Now that we have Lifecycle Listeners, I want to start a little discussion around some of the Tomcat listeners that come standard installed in their container and whether we include them or not in the default plan.
Currently Tomcat has the following listeners attached to their standalone container: (Full package names included here for folks who want to look at the Tomcat source) org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener org.apache.catalina.mbeans.ServerLifecycleListener org.apache.catalina.mbeans.GlobalResourcesLifecycleListener org.apache.catalina.storeconfig.StoreConfigLifecycleListener AprLifecycleListener - Init and and destroy APR. ServerLifecycleListener - Instantiates the set of MBeans associated with the components of a running instance of Catalina. GlobalResourcesLifecycleListener - Instantiates the set of MBeans associated with global JNDI resources that are subject to management. StoreConfigLifecycleListener - Load and Register StoreConfig MBean Catalina:type=StoreConfig,resource="url" I think we can rewrite our own ServerLifecycleListener to have Tomcat use our mbean server instead of them creating their own. That would allow their objects show up in our server, so I think we should add something like that class. The GlobalResourcesLifecycleListener and StoreConfigLifecycleListener I am not sure if we need, but if we were to use them we may want our own impls to it follows our Object naming scheme. But most importantly I want to talk about the AprLifecycleListener. I really think we should add this as a default listener in the plan because this will allow people to use a netive APR connector and *really* get some incredible performance out of Geronimo. For those not familiar with APR, its the Apache Portable Runtime project. http://apr.apache.org/ It basically will test if you have compiled natice binaries for your platform, and if it find them, it will use those instead of hte pure java implementation. The listener is really for initialization and destruction on start/stop of the server, so there is no overhead. This can really give Geronimo a performance boost, especially for those who use it in a high load site. Thoughts and opinions on me enabling that listener? Also thoughts on some of the other listeners would be good as well. Thanks, Jeff
