Chapter 10 Deploying Applications Around Proxies and Firewalls

Connecting through proxy servers

Proxy servers are typically used to constrain and secure connections from an organization's computers to sites that require connecting across the Internet. To enhance security, some network configurations require all Internet connections to go through a proxy server, including IIOP connections to EAServer.

EAServer supports two types of proxy servers for Java clients, Web proxies and reverse proxies.