I believe tha confusion here is in the use of the word "application". In servlet-ese, an application is a group of servlets sharing a common context.
--- Milt Epstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, bin cai wrote: > > > Hi, > > I have one web-based application in my computer which > > is developed using servlet, mysql. It can be invoked > > by Http://mycomputerip:8080/dir/servlet calss. now i > > want to develope another application using servlet > > too.These two application share same mysql and web > > server. I am wondering if it is safe i still use port > > number 8080 for my second applicaition. I am not sure > > if two application use same port number for web server > > and mysql server? > > Any help will be appreciated very much > > Thanks in advance > > Well, I don't believe you can have multiple applications/programs > listening on one port. But when you use servlets, you don't write > applications that listen directly to a port. That is the job of the > web server, and based on the request it sees on that part, it will > decide what to do with it, which may involve passing it on to > (eventually) some particular web application/servlet. And you can > very well develop some new web application/servlet, and by putting > appropriate directives in the appropriate configuration file(s), have > the web server pass appropriate requests to it (you can see how > important being appropriate is). > > Milt Epstein > Research Programmer > Integration and Software Engineering (ISE) > Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services (CITES) > University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body > of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". > > Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html > Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html > LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html > ===== Mark Zawadzki Performance Engineer/DBA/Programmer extraordinaire’ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning" Robert Cringle (columnist, author, host of "Triumph of the Nerds") __________________________________________________ Yahoo! - We Remember 9-11: A tribute to the more than 3,000 lives lost http://dir.remember.yahoo.com/tribute ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
