in the final product; the information below has been saved "just in case."

JServ: JServ was unpacked into /usr/local/ApacheJServ-1.1.2 and the matching JSDK 2.0 was unpacked into /usr/local/JSDK2.0 -- here's how to configure JServ to run with our Apache:

	./configure --prefix=/opt/jserv \
	--with-apache-src=/opt/src/apache_1.3.12 \
	--with-java-platform=2 \
	--with-jdk-home=/opt/java \
	--with-JSDK=/usr/local/JSDK2.0/lib \
	--disable-debugging

Running the above configure command will return these instructions:

+-STEP 1-------------------------------------------------------+
|Run 'make; make install' to make a .jar file, compile the C   |
|code and copy the appropriate files to the appropriate        |
|locations.                                                    |
+--------------------------------------------------------------+

+-STEP 2-------------------------------------------------------+
|Then cd /opt/src/apache_1.3.12 and run 'make; make install'.  |
+--------------------------------------------------------------+

+-STEP 3-------------------------------------------------------+
|Put this line somewhere in Apache's httpd.conf file:          |
|Include /opt/jserv/etc/jserv.conf                             |
|                                                              |
|Then start Apache and try visiting the URL:                   |
|http://whorfin:1080/servlets/Hello                            |
+--------------------------------------------------------------+

The .java servlets exist under /opt/jserv/servlets -- you can change this in /opt/jserv/etc/jserv.conf

You have to clean up the classpath if the Tomcat JSDK exists (as it does on whorfin). Only JSDK 2.0 will work with this version of JServ. If you get a bunch of messages about a JServ class that must be made abstract, the problem is caused by a bad JSDK in your classpath.

Tomcat: AKA jakarta-tomcat. Source code is available through a separate project page under jakarta.apache.org. It's a bit more up-to-date than JServ but otherwise quite similar in function.

Making it work was a bit messy; you need to start it manually and include the below in Apache's httpd.conf:

##########
# TOMCAT stuff - it's compiled in, not a module:
#LoadModule jserv_module libexec/mod_jserv.so

 ApJServManual on
 ApJServProperties "/usr/local/tomcat/conf/tomcat.properties"
 ApJServDefaultProtocol ajpv12
 ApJServSecretKey DISABLED
 ApJServMountCopy on
 ApJServLogLevel debug
 ApJServDefaultPort 8007
 AddType text/jsp .jsp
 AddHandler jserv-servlet .jsp
 ApJServMount /servlet /ROOT

See the files in sabre's /usr/local/tomcat/conf directory if you need to turn Tomcat back on for any reason.

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