On Sunday 01 July 2001 01:05 pm, you wrote:
> Hi,
> all the literature i have just deals with HttpServlets and stuff, and
> anyway: its not much literature.
>
> could someone give me a nice example how to write a web.xml in which i
> can use my generic servlet which uses my own protocol?
>
> tia,
>
> nick
web.xml is a standard file used by all servlet-powered systems. You can find
the spec for it at the sun web site, where the servlet specification is
housed:
http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/download.html
(Available in many formats)
Now, although your message was a bit ambiguous, if you use servlets, you must
adhere to HTTP protocol specifications.
You can still process the HTTP message using the service rather than doGet or
doPost calls if you wanna get closer to the implementation. It is still HTTP
though.
If you want another port, set it up in the tomcat or apache port listener.
Servlets can run on any port. They are bound to their environment's ports,
through the web server instance.
You can enclose any data you wish in the transaction, but the proper HTTP
headers and the like must be used by your protocol. If it does not use HTTP,
then I suggest you write a socket server (in Java it's cake) and use your own
protocol. You'll have to do a lot to get load balancing, etc., so you might
wanna consider just enabling it in HTTP.
--
. . . tizzy
L'enfers, c'est les autres.
--Jean Paul Sartre, Huit Clos
