Costin, I appreciate you taking the time to further explain jk!!!
Thank You, Anthony > 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]>
