On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Zhenxin wang wrote:
> Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 12:11:25 -0700
> From: Zhenxin wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: Tomcat Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Tomcat Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Tomcat and Naming
>
> What is the role of Naming (org.apache.naming packeage) in Tomcat?
It is used for two things:
* To provide the JNDI naming context to web applications (per the
J2EE platform spec requirements). This enables all the stuff
described in the jndi-resources-howto.html page of the Tomcat docs.
* To represent the static resources of a web application so that
static file serving (for Tomcat standalone) and servlet API calls
like ServletContext.getResource() and getResourceAsStream()
will work.
> Is it an essential part of Tomcat?
Yes (for the standard implementation in org.apache.catalina.core). This
is primarily in terms of the second usage listed above -- the first one is
pretty separable.
> Can the servlet container work without it?
No (for the standard implementation in org.apache.catalina.core).
> If it can be taken off, what I have to sacrifice.
>
I suspect that this is one of the places that MinTC did things
differently, because it probably implemented its own version of the
Catalina components.
> Thanks!
>
> --Zhenxin Wang
> DoCoMo Labs USA
>
Craig
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