Thanks for your answers. I am working on a Desktop Sharing application that is sending the Desktop Images over UDP to Tomcat. As this is quite time-critical I need to integrate the UDP-handler into my webapp. It seems like using MINA does solve my Issues.
thanks, sebastian 2009/9/13 Andre-John Mas <aj...@sympatico.ca> > > On 13-Sep-2009, at 14:19, Caldarale, Charles R wrote: > > From: Sebastian Wagner [mailto:seba.wag...@gmail.com] >>> Subject: howto add a UDP Listener >>> >>> Is there a way of telling tomcat to receive UDP Packets and forward >>> them to my Handlers? >>> >> >> No. Tomcat is a server for HTTP requests running over TCP protocol. >> You'll need to implement your own UDP handler. You might want to look over >> this thread, which sounds similar to your situation (ignore the last message >> of the thread, which is a hijack): >> http://marc.info/?t=113562169600002&r=1&w=2 >> >> You might be able to make use of this within your code: >> http://mina.apache.org/ >> > > I am just curious what problem the original poster is trying to address? > > The approach I would probably take is to make an external "proxy" > application that accepts the UDP requests and then submits the data as an > HTTP request to the web server using a GET or POST request. The advantage > with this is that it helps keep the webapp focused on HTTP and not stuff > that doesn't really fit with web server. > > André-John > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > -- Sebastian Wagner http://www.webbase-design.de http://openmeetings.googlecode.com http://www.laszlo-forum.de seba.wag...@gmail.com
