Third-Party Listener Support
Oracle Application Server can also use two other web servers (listeners) besides Apache:
Java System Web Server (formerly Sun ONE Web Server)
Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS)
Oracle Application Server provides a proxy plug-in that allows you to transparently forward requests from these two servers to the Oracle HTTP Server. In this setup, the Oracle HTTP Server acts as a reverse HTTP proxy server; it receives and forwards a request to the appropriate content engine, but then points a redirect to the third-party listener. The Oracle HTTP Server as a proxy server mimics the host address and port of these listeners so that the proxy is completely transparent to any applications using the third-party listener.
Oracle Application Server also provides a lightweight single sign-on plug-in for these two servers. The plug-in is a partial implementation of the OracleAS Single Sign-On module. It allows these servers to seamlessly integrate with OracleAS Single Sign-On on the application server.
Get Oracle Application Server 10g Essentials now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
