> I'm checking the feasibility of building a 'message server' based on
> Tomcat that will receive messages (xml or other format) from clients,
> route them to a backend system and send the response.
>
> 1. There maybe situations that the application response to the http
> request should be sent to a different url or maybe even using non http
> protocol (asynchronous mode). How should I handle this case
> so that the
> client will receive an immediate response and disconnect while the
> thread continues to process the request?
> 2. I will also accept request from MQ and other non http channels. Is
> there a way to enjoy Tomact services like thread pooling for those
> requests? Should I package them in http and resend to the web server?
If I am following you correctly a RequestInterceptor could be used for this.
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Michael Wentzel
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