Any ability to configure in custom JioEndpoint? http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/api/org/apache/tomcat/util/net/JIoEndpoint.html
which can be configured as parameter to Ajp? http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/api/org/apache/coyote/ajp/AjpProcessor.html#AjpProcessor(int,%20org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint) ? Martin ______________________________________________ Disclaimer and confidentiality note Everything in this e-mail and any attachments relates to the official business of Sender. This transmission is of a confidential nature and Sender does not endorse distribution to any party other than intended recipient. Sender does not necessarily endorse content contained within this transmission. > To: users@tomcat.apache.org > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Tomcat Custom Connector > Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:51:35 -0700 > > The Adapter is set in the initialize method of the Connector > (http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/api/org/apache/catalina/connector/Connector.html). > > You can pretty much just trust that Tomcat will give you an Adapter instance > before the first request comes through, since that is the contract. Yes, > the current implementation only will give you an instance of CoyoteAdapter, > but programming your ProtocolHandler around this is dangerous, since the > contract only promises an instance of Adapter. > > The Adapter is the bridge between your ProtocolHandler and the Tomcat > Servlet Container. Once you hand off your Request and Response objects to > the Adapter, you can trust that Tomcat will handle all of the Servlet-Spec > parts by itself, including finding the Servlet to send the request to. At > that point, you are only responsible for communicating with the client over > the wire via the InputBuffer and OutputBuffer interfaces. For example, the > various AJP/1.3 Connectors > (http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/api/org/apache/coyote/ajp/AjpProcessor.html) > > convert the message into AJP/1.3 format before sending it over the wire to > Apache httpd. > > Once you have figured out how to initialize the Request and Response objects > to look enough like the wire protocol was HTTP, the rest is really pretty > easy :). For non-HTTP protocols (e.g. trying to make Tomcat look like an > FTP server), this is the hard part. > > "Simon Aquilina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hi, > > I have checked the code in Tomcat again, and although it is very confusing I > feel I did understand something here and there :) > > However I have a question - where is the adapter being set? No Adapter is > being initialized in the 'JIoEndPoint', 'Http11Protocol' and > 'Http11Processor'. I also checked the 'server.xml' file and this is not > being set! From the API documentation I found out the 'CoyoteAdapter'; so is > this the default being used for Tomcat? Is it the CoyoteAdapter which is > responsible to find the servlet for which the request is? or? > > Thanks for any comments, > Simon J. > > To: users@tomcat.apache.org> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: > > Tomcat Custom Connector> Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 19:17:03 -0700> > AFAIK, > > there isn't a lot of documentation. But there isn't that much too > it. > > You need to implement a ProtocolHandler > > > (http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/api/org/apache/coyote/ProtocolHandler.html) > > > > > This class is responsible for managing the transport (e.g. ServerSocket) > > and > request threads (but the various EndPoint classes in > > > org.apache.tomcat.util.net may simplify this aspect for you). For best > > > results, this class may implement ActionHook as well > > > (http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/api/org/apache/coyote/ActionHook.html).> > > > > > When a new request comes in, it is the ProtocolHandler's job to > > initialize a > Request > > > (http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/api/org/apache/coyote/Request.html) > > > > > and a Response > > > (http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/api/org/apache/coyote/Response.html) > > > > > objects for it, making certain that they get valid InputBuffer > > > (http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/api/org/apache/coyote/InputBuffer.html) > > > > > and OutputBuffer > > > (http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/api/org/apache/coyote/OutputBuffer.html) > > > > > instances to comunicate with the client. Then within the thread, you > > hand > the Request and Response off to the service method of the Adapter > > > (http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/api/org/apache/coyote/Adapter.html) > > > > > that Tomcat will give to the ProtocolHandler. And that is pretty much it > > > :).> > Using the standard server.xml (as opposed to Embedding), you > > would configure > Tomcat to use your Connector with an element like:> > > <Connector protocol="com.myfirm.mypackage.MyProtocolHandler" ... />> Any > > other attributes in the <Connector /> tag will be passed JavaBean style > > > to the ProtocolHandler to handle init options.> > For the simplest > > example, look at > org.apache.coyote.memory.MemoryProtocolHandler (but > > this one is mostly > useful for unit testing).> > "Simon Aquilina" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi,> I am > > interested in building a custom connector for Tomcat. I have checked > the > > Tomcat source code and found the source code for the ‘http11’ and ‘ajp’ > > > connectors. I thought of trying to understand the code of these two > > > connectors and then try to implement mine based on these. However I am no > > > expert and was wondering if there is any good documentation/tutorial on > > how > a connector can be developed for Tomcat (I would later use this > > connector > with Geronimo).> Just to give you some insight; what I want to > > achieve is to build a custom > connector so that Tomcat can understand > > requests made from a 3rd party > clients who cannot communicate using the > > Http protocol and nor do they > expect data in html format. Additionally > > some of the clients could > communicate on Bluetooth!> I do not know if > > the above is even possible but I am willing to try :)> Thanks for any > > replies,> Regards,Sim085> > > _________________________________________________________________> News, > > entertainment and everything you care about at Live.com. Get it now!> > > http://www.live.com/getstarted.aspx > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------> > > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org> To unsubscribe, > > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, > > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > _________________________________________________________________ > News, entertainment and everything you care about at Live.com. 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