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Hardware and Software Requirements
To enable your customers or suppliers to access PipeChain Supply via a web browser, you need to install a web server. Basically you can use any web server available. In this document we will go through the installation and configuration of Tomcat 6.0.20, a freeware servlet container and web server.
You will also need to have Java Development Kit (JDK) 1.6.0_16, in order to be able to start the web server. JDK is a freeware as well.
Both these softwares con be obtained from PipeChain.
Hardware Requirements
100 MB of disk space is needed. It is possible to install the Tomcat components on the same machine as the PipeChain application, but this means the whole machine will be exposed to calls from the Internet. Depending on the applicable security policy, a separate machine should be used for the Web server installation. This machine should normally be placed in the DMZ.
Software Requirements
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JDK 1.6.0_16 needs to be installed
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Application servers such as Tomcat and HTTP server need to be installed on a suitable machine
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This document describes the installation of Tomcat 6.2. The product is described by Apache’s own documentation (see http://jakarta.apache.org) as follows:
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Tomcat is the servlet container that is used in the official Reference Implementation for java.sun.com products. It is a container for servlet in the same way the Enterprise Java Beans run inside of an EJB container.
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Tomcat works together with other web servers such as Apache, IIS and Netscape.
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Tomcat also includes a small HTTP server front end that can be used instead of Apache and other HTTP servers.
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Tomcat is 100% Java, and therefore will run on any machine with a certified JDK implementation. It is tested on the following systems: Solaris SPARC, Solaris Intel, Windows NT, Linux, MacOS X Server.