Re: WebSphere 5.0 Express Questions

[Simon Coulter <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 14/02/2006, at 6:38 AM, Mike Wills wrote:

> I want to go to one WAS instance and and one apache instance on the 
> iSeries
> for live and test. The vendor recommends one set for live and one set 
> for
> test. If I could even go to two WAS instances and one apache, that 
> would
> work as well. Is this possible, or is it best to keep them seperate?

What's best depends on how your software operates but it is certainly 
possible to run multiple WAS instances under a single web server 
instance.

In the (horrible) Web Admin interface you can associate a WAS instance 
with an existing web server instance. You can also start and stop those 
WAS instances independently.

I'm also sure you could configure multiple copies of your application 
within a single WAS instance as long as they have different definitions 
but it's been a very long time since I tried this. Whether they would 
run without collision would depend on how the application was written. 
If you vendor recommends separate WAS instances then I would follow 
that recommendation but as I said above you can associate both 'live' 
and 'test' WAS instances with a single web server instance.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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