Greetings! As I have read the J2EE specifications I have found out that Web Applications should only consist of static web content, jsps, servlets and such, but is there any point to wrap my Java server application into a servlet that starts up the server, maybe monitors its state, shuts it down when needed etc.? I have tried this sort of a approach and built a simple servlet that launches my server in its init() method. It seems to work just fine, it can connect to database and it can sit down and wait for client calls through a specific socket. But, if I put that server servlet under the same Tomcat instance that serves my client servlets those servlet apps seems not to be started at all..(server waiting for client calls through a socket blocks the whole thing?). I put my server servlet under a different Tomcat instance than client servlet apps and after that "everything" seems to work just fine except that I keep getting some strange behaviour with my client servlets - e.g. when trying to log in to the system using my logger servlet it tells that a specific user id is invalid even though it is not and it worked with the original system...
Has anyone done any similar work - wrapping server applications into servlets? Is there some documents in the web on this topic? Any opinions? One more thing; my client applets use JDK1.1 due to browser issues and they communicate with my server using serialized "message" objects. Is it right that if I build those serialized objects with JDK1.2/1.3/1.4 they will not work in applets - the serialization/deserialization mechanism is different? It seems that even if I run my server servlet under Tomcat 4.0.1 with JDK1.3.1 the client applets can handle the serialized messages coming from the server - both objects created at runtime and objects read from files (files are written using JDK1.1 and includes one big serialized object each). This is not really any Tomcat issue but a Java core issue but I was just wondering whether I can use Tomcat 4.0.1 and Java2 or should I take an older Tomcat that works with JDK1.1. I thank thee for any advice thy can give on these topics. Teemu Hiltunen -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
