On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 1:07 PM, S Ahmed <sahmed1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Just getting up to speed on java threading/sockets/io/etc. and very much > exciting about all things cassandra. > > My question is, in what context is cassandra running on a server? > > i.e. does the entire service run in a java container like tomcat/jetty? > or does it run like java -jar cassandra.jar and then internally sits idle > (while loop) until a client connects to it via a socket?
The latter, more or less. > Can someone please point me to where in the codebase this happends? o.a.c.thrift.CassandraDaemon