6 Replies Latest reply on Jan 5, 2005 6:10 AM by lucaregini

    Split Tomcat from JBoss

    black_fire

      Dear Java guys....

      I'm on a project that uses JBoss as EJB container, but I'm having a little problem with my development time, becouse always when I make a modification in the project I need generating another EAR file and it spend a lot of time.
      So, there is my question, can I split the tomcat container from Jboss and make the EJB calls from Tomcat?

      It would be more less like this:

      ----------- -----------
      | | | |
      | | | |
      | TOMCAT |----->| JBOSS |
      | 5 | | 3 |
      | |<-----| |
      | | | |
      ----------- -----------


      Any help is welcome.

      Best regards to all
      Rodrigo G. Tavares de Souza
      São Paulo - Brasil

        • 1. Re: Split Tomcat from JBoss

          You can, but then your application will be slow.

          • 2. Re: Split Tomcat from JBoss
            black_fire

            Thanks Juha... :)
            Where can I find some information to how make Tomcat connection with JBoss?
            Application may be slow, but I think I'm losing much more time waiting EAR deployment for each change in a simple jsp file for instance.

            Thanks and a Happy new year to all
            Rodrigo G. Tavares de Souza
            São Paulo - Brasil

            • 3. Re: Split Tomcat from JBoss
              lucaregini

              I have the same need. Where can i find information about separating JBOSS and tomcat?? Is there anything on the commercial documentation???


              Greets
              Luca

              • 4. Re: Split Tomcat from JBoss
                luc.texier

                Tomcat in JBoss supports JSP compilation.
                Create an exploded EAR which contains an exploded WAR that contains your JSPs. Make changes to them, refresh the page in your browser, voila!

                http://jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=ExplodedDeployment

                • 5. Re: Split Tomcat from JBoss
                  lucaregini

                  Thanks for the reply but this doesn't answer my previous question.
                  What i need is to separate the installation of tomcat from that of jboss.
                  I work for a bank where there are very strict ITC policies ( and where CPU cost is not a matter). We are evaluating the transition from websphere to JBOSS. One of the requisite is that TOMCAT should always be installed as its own package and there should not be replication of tomcat instances. So what i really want to do is to unbundle tomcat from JBOSS and have it as a pure ejb container.
                  I have and old copy of the commercial documentation which i don't find very helpful. I am wondering where may i find information about unbundling tomcat from jboss.

                  Greets
                  Luca

                  • 6. Re: Split Tomcat from JBoss
                    lucaregini

                    Something like setting the CatalinaHome property would probably suffice.
                    I have the commercial documentation for version 3.0.4. However we are using version 3.6 and this variable is not found in any *.xml file in the whole JBOSS directory tree. What should i configure???

                    Luca