> From: Jonathan Mast [mailto:jhmast.develo...@gmail.com] > Subject: Re: Can Tomcat be used to host socket servers? > > By socket servers, I mean the existing programs are bound > to a particular port number and just sit there waiting for > requests. The port numbers are arbitrary
How do they get assigned? When you say the program is listening for a request, does it have a socket_read or socket_accept up? (The first is looking for data, the second for a connection request.) > I'm not knowledgeable enough of networking to know whether > they use HTTP or not. That's a rather critical factor to determine whether or not you can simply pass on the request to a servlet. > The reason I would have liked Tomcat to handle the whole > shebang is that now I'll have to adjust each system that > hosts these sockets to automatically invoke them when they > restart. Kinda tedious. You won't be able to use a stock Tomcat to listen/read on those ports, but you could still package your socket servers inside a webapp. A ServletContextListener inside the webapp would likely have to create a thread for each port of interest, and those threads could connect with the standar Tomcat port to pass on HTTP-formatted requests. Your clients would have to expect HTTP as a response, or your server threads would have to convert the response to whatever protocol the clients do expect. You could also write your own Tomcat connector to do the above, rather than a webapp, but you would then be pretty much tied to a specific level of Tomcat. - Chuck THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail and its attachments from all computers. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
