Thanks for the info, Dan. I will try to reproduce/diagnose these.
Steve
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Milstein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 1:51 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Volunteer: Connectors?
>
>
> Steve,
>
> Any help would be greatly, greatly appreciated.
>
> Here's my quick state of the union w/r/t Connectors:
>
> 1) First off, there are two totally distinct branches of development
> currently -- TC 3.x and TC 4.x. The underlying codebases are
> completely
> different. TC 4 is the future of the jakarta tomcat project,
> but has not
> had a production release yet. The 3.x branch has had a
> production release
> (3.2.1 is the latest), but has also been dramatically
> refactored since that
> time.
>
> So, there are a bunch of upcoming releases:
>
> 4.0 I'm not sure the schedule for this one -- there's been a
> milestone
> release, but there's been some serious reworking since then.
> I think this
> should happen within a few months.
>
> 3.3 This is the refactored version of the 3.x branch. There
> should be a
> release within about 2 months.
>
> There's also an imminent 3.2.2 release which has a bunch of bug fixes
> against 3.2.1 but does *not* contain the major refactoring.
>
>
> 2) Why am I explaining all of this? Well, the connectors are
> (currently)
> different for 3.x and 4.x. For TC 3.x the main connectors
> are built around
> the mod_jk plugin, which works with a variety of web servers
> (Apache 1.3,
> 2.0, Netscape, IIS, AOLServer), and talks a variety of protocols to
> communicate with TC (ajp12, ajp13).
>
> If you are interested in working on mod_jk, I could point you
> at some bugs
> which have been reported -- if you could verify them and fix
> them in the 3.x
> tree, you would be doing a great, great service. I
> understand mod_jk pretty
> well, and ajp13 quite well, and could help you get started
> with that. This
> would probably be a good way for you to learn your away
> around the current
> connector setup. The src/docs directory has a bunch of useful stuff.
>
> A few example mod_jk/ajp13 bugs in Bugzilla (some of which
> have been lying
> around in the bug system for a while, and may have been fixed
> in the 3.3
> branch -- I haven't had time to verify):
>
> http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=484
> http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=512
> http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=356
>
> If you fixed some bugs within the next month, we could put
> those fixes into
> the 3.3 release.
>
>
> For TC 4.x, the only current connector is mod_webapp, which
> is being written
> by Pier Fumagalli. It had an alpha release as part of TC 4.0m1, but I
> believe he's engaged in a decent-sized rewrite since then (removing
> multiplexing). I don't know if he's at a point where he
> could use help on
> that yet -- Pier?
>
> mod_webapp has some different design goals that mod_jk -- it
> should be much
> easier to configure (which would be a big, big win). There
> has been some
> discussion about merging mod_webapp and mod_jk down the road.
> Which is
> mostly just to say that any work done on mod_jk will almost
> definitely be
> used by many people for a long time -- within the 3.x branch,
> and possibly
> within the 4.x branch as well.
>
> Let me know if you'd like more info...
>
> -Dan
>
> "Jones, Stephen" wrote:
> >
> > Hi-- I work w/ Rational Software. We have been working with
> Tomcat for some
> > time for our web product, RequisiteWeb. I'd like to
> volunteer to help out in
> > the Tomcat Connectors department. I am a 1.5-year Java
> veteran w/ a CS
> > bachelor's degree, wanting to help produce free software.
> >
> > Let me know where/if I can be of help.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Steve Jones
> >
> > PS Rational.com needs Java developers
> >
> >
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