How to: configure IIS 6.0 (w2k3) to fwd HTTP requests to SJSAS (PE) 9.0
Hi all,
My question is this; can Microsoft IIS be configured to redirect/fwd HTTP requests Sun Java System Application Server PE 9.0?
I'm looking to switch over to SJSAS (PE) 9.0 from a mainly Apache Tomcat based setup. Within the current setup i'm able to configure IIS (6.0) to redirect (passthrough) HTTP requests (via port 80), to a Tomcat instance running via another port (9090) to avoid server conflict. Within Tomcat this is achieved by using an ISAPI redirect filter (e.g. JK2, isapi_redirect.dll).
Having read through the available docs (for 9.0) and performed the usual trawl of forums and web in general i found a number of references to the configuration of Microsoft IIS to forward HTTP requests to SJAS 9.0 for the purposes of setting up load balancing and clustering. Everything i've seen so far points to the use of an ISAPI filter (sun-passthrough.dll) however whilst this appears to come bundled with earlier (pre 9.0) versions of SJSAS i could find no trace of it in the SJSAS (PE) 9.0 install dirs.
I then stumbled across this (http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=31701#156874) reasonably old TheServerSide.com forum post that seems to say in fairly certain terms that the sun-passthrough.dll (referred to in the post as the 'Load Balancer Plugin') only comes bundled as part of SJSAS 9.0 Standard and Enterprise Editions.Is this still the case?
Is there any way of setting this sort of thing up (IIS -> SJSAS (PE) 9.0 redirect) without having to either install Sun Java Web Server or find some clunky hack/workaround for IIS?.
NOTE: Switching off, changing port # or uninstallation of IIS are not currently options, as we have a number of ASP.NET 2.0 based development sites/services running on the box as well.
Hope the questions clear enough and that someone can help.
Many thanks,
Simon Abele
