Hi Oleg, thankyou for the complete reply. I'm searching for a fun project, and i thinked of yet another http server. You gave me very good pointers on this to experiment with http-core. If i find something interesting i will inform you. Many thanks Oleg Andrea Selva
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Oleg Kalnichevski <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
