[ajug-members] Upgrading servlet platform question

[Sean Durity]

We have an early servlet application (servlet spec 1.2). It was written 
before our developers had any knowledge of web app frameworks. It is 
currently running on Windows NT 4.0, IIS 4.0, and JRun (Application 
server). Yes, that's pretty old. And not very secure. We restrict access 
to only local network users because of that. I want to move the 
application to Apache/Tomcat on Linux.

The application consists of just servlets (no JSPs), a few static html 
pages, JDBC jar files, and a .css style sheet. The servlets are compiled 
as stand-alone class files. They aren't in a war file. We tried putting 
them onto an Apache/Tomcat 4.1.31 server. However, I don't think we are 
getting the web.xml done correctly. Can we move the source code into a 
project in something like NetBeans or Eclipse and let it build a proper 
war file and/or web.xml?

As you can guess, we have quit using Java as our main development 
platform. This may be an "easy" question for the experienced pros on this 
list (I read to stay current with the topics of discussion). Any help you 
can provide is greatly appreciated.

Sean Durity
CornerCap Investment Counsel
Manager of IT
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