How To Install J2EE app to ColdFusion's Tomcat Server

[CutterBl]

Our client has purchased IBM Analytics, that they want to run with the ColdFusion servers. IBM has given over the EAR files to deploy on Tomcat. But, ColdFusion uses a highly modified Tomcat. How would someone deploy another J2EE app in this scenario, without installing another server?

[Anit_Kumar]

Hi,

Thank you for your post. Please refer to http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/10.0/Installing/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cdec18c28-7fda.htm... for J2EE deployment.

Regards,

Anit Kumar

[CutterBl]

Anit,

The information there appears to be about installing a J2EE version of CF. Are you saying that this same process can be used to deploy other J2EE apps as well?

[pete_freitag]

You can't deploy an EAR file on tomcat alone, it is only a servlet container so you can only deploy WAR files -- you need to install a full J2EE server like JBoss to deploy EAR files.   Now it could be that the EAR file only contains a WAR file, and the WAR file could be extracted (these are just zip files with different extensions) and deployed by copying bits into the existing WEB-INF, but that may or may not work.