If your machine 2 is not accessable (as you said), how can a servlet
or whatever access it?
Anyway, assuming your Machine 2 is inside a firewall, you have to open
a port so that the outside can access it. Since you are using http, you need
simply open one port.
-Samuel
"Garg, Anshu (CAP, RAIL)" wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Firstly, let me brief you about our architecture before detailing
> the problem we are facing.
>
> We have the Web Server (NES) installed on one machine (machine - 1).
> This machine is owned by the Internet Service
> Provider. The Application Server (servlet engine) has been installed on
> another machine (maand it is located in our premises.
> This machine also hosts the application (servlets and business logic).
>
> The end user will be accessing the application through the web
> server. He will not have direct access to machine -2.
>
> Suppose our home page is on machine -1. Whenever the user connects
> to the web server, he goes to the home page. In
> the home page, we specified the URL of the servlet (in the action tag),
> which is running on machine -2. We could not transfer
> control from the home page to the servlet running on machine -2, since the
> user cannot connect to machine -2.
>
> My question is :
>
> "Is it possible that we have a servlet running on machine - 1 and
> somehow this servlet invokes our servlet running on
> machine -2?"
>
> We tried using RequestDispatcher interface but it can forward the
> requests to servlets running on the same machine.
>
> Regards
> Anshu.
>
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