indeed. within one singular jswdk instance you can now
have multiple "services" running each with it's own assigned
port. this can be helpful for a development team that
may not want to install multiple servers. each developer
(or student) can get their own port and work space. then
again, with the advent of a webApp, developers could share
a service/port yet have distinct content space with which
to play with. a practical example of servers supporting
multiple services is http (ie port 0) and ssl (ie 443).
some folks may want to run more then one server on the
same machine. again, my development team did this for
staging and testing. this is the reason we needed to
beef up the "singular fixed admin port" item. there are,
as others have stated, reasons and scenarios where this
wouldn't be a good solution.
the options are abundant which should be a good thing ...
as long as what options are made available is clear.
we just want to make sure that jswdk works for all types
of developers:
servlet
jsp
gurus
up and coming gurus
i wouldn't get too hung up on being an xml guru or not. my
interest is in making sure the configuration data is
intuitive to work with. i personally find the property
name space a bit flat and not as expersive as xml. that
and the next release of jswdk wil use xml "deployment
descriptors" for the context (web application) configuration.
hope this helps,
- james
"Craig R. McClanahan" wrote:
>
> Luc Saint-Elie wrote:
>
> > Hello James and al
> >
> > I don't really get the point with the new xml setting:
> >
> > What is the difference between a Service and a webApplication ?
> >
> > I mean, it probably obvious but I'm not yet a xml guru (far from that :-) )
> > what is the XML equivalent of the old default.cfg settings :
>
> Luc,
>
> Think of a <Service> as an "endpoint" -- a particular TCP port number -- onto
> which you can install one or more web applications (i.e. servlet contexts).
>
> The 1.0-ea kit allowed you only one service (the one you configured with the
> server.xxxxx properties). Now, you can listen on more than one port
> independently -- each with its own set of apps.
>
> Craig
>
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