On Wed, 4 Sep 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi John, I was reading your post and it seems very interesting, I'm > a newbie with these tomcat stuff... > > I read a lot of emails in the past about the connectors, but what I > don't understand is what is the function of these connectors... I > know that Apache and Tomcat use these connectors for integrating jsp > technology under apache... that's ok, but what happens internally > with Apache and Tomcat when I use these connectors???... > > The webserver that comes with tomcat, what happens with > it?????.... is it still working????... [ ... ]
Well, taken from: http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.0-doc/config/ connectors "represent the interface between external clients sending requests to (and receiving responses from) a particular Service". You can look there for more on what a "Service" is, but basically it refers to tomcat running in standalone mode, where the clients are web browsers, and tomcat running integrated with a web server, where the client is the web server. So you have connectors that "speak" HTTP to talk to web browsers, and connectors that "speak" AJP/WARP to talk to web servers (like apache). (So connectors are not just for integrating tomcat with a web server.) As to the web server that comes with tomcat, if you enable an HTTP connector (in tomcat's server.xml file) it will work just fine. Milt Epstein Research Programmer Systems and Technology Services (STS) Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services (CITES) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
