Dear Tomcat users/dev team, I am working on porting an enterprise application from Tomcat 4.x to Tomcat 8.5.x.
Probably you can throw some light on the problem I am facing. The application that I am porting has a custom protocol(inheriting HTTP11NIOProtocol) and custom endpoint(inheriting NIOEndpoint) written, in order to provide a 'multi-protocol' implementation(BEEP + HTTP) on a unified port. To this end, the custom endpoint is overriding some functionality from NIOEndpoint class, particularly a custom selector and a custom poller. In Tomcat 4.x, the application was overriding the fields 'selector','poller' & 'nioChannels', which were 'protected' and these were made private in Tomcat 7.x.(I guess), rendering any custom connector unable to access/set such fields, to override functionality. Commit: https://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1425512 >From a quick web search, I found a relevant discussion that says that Tomcat >connector architecture is HTTP-centric >(http://grokbase.com/t/tomcat/users/116xpzc2pz/how-to-create-custom-tomcat-6-connector-to-do-port-sharing) Is there any recommendation from the Tomcat team for writing custom connectors in 8.5.x. Is it true that Tomcat doesn't encourage non-HTTP connectors/endpoints (seeing the private fields in NIOEndpoint class). Thanks in advance for your support. Regards, Anurag.
