Hi Alan, It sounds like you need to be looking more at a portal application server instead of just trying to figure out how to cobble a tapestry application together.
Portals are all about integrating disparate content together and with JSR-168 support in Tapestry-4, it's simple to build portal applications w/ Tapestry. I know that seems a bit heavy-handed - but based on your description that is what I would recommend to do because for short-term pain of setting up a portal - you will get longer term benefits in terms of flexibility and maintainence. I would lean towards LifeRay or uPortal as my portal servers but there's several to choose from out there. Mark On 8/19/05, Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to plan how I might manage my complete web site(s) as I further > integrate tapestry into what I am doing. I am using tomcat (4.1) as the > servlet container, apache2 as the static content provider (the two are linked > via jk_mod). > > One area that I don't yet know how to address is integration of other > applications that are totally served by apache. That is mainly mailman and > gallery. > > One idea is to manage the border and navigation via tapestry and render an > <iframe> to cause the browser to load the other application directly in the > content area. The downside of this is complex url management to ensure > apache can still source the correct stuff, even though the root context is > likely to be tomcat/tapestry - and lack of information back to the navigation > class in tapestry about exactly where in the subframe the user has navigated > himself to. > > On possible alternative is to set up the other applications to be serviced by > apache on another (firewalled off) port on localhost, and serve all external > requests directly by tomcat/tapestry. In this case, I could ensure 3rd party > content is rendered by tapestry by reading the response from an external url > passing it directly through. I would need a component that did that. > > Anyone done anything similar who could help? or point me in the right > direction? > -- > Alan Chandler > http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
