"[Jwas J]" wrote: > > Why you are sayinig that a container can't support more than > one protocol ? >
I'm saying I don't know of any containers that currently support extra XXXServlet types. That doesn't mean there aren't any, just that they aren't so popular as to have impinged on my awareness. Also: check the archives. > I want to implement a new protocol .. Not for commercial > purposes but for study alone :-) > Sure, why not. Take a look at the SIP stuff I mentioned in the last message if you're looking for inspiration. And definitely check the archives of this list for other discussions on this topic, especially any mention of whatever that (Apache?) project was. > "Servlets are very specific to HTTP " Can you elaborate > on this .. > Take a look at javax.servlet.ServletRequest. It assumes there's a content-type, a variable length body, a locale, headers, a "scheme", etc. Not to mention the fact that the API assumes that you're going to be using the service() method as your only interaction with the underlying protocol. Of course, you could map all that to a very different underlying protocol (make a fixed body length mandatory, hardcode the scheme, etc) but what would be the point? It's easier to just write your own server that's specialized for your own non-HTTP protocol. > > "But I wouldn't be doing you a favor to > > give you the link, even if I had it sitting around" > > Why ? Come on :-) > I know this is going to sound obnoxious, but I don't mean it to be: If you can't find the docs on your own, you're not going to be able to do any Tomcat internals development. Also, I don't have the reference handy and don't feel like looking it up (I'd just use google and surf around a bit on the jakarta site, and you can do that yourself) Good luck, it sounds like you want to learn by coding, which is a good thing... -- Christopher St. John [EMAIL PROTECTED] DistribuTopia http://www.distributopia.com ___________________________________________________________________________ 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
