Re: Different approach to TC as a service (was:SeparatingServicecode from Tomcat 4.0)

[Pier P. Fumagalli]

Andy Armstrong at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> "Pier P. Fumagalli" wrote:
>> 
>> Andy Armstrong at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>> 
>>> I only used JServ briefly before switching to Tomcat and "it worked for
>>> me"(tm). Can you recall any of the specific problems?
>> 
>> It was back in 1997, and I remember several patches across 2 months from Ed
>> Korthof just to "make it work". But you should get back and see the
>> archives.
>> 
>> I remember it was a big pain in the ass (and that for Jserv 1.0 I  was
>> always starting Jserv stand alone!)
> 
> I'll do some reading. Do you recall whether the problems where specific
> to that implementation of the startup code or more generically related
> to having the servlet container autostart?

Oh, I remember it was about invoking the startup script, and also one big
hassle was to shut down JServ from Apache, connecting to the port to issue a
shutdown command...

    Pier