[esb-java-user] How to operate ESB and WSAS on the same machine.

[Rajika Kumarasiri]

On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 16:02 +0900, Takahiro OGAWA wrote:
> Hi, all.
hi,
> 
> We are trying to migrate our SOAP applications from Tomcat-axis2
>  to Carbon(WSAS).
> Moreover, We are trying to put ESB as front end for the scalability
>  and load-balancing.
> 
> However, it is not economical to prepare(purchase) another
> physical server for ESB, so I want to test an structure as such.
>  Primary Server  :ESB+WSAS
>  Secondary Server:WSAS
> 
> Then, how should I configure ESB and WSAS to operate them
>  on the same machine(at Primary Server)?
> 
> I have 3 ideas below.
> 
> 1)Operate WSAS on Virtual Server(VMWare)
> 
> Clearly it is possible and is possible and better in availability,
>  its overhead will not be little.
> 
> 2)Operate WSAS on same machine but another directory and process.
> 
> In this case, WSAS and ESB are installed into different directories.
> It is possible by changing the ports of management console, axis2
>  and so on, but carbon-core and axis2 will be doubly started.
yes you can change the ports and run WSAS and ESB on the same machine.
Have a look at the transport.xml in WSAS distribution. 

-Rajika


> 
> 3)Integrate WSAS and ESB on same process
> 
> It seems not impossible to deploy ESB on WSAS when referring to here.
> <http://evanthika.blogspot.com/2009/02/deploying-wso2-esb-20-on-apache-tomcat.html>
> And the opposite might be also.
> I think it is more natural to put WSAS on ESB, since ESB comes
>  to the front end.
> 
> But is this possible by editing the setting xmls and copying libs
>  and jars?
> (I have compared both dependencies.html, and I have felt it would
>  be very difficult for me, if not impossible. )
> 
> Moreover, when assuming it is possible (...or not impossible)
> How does WSO2 Management Console become?
> If management GUI is not available, the advantage of Carbon
>  will be reduced by half for us.
> 
> Do general users adopt 1) or 2) ?
> Then, it might be a foolish question, I'm sorry.
> 
> Any suggestions and comments are appriciated.
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