Re: deploying portlets in a different server

Elliot Metsger wrote:
> Nathaniel A. Johnson wrote:
>> Is there a way to deploy portlets, bundled in WARs, into another tomcat
>> server (that does not contain a portlet container) so load can be
>> distributed a bit?  
> 
> If it were me I would set up a cluster of Apache HTTP servers and put a 
> load balancer in front of them.  The http servers could be configured 
> with mod_jk to loadbalance to backend Tomcat servers.

That's exactly how we cluster our portal right now.  The problem is that 
around here we have a lot of other applications that are not a part of 
the portal, and can not be deployed inside of the portal for various 
reason, but would like to present themselves inside the portal.  We 
currently use iframes for these applications, and would like to provide 
better integration.  This is why I was asking if you could deploy 
portlets in different application servers.  Maybe WSRP is our best 
option outside of the iframe world.

> 
>> Maybe the only answer is WSRP, but I figured this is
>> the place to ask.
> 
> The Apache WSRP producer implementation actually uses Pluto under the 
> hood, IIRC.

Good to know.  Thanks.

Nate
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