Hi there,
today I stumbled over the following problem: We are developing a new software platform base on a web-service application that is targeting tomcat as application server. This I quite easy. No we have embedded devices not capable of accessing web-services that are driving a proprietary protocol. Since the endpoint for those devices is the web-service application as well in the end, I was think about how we could host this custom protocol inside tomcat cleanly. A quick and dirty approach would be to create a servlet loaded on startup creating a listening socket on a desired port. Although this would suffice for the moment it has some drawbacks (we could not make use of the tomcat infrastructure (connection pooling, thread pooling, )) After some research I found out that one could provide an own implementation of a tomcat connector (more precisely: of a tomcat protocol handler). In the end my question is: How is this done the best way? At best this would also work in clustered environments. Sincerely Sebastian Götz
