Connector protocol and request handling in Tomcat 8

[Saurav Sarkar]

Hi All,

I want to know the connector's protocol which is being used in my tomcat 8
container and clear the  behaviour of request handling

We have a cloud foundry based application running on java build pack.

Below is the connector settings in server.xml

  <Connector port="${http.port}"

                   bindOnInit="false"

                   compression="on"


compressableMimeType="text/html,text/xml,text/plain,text/css,text/javascript,application/javascript,application/json"

                   allowTrace="false"

                   address="${connector.address}"

                   maxHttpHeaderSize="8192"

                   maxThreads="200"

                   server="tomcat" />


It does not show any connector details.


My thread dumps shows http-nio-exec threads and reaches to maximum of 200
threads.



Does that mean Nio connector is used ?


But i am not able to address more than 200 threads . I understand that if
Nio connector is used then maxThreads values be ignored and i can at least
accept more requests.


Best Regards,

Saurav