mod_webapp questions..

2001-05-01 Thread Vishy Kasar
Hi, I have a few questions on connectivity between Apache and TomCat4. I am a newbie to tomcat, so feel free to brush me aside with pointers to existing documents or source code. IMO, The connectivity layer between apache and tomcat has to deal with the following issues. 1. Protocol: The proto

Changing the TomCat Directory structure...

2001-06-15 Thread Vishy Kasar
Hi, We are thinking of embedding TomCat4.0 in our app server. We have limited number of top level directories and want to rearrange the TomCat files in that directory structure. Specifically we want the common/lib to be present as lib/common and server/lib to be present as lib/server. This will

StandardContext.getNamingContextName returns non unique name

2001-07-10 Thread Vishy Kasar
StandardContext.getNamingContextName() returns name of the form /host/context no matter which engine the context is part of. This will create a problem for running multiple services serving the same webapp. It should be returning the name of the form /engine/host/context Let me know if this i

Re: StandardContext.getNamingContextName returns non unique name

2001-07-12 Thread Vishy Kasar
Remy writes - > StandardContext.getNamingContextName() returns name of the form > > /host/context > > no matter which engine the context is part of. This will create a > problem for running multiple services serving the same webapp. It should > be returning the name of the form >

Addition of 'dirty' field to Session interface

2001-08-07 Thread Vishy Kasar
Hi, In order to support persistent failover, we have written our own Store class that writes session data to DB of our choice. We decided to use maxIdleBackups as that will save the data periodically to disk without getting rid of it in memory. PersistentManagerBase.processMaxIdleBackups() writes

Missing pr_warp_defs.h

2001-08-13 Thread Vishy Kasar
Pier, I have downloaded the Tomcat b7 source and the associated webap connector sources. When I tried to build mod_webapp, I get a compile time error stating that pr_warp_defs.h referenced in pr_warp.h is not found. I tried to get that file from the CVS repository but could not find it there eith

Unnecessary creation of session data...

2001-09-04 Thread Vishy Kasar
Hi, Here is an improvement suggestion. Assume a TomCat instance is serving a session which is being backed up in a Database. That TomCat instance dies and another comes up. When browser sends another request pertaining to the session it has already established with previous instance of tomcat, t