Heinz Wehner wrote:

> Is there any reason why one should keep my JSWDK 1.0.1 installation?

Yes. As of today, the integration between the two is awful. Very hard to
figure out, and I haven't been able to get tomcat to do what I need...
Specifically, we want our existing web site to handle JSP pages. With tomcat
installed, it seems that the only way to do this is move the entire web site
to the tomcat server--i.e.: you can have JSP, but only if tomcat is the server
for the entire web site. You can't, as far as I have been able to determine,
simply have tomcat execute JSPs within an existing Apache web site.

Also, we want to execute servlets within the Apache web site. We have a mix of
html, phtml and JSP code, and now we are adding servlets. Again, the servlets
seem to require the entire tomcat server setup--which means, we might as well
turn off Apache. This is not acceptable for us...

Now, I suspect that there is a way to make this work, but I've just spent an
entire long weekend (three days) trying to make tomcat execute a JSP within
our Apache site, and haven't been able to do it. All I can do is set up
separate web sites (within the tomcat web server directories) and execute them
there...

Bottom line is that tomcat still runs as a completely separate server. When
Apache sees a URL that says "something to do with Java" it hands that URL off
to tomcat... and tomcat proceeds to search its internal web configuration for
the relevant pages. Hopefully this will be fixed--judging by what I've seen on
the Jakarta site, the long-term plan is to merge the functionality of these
two products. But for now, think of them as separate products that hand things
back and forth, which (at least for our purposes) often isn't going to get you
where you need to be...

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though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who
neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that
knows neither victory nor defeat. -- Theodore Roosevelt


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