Well, JK/JK2 are their own protocols, and the CoyoteConnector class handles
them just fine.  It even can handle SSL.  Perhaps you could take a look at
org.apache.coyote.tomcat4.CoyoteConnector and see if it will help you get a
jump start on your own code.

John


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yves Duhem [mailto:yves.duhem@;cryptolog.com]
> Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 4:03 AM
> To: Tomcat Users List
> Subject: Re: non Http connector
> 
> 
> Thanks for your answer,
> in fact I don't want to use http at all and I was wondering if it was
> possible with tomcat.
> I already have my own protocol, and since the communication will be 
> wrapped in ssl I don't need http. The only feature from http that I 
> might need is multiplexing. So I was wondering if the connector 
> architecture of tomcat allowed (without too much trouble) to 
> use another 
> protocol.
> But it's true that using http is not a big problem and I'll 
> probably end 
> up doing that.
> yves
> 
> Milt Epstein wrote:
> > On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Yves Duhem wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>Hi,
> >>I would like to use servlets and tomcat without having to 
> communicate
> >>via http.
> >>my request's first line would indicate in some way the 
> target servlet
> >>and the rest would be the data to transmit to the servlet
> >>the response would be only the data (no headers).
> >>(and all this would be used with SSL.)
> >>
> >>I would like to know if a connector behaving like this 
> exists somewhere,
> >>or if i'll have to modify one of the existing connectors 
> (and in that
> >>case is there any developer documentation about the 
> connector framework?).
> > 
> > 
> > Are you saying that you really don't want to use HTTP (as a 
> protocol),
> > or just that you want to do this outside the context of a 
> web browser?
> > Because in the current HTTP framework there's nothing 
> that's stopping
> > you from using it outside of a web browser.  You can, for 
> example, set
> > up a java application that opens a URLConnection to a Tomcat server.
> > You can even transfer objects this way (to a certain degree) instead
> > of just parameters, because you'll have direct control of
> > reading/writing the I/O streams.
> > 
> > I'm not really sure what not using HTTP buys you, because 
> then you're
> > essentially creating your own client/server system and defining your
> > own protocol, and you have to set everything up.  If you 
> use HTTP, you
> > get a lot essentially "for free" (including parameter passing,
> > sessions, cookies, ssl, etc.)
> > 
> > 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]
> > 
> > 
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