Hey, Are you referring to the connector framework of Tomcat? Frankly I don't see how you can't do what you want with Geronimo+Tomcat.
I once developed an HTTP load balancer, and used Tomcat as the base. It was very easy to link into any stage of the HTTP connection, from the raw packets down to a Servlet instance back up to the raw transmission of the response. If you need any help on this, I should be able to help. I can even send you some sample code if you get stuck with specifics. The general idea was this: 1. I kept tomcat in tact. I did everything by adding a JAR file to tomcat's lib directory. 2. I loaded my engine/connectors through server.xml configuration. I'm not sure where this is in Geronimo. They might have their own classes which generates the config responses programmatically. So I can't tell you how you would load your own engine/connectors. 3. I implemented my own Service extends StandardService (You need to override most of it's methods due to visibility problems - or implement your own. A simple copy paste is a bit of code reuse, but it achieves the purpose). 4. Implemented my own Engine extends StandardEngine 5. Used the standard Http11NioProtocol connector. >From the above I was able to build a very complex load balancer. So you don't need to write your own. Benefit from Tomcat's stability and superior performance under high loads - something that will take you long to do. Anyway. Before you start modifying source code. What type of requests do you want to handle? Q On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 8:44 PM, David Jencks <david_jen...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > On Sep 6, 2009, at 11:23 AM, sim085 wrote: > >> >> Hi, >> >> At the moment when you download Geronimo you are asked if you want >> Geronimo >> with Jetty or Tomcat. These are both web servers which handle http >> requests. >> I am trying to develop my own web server to handle different type of >> requests (but still have to return html and therefore the connector >> framework is not suitable). So my question is can I develop my own web >> server and if yes where can I read more about this? > > Geronimo is pretty modular so you should have no difficulty integrating > whatever you come up with in geronimo. Since you don't provide any details > of what you are trying to do its difficult to do anything other than point > you at the geronimo code base. If you provided more details on the protocol > you are planning to use we could point you in a more focussed direction. > Personally I'm a little confused because I thought "web server" was usually > used to mean "server for http requests". > > thanks > david jencks > >> >> Regards, >> Sim085 >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://www.nabble.com/Can-I-make-Geronimo-work-with-my-own-implementation-of-web-server--tp25320346s134p25320346.html >> Sent from the Apache Geronimo - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> > > -- Quintin Beukes
