HP 5991-5565 manual HP Open Source Web Server Middleware Stack, Web Server Stack Architecture

HP Open Source Web Server Middleware Stack

The following components comprise the HP OSMS Web Server Middleware Stack:

Apache Web Server	The Apache Web Server is a mature open source web server that has
	become the de facto standard because of its high adoption rate on
	the Internet.
Apache Tomcat	Apache Tomcat (or Tomcat) is a J2EE servlet and Java™ Server Pages
	(JSP) engine for developing and deploying web applications. It also
	includes other features, such as an embedded web server.
Hibernate	Hibernate is an object/relational persistence and query service for
	Java. Hibernate provides support for collections and object relations,
	and composite types. In addition to persisting objects, Hibernate
	provides a rich query language to retrieve objects from the database,
	and an efficient caching layer and Java Management Extensions (JMX)
	support. User-defined data types and composite primary keys give
	additional flexibility to support legacy applications.
mod_jk	The mod_jk module is commonly used to allow Tomcat to handle
	Java Servlet and JSP requests while Apache httpd handles requests
	for static and dynamic contents implemented in PHP, Perl, or Python.
mod_ssl	The mod_ssl module provides a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and
	Transport Layer Security (TLS) implementation that allows web
	applications running within the Apache Web Server to communicate
	securely with their respective clients. Communication can still occur
	over standard HTTP while running mod_ssl.
Perl	Perl (Practical Extraction and Report Language) has long been a
	popular text-processing language. Recently, Perl has become popular
	for the development and deployment of web applications.
PHP	PHP is a scripting language that can be embedded in HTML pages,
	allowing developers to add more dynamic contents to their web
	applications. A large portion of the PHP syntax is similar to C and
	Java.
Python	Python is an object-oriented language that has a clean, straightforward
	syntax. Python can be extended to exploit facilities implemented in
	other programming languages, such as C and C++.
JDK	The Java Platform Standard Edition Development Kit (JDK) is a
	development platform for building Java-based applications and
	components.

Web Server Stack Architecture

This section provides architecture, configuration, and the software environment for a web server stack. Figure 1 shows the logical architecture of the stack.

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