Because I want to use both Sun’s application server (based on Tomcat as far as I know), but also IIS (for serving .NET pages), I was googling for a way to have them interact. The results:
Configuring Tomcat with IIS Web Server
Configuring Tomcat and Apache with JK/1.2
Apache Jakarta Tomcat Connector
I’m not sure if this information still applies, but at least I now know it’s possible.
When I started blogging, I asked you readers if I should continue in Dutch, or in English. A lot of my visitors are international, so I switched to English. I think that all blogs having to do with anything other than regional news should be in English. It annoyes me to see people babbling about something like VS.NET in their own (non-English) language. Hey, it’s about a global product, so talk to me in English.
Another thing is so-called intelligent software, that detects where I’m from while browsing the net. The result is that I’m viewing someones blog (or other pages) and some keywords like “comments”, “login”, “today”, “recently” are translated into Dutch (because I am, and I live in the Netherlands). That’s weird. And it does NOT contribute to my browsing experience. It looks clumsy. It’s like saying “you can understand my English posts, but let me translate the trivial text for you”. Duh! If I was too stupid to understand the trivial parts, the rest would be jibberish to me as well.
If you need a free IDE to program Java, have a look at jGRASP. It supports UML-modelling, and Java 1.5 syntax (and other languages), source folding (as seen in the new Borland products and Visual Studio), auto documentation (via javadoc), and some other neat features. This is definitely something to check out if you don’t need a visual designer.
Or you could go with Netbeans, but unfortunately this free IDE has a visual designer 😉
Some time ago, I blogged about Cloudscape. I also said I would try to do something with it via JBuilder2005. Well, I haven’t done anything with Cloudscape yet, but I installed JBuilder2005 and…on the server I installed the Sun Application Server Platform 8.1-2005Q1. Cool stuff. I’ll try to have Sun ASP running together with IIS, both serving their own pages. I don’t know if it can be done, but I’ll give it a try.
Reading about the whole framework seems to be reading about .NET, with this change that everything is there. No ifs, buts, missing parts or whatever. Platform independent, scalable and mature.
Perhaps I will even start to like Java. Jikes. Let’s rinse the mouth, now shall we?!