Nodejs on Apache Tomcat

[Pratik Patel]

Hi,

Is it possible to run nodejs application on apache tomcat?

Thanks,
Pratik

[Aria Stewart]

> On Feb 12, 2015, at 9:04 AM, Pratik Patel <xprati...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to run nodejs application on apache tomcat?

Kind of not really.

node.js runs as a separate process, and it's not written in Java, so a Tomcat container won't help too much. (As a side note, check out vert.x for something node-like but JVM-friendly. You won't get the whole ecosystem of node though)

Usually people integrate node with an HTTP proxy, rather than an app container -- something like apache with a reverse proxy module, or nignx.

I imagine there's ways to hack something of interest up, but what are your goals for doing so?

Aria

[Pratik Patel]

Thanks Aria. 

I have a web application running on Tomcat with MySQL database. I am aiming to generate automated network documents and integrate it into our web application. After reading some articles, blogs and evaluating products, I could find that klyajs-noflo ( https://github.com/noflo/klayjs-noflo ) would best suit our requirements. However, klayjs-noflo is built on top of Node.js, so I was thinking if I can deploy Node.js app(klayjs-noflo) in Tomcat somehow.

Regards,

Pratik

[Aria Stewart]

> On Feb 12, 2015, at 11:34 AM, Pratik Patel <xprati...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Thanks Aria.
>
> I have a web application running on Tomcat with MySQL database. I am aiming to generate automated network documents and integrate it into our web application. After reading some articles, blogs and evaluating products, I could find that klyajs-noflo ( https://github.com/noflo/klayjs-noflo ) would best suit our requirements. However, klayjs-noflo is built on top of Node.js, so I was thinking if I can deploy Node.js app(klayjs-noflo) in Tomcat somehow.

Oh that is an interesting case.

It doesn't look like klayjs-noflow is built to run on node at all. node is used to run dependency management tools -- like bower -- but it's a javascript library meant to run in the browser. It should be able to be integrated with your java based server with little difficulty, as regular web assets.

Do you need to run the klayjs-noflow in the server instead, offloading from the browser? Or would that suffice?

Aria

[Pratik Patel]

Hi Aria,

Thanks for the information. If I could run klayjs-noflow on the server it would be great otherwise I will try to stick it with browser only.

Regards,

Pratik