Tomcat and Passthru Servlet

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ok so maybe this is a stupid question but i’m pretty stuck.

Coulds anyone explain how i get the Passthru servlet example in the documentation to work with tomcat.

i have got tomcat to work with apache so this is no problem, i did have Jserv working fine but i need JSP also.

Using Tomcat 4.0.1

thx

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i did have Jserv working fine but i need JSP
> also.

what does this mean? do you still have JServ running fine? you can check with:
http://localhost/servlets/IsItWorking

you need JServ to be alive and kicking if you want to make the PT servlet run.

this should not impact with Tomcat running on your Apache server.

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I’m learning.

I assumed that the PT servlet would work with tomcat also. Not to worry i’ll get JServ working again.

Which is best

- The PT Servlet in JServ or
- Cocoon running in tomcat (i assume with cocoon i would have to right my own servlet which interacts with the DOM API to collect the xslt)


This all seems a bit crazy to me, so i have apache calling JServ for the xslt and tomcat to perform JSP via the Java DOM API?

Thx

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quote:
I'm learning.

So do I ;)

> - The PT Servlet in JServ
> - Cocoon running in tomcat

These are two pretty different solutions. I haven't used Cocoon for a year, but I remember that to dynamically collect data you will have to build a specific "provider" (their own term) in Java. Cocoon also provides caching and FOP support (for PDF rendering).

So if you need Cocoon features, in your position I would personaly forget the PTS, else it is to messy.

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Hi Steve,

I haven’t tried with Tomcat 4 but I have pass-thru running with Tomcat 3. In principle it works fine but please notice that pass-thru is only tested with Jserv.

To install pass-thru in Tomcat you can do the following:

  • add a new directory for instance %TOMCAT_HOME%\webapps\passthru
  • Create directory passthru\WEB-INF
  • Create directory passthru\WEB-INF\lib
  • Copy xt.jar, xp.jar, passthru.jar and sax.jar into the passthru\WEB-INF\lib directory
  • Create a file passthru\WEB-INF\web.xml

A basic web.xml for pass-thru can look like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE web-app
PUBLIC “-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.2//EN”
“http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/web-app_2_2.dtd”>


filter
com.softwareag.tamino.API.servlet.TaminoFilter



test
com.softwareag.tamino.API.servlet.TaminoTest


You have to restart Tomcat.

Pointing your browser to
http://localhost:8080/passthru/servlet/com.softwareag.tamino.API.servlet.TaminoTest should show the test page.

Best Regards
Christine