"Johnny Kewl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Please bear with me while I study and learn Tomcats src code... > >My environment is a little different to the ant build, in that I am running >the source directly from the netbeans IDE. It >works by the way and once >I've figured it all out, I'll post the project to a site so others can do >it too. The biggest >difference is that tomcat becomes one jar file... with >just a few associated lib files like ant.jar > >The other thing is that the mode of operation I'm working with, is not the >typical embedded environment... its still XML >config environment, with >conf and webapps in the same folder as the jar file.... it seems to work >perfectly. > >OK... questions... lots of em... guessing is allowed ;) > >=BOOTSTRAP= >Bootstrap seems to classload files in the SERVER folder (old tomcat 5.5 >style) and then it calls into "Catalina" which >does the digest XML stuff >and this in turn calls into Embedded. Other than for legacy support, does >this mean >Bootstrap is redundant? If I bypass Bootstrap and call (start) >directly into Catalina... it seems to work perfectly... but >I'm just >wondering if theres a surprize somewhere if one bypasses that server class >loader. >
The main point of Bootstrap is to minimize what is on the System classpath (which caused no end of problems in TC 3.2.x). It also allows you to configure your classloaders in 5.5 style if you want. If all of the TC jars are in the System classpath, it doesn't matter if you use it or not. >=Start Stop Mechanism= >I see that START goes into a wait loop... and it will pop out of this when >STOP is called. I understand how this works >from a single program >(process), but I cant understand how this works from start and stop bat >files... or in two calls >from 2 separate processes. To me that will launch >an instance and start it... and launch a separate instance and stop >it... >never shall the 2 meet??? How does that work? > Already answered, but yes, it is via a socket connection (at least for the script launching). Lauching via jsvc does this differently (directly calling the stop method on the running TC). >=EJB and Annotations= >I see stuff like javax.ejb and javax.annotation in the source.... what is >that stuff for? > This is for Annotation and Resource Injection (@see section 14.5 of the 2.5 Servlet spec), and is the main reason that TC 6.x requires Java 5. >=org.apache.tomcat.util.net.puretls.... seems broken= >To make this thing work... one ends up with external libs... like cryptix, >puretls... its a mission! Can I remove this... is it >experimental?? > You can remove it. If the PureTLS jars aren't arround when you compile, TC quitely removes it from the build. It is an alternative to JSSE for people that want it, but if the PureTLS jars aren't there, it just sits quitely in it jar. >=org.eclipse.jdt.core_3.2.3.v_686_R32x.jar= >Why? Is this for compiling? What does Tomcat compile at runtime? Why is >this lib needed? > This is used for compiling JSP pages to classes (at least in the default configuration). This is useful for development work, but you would usually precompile the pages for production. >Thanks in advance.... hopefully one day I'll be able to contribute. > >________________________________________________________________ > >Johnny Kewl > eMail: John<No Spam>kewlstuff.co.za -- replace <No Spam> with @ -- > Cell: +027-72- 473-9331 >Java Developer (Tomcat Aficionado) > Free Tomcat software at http://coolese.100free.com/ >________________________________________________________________ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
