> hey - this looks interesting.
I'm glad you think so. I can use all the help I can get. :)
> On Mon, 2 Jul 2001 10:40, D. Jay Newman wrote:
> > I'm sorry, but I agree with Nick.
> me too
>
> > > > could someone give me a nice example how to write a web.xml in which i
> > > > can use my generic servlet which uses my own protocol?
> What sort of a protocol are you looking at? My understanding is that _any_
> request/reply based messaging could be done this way.
Well, I'm just looking at sending XML messages back and forth. This could
easily be encapsulated into the HTTP protocol, but I don't see any reason
to make things more difficult than that are already.
> I have no idea about this in practice, but AFAIK I cant see any reason why
> you'd need to depart from a standard web.xml file. I'm assuming that the
> servlet-class needs to be a Servlet (not HttpServlet). How far have you got
> with this? I'd be really interested to hear more.
>
> btw - on a side note, which may be (vaguely) related. I once tried to create
> my own HttpServletRequest and HttpServletResponse types for use within a
> servlet, to simulate firing a request to a RequestDispatcher. It didn't work
> - the first line of forward was attempted casting my HttpServletRequest to a
> tomcat specific class. Not sure how legit what I was doing is, or how legit
> tomcat's casting was, but it didn't work. Things like this _might, maybe_ be
> of some use to you (o:
I've looked at the code of the connectors and such in Tomcat 4.0b5 and found
that they are very tightly tied to HTTP.
Until now I haven't had enough free time to get anything new done.
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