Running Java applications with CF applications

[isleta13]

Is anyone out there running both Java and CF apps on their CFMX 7 J2EE
Enterprise Server? I was going to migrate the Java apps to CF7 to avoid a
seperate Tomcat installation. Is that a good idea? What risks would be
involved?

Thanks!

[AWhitford]

For what it is worth, I am running CFMX Enterprise with the included JRun 4.
This gives me access to both cfm and jsp in one webapp scope. The really ugly
part is that we need to hack CF's WEB-INF/web.xml to do things like add
security contexts, taglibs, etc. There has to be a cleaner approach, but this
does work.

Personally, I'm rethinking this architecture largely because I feel that JRun4
is stuck in the stone ages a bit. I want to be able to use the latest Java
APIs (JSP 2.0, EJB 3.0, JDBC 3.0, J2EE 1.4, etc.). I've managed to get JRun4
and CFMX 7.0.1 running on JDK 1.5, but Update 4 -- not JDK 1.5 Update 6 because
JRun doesn't work. I guess I need JRun 4 Updater 7, or JRun 5. ;-)

I'm thinking about running two application servers: JRun4 for CFMX 7, and
Tomcat for JSP/JSF. Then use some web server tricks to redirect pages to the
appropriate places. I really wish I didn't need to resort to this as it seems
like an administration nightmare. But the alternative is to rewrite my CFM
into JSP...

[ke4pym]

We've been running a Java based application in JRun at the same time we're
running two clustered instances of CFMX7 for a couple of years now and it's
been great. Moving the application from an old server to a new shiney server
was pretty simple as well.