"IBM's WebSphere is not a fully Java Servlet 2.2 compliant container."
With the fixpack though, WebSphere 3.5 is brought up to date on servlets 2.2
and JSP 1.1.
-----Original Message-----
From: Lefty Burgess [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 8:57 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Struts ok with WebSphere AppServer?
Alix Jermyn writes:
>
> For our next project we would like to use struts, and our client is
likely
> to be committed to using WebSphere for an App Server.
>
> Has anyone out there used WebSphere with struts before - any problems we
> should be aware of before committing ourselves?
>
> PS Craig imminent is imminent for the Struts 1.0 milestone release? (1
> week, 1 month?)
>
> ta
> Alix
Unfortunately, I cannot answer your question *yet*. I am in the same
situation, however, in that I am developing an application with Struts
on Apache/Tomcat but need to deploy to IIS/WebSphere.
It *should* be possible, with some extra work of course, because
IBM's WebSphere is not a fully Java Servlet 2.2 compliant container.
Big surprise there. The extra work involves running a particular
version of WebSphere and using utilities to convert a war file into
something WebSphere can understand. I have not actually gotten this
far yet, but it *seems* relatively straightforward.
Here are some links substantiating what I am trying to relate:
http://www-4.ibm.com/software/webservers/appserv/doc/v35/ae/infocenter/was/0
008.html
http://www-4.ibm.com/software/webservers/appserv/doc/v35/ae/infocenter/was/0
00801.html
http://www-4.ibm.com/software/webservers/appserv/doc/v35/ae/infocenter/was/0
00802.html
To quote from the last link:
"IBM WebSphere Application Server Version 3.5 Fix Pack 2 (also known
as Version 3.5.2) introduces support for WAR files. However, Fix Pack
2 has been designed to maintain compatibility with existing
applications. As such, WAR files are only used as a deployment vehicle
in Version 3.5.2. After a WAR file is installed into the server
runtime, the WAR file itself is no longer used."
If you try all this before I do and it works or doesn't, please let
the rest of us know. Thanks!
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