Apache Tomcat 7 Essentials

IIS integration with Tomcat 7

IIS versions vary with different versions of Windows OS, such as Windows 2003 comes with IIS 6 and Windows 2008 comes with IIS 7. Here, we discuss the integration of IIS 7 with Tomcat 7, but before we proceed, there are some sets of configuration which we need to configure to make sure the integration works well.

Prerequisites

The prerequisites for integration are:

• .NET 3.5 should be installed on the server
• The new site with a common virtual directory for IIS and Tomcat. We need to create a website, which accepts the request from the user and redirects it to Tomcat 7 internally. In order to integrate IIS with Tomcat, we have to create a common virtual directory for IIS and Tomcat, and then share the module.
• isapi_redirect.dll: ...