Thanks, I've seen that document a few times. Just took another (closer) look through it, and looked backed at the snippet of deploy.wsdd that we're using, and we're defining a <transport> to be CommonsHTTPSender, not a <pivot> -- which matches the description in the architecture doc.
On the client side the pivot is the transport, and on the server side the pivot is the service handler it seems (maybe I'm not using the right word here, as handler seems to have a specific meaning in the axis architecture docs). It seems that the transport classes for axis when deployed in tomcat are totally defined in tomcat's server.xml.
Anyway, my immediate problem has been solved. We had a problem where our deploy was corrupting the jar containing tomcat's HTTP/1.1 connector, which left tomcat defaulting to an older connector.
Thanks for the suggestion!
--Peter
On Jul 27, 2004, at 6:18 AM, Somerville, Michael S wrote:
Peter --
One quick thought -- the .wsdd mentions 'pivot' and I remember reading
in the Axis documentation about their notion of a pivot point in the
communication pipeline. As I remember, a pivot point is where a message
changes from being a response to being a request. You might check out
the Axis Architecture Guide
(http://ws.apache.org/axis/java/architecture-guide.html) and see if
anything in there addresses your question more specifically. It looked
pretty general, but it might point you in the right direction.
Hope this helps!
-mike somerville.
-----Original Message----- From: Peter Molettiere [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 8:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: HttpClient and Tomcat: Can someone explain something?
I'm wondering if someone can explain something fairly basic for me.
We're using axis with CommonsHTTPSender in order to get Keep Alive to work, in preparation for implementing SSL.
I understand how the axis config can control the class which does the socket handling on the client, but on the server, it seems that Tomcat would be handling the HTTP connection itself, and just handing AxisServlet the HTTPServletRequest and Response objects -- ie., I don't see how axis gets a chance to configure what class does the HTTP connection handling in Tomcat.
How does this work? Does Tomcat actually use HTTPClient when you specify the following in deploy.wsdd?
<transport name="http" pivot="java:org.apache.axis.transport.http.CommonsHTTPSender"> <requestFlow> <handler type="URLMapper"/> <handler type="java:org.apache.axis.handlers.http.HTTPAuthHandler"/> </requestFlow> <parameter name="qs:list" value="org.apache.axis.transport.http.QSListHandler"/> <parameter name="qs:wsdl" value="org.apache.axis.transport.http.QSWSDLHandler"/> <parameter name="qs:method" value="org.apache.axis.transport.http.QSMethodHandler"/> </transport>
How does that work? Where should I start looking to understand this piece of axis?
Thanks for any help at all.
--Peter
