Benson Margulies wrote:
Why are you using tomcat at all if you don't want it to control the
endpoint? Why not just launch the endpoint from a plain Java main via the
embedded jetty?
Because when I have 100+ endpoints I want to have a place where I can
see them all; start and stop them all; fail them all over to a standby;
monitor them all; etc.
I could, of course, write my own wrapper to control a load of
independent java apps, but using an existing Tomcat is much simpler and
almost certainly more reliable.
The ability to hot deploy is crucial, so putting everything in one app
won't work (without even more work from me).
I'd be very happy to find that there is a better way of doing this, but
separate apps isn't it and a single app isn't it.
An ESB ought to be an option, however my experience with them has shown
that although it's going to take me more work to get my first proxy set
up this way, after that the time to deploy and maintain each individual
proxy will be much less using POJOs rather than ESB constructs.
Thanks
Jim
