Re: gsoc project - Tomcat proxy [query]

2009-04-20 Thread jean-frederic clere
Sharmistha jat wrote: Please find my wiki page about existing servlet proxy at : http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/ServletProxy I will continue to add information to this page, please suggest any changes if required A note on the state of each would be cool (It seems J2EP is dead for

Re: gsoc project - Tomcat proxy [query]

2009-04-18 Thread Sharmistha jat
Please find my wiki page about existing servlet proxy at : http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/ServletProxy I will continue to add information to this page, please suggest any changes if required On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Sharmistha jat wrote: > Thanks for suggestion. [:)] > > On

Re: gsoc project - Tomcat proxy [query]

2009-04-15 Thread Sharmistha jat
Thanks for suggestion. [:)] On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 5:50 AM, Costin Manolache wrote: > One suggestion: I think it would be nice to consider scalability - if you > have one tomcat frontend forwarding to 100 backends and acting as a load > balancer - you probably can't afford one connection per thr

Re: gsoc project - Tomcat proxy [query]

2009-04-15 Thread Costin Manolache
One suggestion: I think it would be nice to consider scalability - if you have one tomcat frontend forwarding to 100 backends and acting as a load balancer - you probably can't afford one connection per thread. Many of the http forwarders I know use a blocking http client library - I think this wou

Re: gsoc project - Tomcat proxy [query]

2009-04-15 Thread jean-frederic clere
Sharmistha jat wrote: So, now i would try to install a tomcat cluster and make a simple servlet proxy [reverse] for it, then add in load-balancing logic to it Yep thst is the idea. +++ CUT +++ I have studied a number of servlet proxies like j2ep, noodle & Http Proxy Servlet in past days.

Re: gsoc project - Tomcat proxy [query]

2009-04-15 Thread Sharmistha jat
So, now i would try to install a tomcat cluster and make a simple servlet proxy [reverse] for it, then add in load-balancing logic to it [other parts like filtering n caching can be seen later] thanks for your help, its really helped me to see the project more clearly. >A Tomcat-based reverse p

Re: gsoc project - Tomcat proxy [query]

2009-04-15 Thread Jess Holle
A Tomcat-based reverse proxy with a pluggable load balancer would be /huge/ in my opinion. Having to resort to Apache (or a hardware load balancer) to distribute load across multiple Tomcats is /really /unfortunate. What's needed is a high-performance Java-based proxy load balancer that make

Re: gsoc project - Tomcat proxy [query]

2009-04-15 Thread jean-frederic clere
Sharmistha jat wrote: Dear All, I have applied for tomcat proxy project, but i needed a little more information than given in the project idea, to start with the design of proxy. So i would like to know more about the following: 1) Type of proxy [reverse,content filter,caching etc]. Just a r

gsoc project - Tomcat proxy [query]

2009-04-15 Thread Sharmistha jat
Dear All, I have applied for tomcat proxy project, but i needed a little more information than given in the project idea, to start with the design of proxy. So i would like to know more about the following: 1) Type of proxy [reverse,content filter,caching etc]. 2) Use [intent] I have studied a