Hi Peter, No. I'm talking about a servlet behaving as a non-HTTP server. This is something discussed in example 10-8 and 10-9 in section 10 of the book Java Servlet programming by Jason Hunter. This servlet, in its init() method, spawns a thread which opens a socket connection and listens for any non-HTTP request (or a protocol independent request).
Actually I'm confused - what can be an use of such a servlet. Regards, Sourav -----Original Message----- From: Peter Huber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 4:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Using Servlet as a non-http server I think it's quite a problem to leave http protocol behind but use servlet further. The servlet container needs url information from the "GET" or "POST" header to find the corresdonding servlet. So the request is restricted to obey http request rules. I think your question is about a none "html" server, isn't it? One example application for using a servlet serving XML output is a Flash- or Applet-client. Peter souravm wrote: > Hi All, > > Can anyone tell me what advantage one can get in implementing a non-http > server using Servlet instad of implementing the same using simple Java > class. > > Regards, > Sourav > > ________________________________________________________________________ ___ > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body > of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". > > Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html > Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html > LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html -- Peter Huber (IT Consultant) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Gauss Interprise Consulting AG Gesch�ftsstelle M�nchen Witneystr.1 D-82008 Unterhaching Telefon: +49-89-66561 - 128 Fax: +49-89-66561 - 199 e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Germany Web: http://www.gi-consulting.de ________________________________________________________________________ ___ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
