5.3 Third-Party Listener Support
Oracle Application Server can also use
two other web servers (listeners) besides Apache:Java
System Web Server (formerly Sun ONE
Web Server)
Microsoft Internet Information Server
(IIS)
Oracle Application Server provides a proxy plug-in that allows you to
transparently forward requests from these two servers to the Oracle
HTTP Server. In this setup, the Oracle HTTP Server acts as a reverse
HTTP proxy server; it receives and
forwards a request to the appropriate content engine, but then points
a redirect to the third-party listener. The Oracle HTTP Server as a
proxy server mimics the host address and port of these listeners so
that the proxy is completely transparent to any applications using
the third-party listener.Oracle Application Server also provides a lightweight
single sign-on plug-in for these two
servers. The plug-in is a partial implementation of the OracleAS
Single Sign-On module. It allows these servers to seamlessly
integrate with OracleAS Single Sign-On on the application server.