MT, Many thanks for the prompt reply. I read into the document, however, didn't find the answer to my question as following,
3. If using sockets, jdk 1.4 has only socket for TCP and UDP. But when the apache and tomcat are deployed in the same machine, isn't it an overhead to go down to the lower layers when sending data stream, and go upwards when receiving data? Any hint? Kan On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 09:14:34 +0200, Mladen Turk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kan Deng wrote: > > Hi, there, > > > > Apache is a C application while Tomcat is in pure Java. Would you > > please complain the mechanism for the communication between these two? > > Especially, does it use shared memory or a temporary file or sockets? > > > > It uses sockets and AJP13 protocol for communication. > > > > > Would you please give me a conceptual explanation or a pointer to some > > documents, and in addition what classes in Tomcat source code handling > > this IPC as well as the C modules of Apache? > > > > The best way to start is: > http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/connectors-doc/jk2/index.html > > Regards, > MT. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]