On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Anthony W. Marino wrote: > The example for "mod_jk2" shows a worker's config for "AJP13" but I thought > that "jk2" is "AJP14"?
Well, there is a lot of confusion ( and I'm talking about those of us who are working on the connector !). We used to call 'ajp13' 3 things: - a wire protocol - an API - an 'worker' There is even more confusion in the term 'worker', but that's a different story. mod_jk(1,2) are all supporting multiple protocols and multiple APIs. By protocol I mean the wire format, how the strings, ints, etc are marshalled and packed. For example we support 'ajp12' - the protocol that is used in mod_jserv, and we support what is called 'ajp13', an extension that is bidirectional and more efficient. There is also JNI - but that's a special case. We also support a couple of 'APIs' - i.e. 'methods' that are called on the server and container ( looking at mod_jk as a basic RPC mechanism ). We call 'ajp13' the API that is normally used with tomcat ( all versions ). We decided ( I hope ) that the protocol is good enough - I can see no major improvement that would justify changing it. If we change, I hope we'll just switch to (subset of ) CDR or XDR (i.e. standard formats) - but that may affect the performance and add unneeded complexity. mod_jk2 will support additional APIs - i.e. things like autoconfiguration, md5-handshaking, etc. The focus so far has been in refactoring the core to make it more flexible and cleanup the configuration - in order to better support the new features without messing the code. If you are interested in more discussions - I would sugest joining tomcat-dev. Mod_jk2 is not yet ready - but it will be ready much sooner with your help :-) Costin > Anthony > > > > Thanks to Michael Delamere and Pascal Forget, I'm happy to shout out > > that there's a HOWTO for setting up Apache 2, mod_jk2 and Tomcat on > > Linux (and therefore probably other UNIX flavours) > > > > It's linked from http://www.pubbitch.org/jboss > > > > Regards, > > > > Simon > > > > -- > To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
