Running Coldfusion apps in WebSphere

[psydrake]

I am an administrator of a WebSphere 6 Network Deployment installation, and I
have a customer who would like to run her Coldfusion application in WebSphere.
After reading some online documentation, I see that this can be done (though
perhaps WAS 6 ND edition is not supported yet), but I am not clear on how this
works.

For example, the documentation:

[url]http://livedocs.macromedia.com/coldfusion/6.1/ibmdocs/install_.htm[/url]

instructs to do the following:
1. Install the ColdFusion files.
2. Deploy the ColdFusion J2EE application.
3. Configure ColdFusion in the Configuration and Migration Wizard.
4. Enable specific functionality required by ColdFusion applications, such
as the Verity search engine.

Is this a separate application server that must be installed and run on the
WebSphere machine, or is everything (e.g. the Coldfusion libraries) that is
needed included in the resulting J2EE .ear file that the developer hands to me?
Would I as a WebSphere administrator be performing all of this installation and
configuration, or are these all steps that the developer performs in the
process of packaging her J2EE .ear file?

Thanks for any help you can give on this admittedly basic question!

[Jochem van Dieten **AdobeCommunityExpert**]

psydrake wrote:

> I am an administrator of a WebSphere 6 Network Deployment installation, and I
> have a customer who would like to run her Coldfusion application in WebSphere.

> [url]http://livedocs.macromedia.com/coldfusion/6.1/ibmdocs/install_.htm[/url]
> instructs to do the following:
> 1. Install the ColdFusion files.
> 2. Deploy the ColdFusion J2EE application.
> 3. Configure ColdFusion in the Configuration and Migration Wizard.
> 4. Enable specific functionality required by ColdFusion applications, such
> as the Verity search engine.
>
> Is this a separate application server that must be installed and run on the
> WebSphere machine, or is everything (e.g. the Coldfusion libraries) that is
> needed included in the resulting J2EE .ear file that the developer hands to me?

All the standard Java bits are included in the EAR file. However,
ColdFusion comes with additional functionality such as Verity Indexing
and a JDBC-ODBC bridge that run as separate services (and may be
Windows-only). If your developer uses those, they need to be installed
as well and that is not part of a standard EAR file deployment. Your
developer should be able to tell you more about those.

> Would I as a WebSphere administrator be performing all of this installation and
> configuration, or are these all steps that the developer performs in the
> process of packaging her J2EE .ear file?

When we deliver an EAR file we perform most of these tasks when
packaging the EAR file so all that is left for the WebSphere admin is
step 2 "Deploy the ColdFusion J2EE application.". You need to consult
your developer to see how much he does and how much you need to do for him.

Jochem

--
Jochem van Dieten
Adobe Community Expert for ColdFusion

[psydrake]

Jochem,

Thanks very much for your reply. This is exactly what I wanted to know! So, I
guess I don't need to deploy the Macromedia ColdFusion MX application
(cfusion.ear), in addition to the developer-supplied .ear, if we don't need
Verity Indexing or the JDBC-ODBC bridge?

Have a great day!

[Jochem van Dieten **AdobeCommunityExpert**]

psydrake wrote:

>
> Thanks very much for your reply. This is exactly what I wanted to know! So, I
> guess I don't need to deploy the Macromedia ColdFusion MX application
> (cfusion.ear), in addition to the developer-supplied .ear, if we don't need
> Verity Indexing or the JDBC-ODBC bridge?

You shouldn't need to.

Jochem

--
Jochem van Dieten
Adobe Community Expert for ColdFusion

[coldfusion developer]

is coldfusion mx 7 supports websphere 6.0.1?
i have performed all the steps regarding deploying coldfusion mx on websphere
but still [url]http://localhost:9080/cfmx/cfide/administrator/index.cfm[/url] produce page
not found error.

[srisatishch]

Hi,

Could you please let me know what is this cfusion.ear file you are referring to. Is this different from the ear file that is developed by Developer to deploy on Websphere.

Thanks
Satish

Jochem,

Thanks very much for your reply. This is exactly what I wanted to know! So, I
guess I don't need to deploy the Macromedia ColdFusion MX application
(cfusion.ear), in addition to the developer-supplied .ear, if we don't need
Verity Indexing or the JDBC-ODBC bridge?

Have a great day!