Installing multiple Web Component Adapters

You can install multiple Web Component Adapters (WCA) by deploying multiple instances of webcompadapter.war.

If you deploy each WCA on a separate Java application server, installing multiple WCAs is roughly equivalent to installing multiple Web Component Servers (in a Windows installation of Crystal Enterprise that uses the Crystal Enterprise COM SDK). If you deploy each WCA on the same Java application server, installing multiple WCAs is equivalent to creating multiple virtual directories for your web server (in a Windows installation of Crystal Enterprise that uses the Crystal Enterprise COM SDK). See Configuring Web Connectors for more information.

When you install more than one WCA, each webcomponentadapter.war file contains its own web.xml file that contains configuration parameters for that WCA. However, you can only set the following parameters individually for each WCA:

• cspApplication.defaultPage
• cspApplication.dir
• connection.cms
• connection.listenPort
• log.file
• log.ext
• log.isRolling
• log.size
• log.level
• log.entryPattern

The remaining parameters must be the same for all WCAs.

See Changing the default deployment values for the WCA for information on changing the values in web.xml.