Andrea Selva wrote:
Hi ML,
is there anybody that use http-core as base for a http server?
Welcome back, Andrea!
There are several projects I am aware of that use HttpCore for their
server side HTTP transport implementations: Apache Axis2, Apache
Synapse, Limewire, Little Portal Gizmo. I am sure there must be others.
While Synapse and Limewire represent some sort of a hybrid solution,
Simple HTTP server of Axis2 and Little Portal Gizmo can be considered
'real' HTTP servers. By hybrid I mean something that serves as both
client and server.
I do believe HttpCore makes a reasonable platform for custom hybrid
solutions like HTTP proxies, gateways, peer-to-peer agents. At the same
time I doubt it can (should) compete with Jetty in the lightweight HTTP
server space.
I think the design of this libraries is very good, and create yet another
http server could be good idea for two reason:
1) http-core is small, and a http server for embedded devices could take
this advantage in size and performance. Android use http-core but doesn't
have a usefull small web server.
2) the good device of http-core could influence also the design of this
small server.
With http-server i means a Servlet implementation.
Development of a servlet engine would be a _major_ undertaking. I am
also not entirely convinced this world needs another servlet engine
given how good Tomcat and Jetty are. However I am sure it would a fun
project to work on. Another possibility for a fun project _might_ be
taking a popular framework such as Wicket or Tapestry 5 that abstract
away servlet API behind a higher level API and trying to put it on top
of HttpCore.
Cheers
Oleg
Andrea Selva
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