Ok, here's how this works. IIS natively supports nothing other than serving static files and execute add-ons. This applies to all IIS versions.
Ability to use dynamic scripting frameworks like ASP, ASP.Net, PHP, JSP, Perl, etc are all add-ons as far as IIS is concerned. Windows Server 2003 bundles the ASP and ASP.Net add-ons configured by default. Of course, you can download and install any other add-ons to extend IIS functionality, including JSP using Tomcat or PHP. FYI: Just about all other web servers behave in exactly the same way as IIS in these regards. Except for the web servers written in Java because they can of course "natively" run JSP, which is basically Java. Servers not written in Java cannot run JSP without loading a JVM to do so, and that is what the add-ons basically give to those webservers. Thus, it would never make sense for IIS to ever "directly" support JSP because it implies a JVM dependency. -- //David IIS http://blogs.msdn.com/David.Wang This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. // "LarryB" <LarryB [at] discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:B35E22E2-5321-4FEB-B552-6CFABCB25B10 [at] microsoft.com... Thanks for your quick reply. One follow-up question, does IIS 6.0 directly support the use of .jsp or do I still need the 3rd-party add-on? -- Larry Bugh "Tom Kaminski [MVP]" wrote: > "LarryB" <LarryB [at] discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:DC07E7A7-DB52-432C-B993-537DB45E775B [at] microsoft.com... > > Does IIS 5.0 support the use of .jsp pages directly or do I need to use a > > separate server or extensions to IIS? Thanks in advance. > > You need a third party add-on. Tomcat is a popular one. > http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-3.3-doc/tomcat-iis-h owto.html > > -- > Tom Kaminski IIS MVP > http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/community/centers /iis/ > http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ > http://www.iistoolshed.com/ - tools, scripts, and utilities for running IIS > > Thank you ---------------------------------------- http://www.clickssl.com/ - RapidSSL http://www.clickssl.com/ Thawte SSL123 -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/JSF-files-with-IIS-tp27461187p27464870.html Sent from the Tomcat - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
