Can Tomcat 4.0 be used with webMathematica 1.0?

Tomcat 4.0 can be used as a servlet container for webMathematica 1.0. To do so, it is necessary to update your web.xml file, and obtain a new version of J/Link.

We have provided updated web.xml files for both the Windows and Linux/Solaris platforms that work with Tomcat 4.0.

web.xml.nt

web.xml.unix

Once you have downloaded the appropriate web.xml file, remove the .nt or .unix extension and place it in the corresponding Tomcat folder.

C:\Program Files\Apache Tomcat 4.0\webapps\webMathematica\WEB-INF

/usr/local/tomcat/webapps/webMathematica/WEB-INF

If you do not update your version of J/Link then Java Object References will not work correctly. For more advanced webMathematica websites, these are an important and powerful extension mechanism. Basic webMathematica sites for calculating and plotting will work correctly with the version of J/Link that ships with webMathematica.

You can download J/Link 2.0 beta from http://www.wolfram.com/solutions/mathlink/jlink/.

This can be unpacked and then installed into the appropriate Mathematica application.

C:\Program Files\Wolfram Research\Mathematica\4.1\AddOns\Applications

/usr/local/mathematica/AddOns/Applications

In order to make the J/Link classes available to Tomcat you need to copy the JLink.jar file and the SystemFiles directory into the webMathematica layout.

C:\Program Files\Apache Tomcat 4.0\webapps\webMathematica\WEB-INF\lib

/usr/local/tomcat/webapps/webMathematica/WEB-INF/lib

This is a sufficient installation for J/Link. After this webMathematica should be able to run correctly with Tomcat 4.0.

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