Another thought .. you can do some request dispatching, but without knowing more about the tools you're using, I can't say for sure if this is the direction you'll want to go.
On 4/29/19, Paul Carter-Brown <paul.carter-br...@jini.guru> wrote: > Hi > > I'm trying to design a Kafka consumer and producer that will run inside the > tomcat jvm and pick up messages off a Kafka topic and translate them into a > servlet request and pass it through tomcat and then when the response is > complete then translate it into a Kafka message and put it onto another > topic as a reply. This way I can reuse our existing jax-rs rest services > and expose them as an async api over Kafka. The idea is to make the Kafka > messages similar to http in that they would consist of headers and a body. > The body would be json. > > Now I know this could be done by calling localhost with an http call to > trombone the requests back into tomcat but I'd like to avoid the associated > latency and overhead. Is it possible to call tomcat directly in-process. > This does not need to be portable to other containers so can be > proprietary. > > I'm using tomcat 8. In fact its tomee 8 but guessed this is more a tomcat > question than tomee but have sent to both groups just in case. > > Thanks for any insights. > > Paul > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
