Http Facility progress report

[Niclas Hedhman <ni...@hedhman.org>]

Gang,

I have now componentized the relevant parts of Jetty, except for the 
ServletHandler and WebAppHandler.

That means that it is now possible to assemble practically any type of Jetty 
server, including all the various configuration parameters/attributes that 
exist.

I have also done the ModelHandler, which is Jetty HttpHandler that can 'mount' 
an Avalon component (implementing o.a.a.http.HttpRequestHandler interface) to 
a context-path in the HttpContext.
There is no automagic traverse of the composition model to find all the 
components that implement the said interface. Each have to be explicitly 
declared as a ModelHandler parameter.
Ex;

  <component name="context"
             class="org.apache.avalon.http.impl.HttpContextImpl" >
    <configuration>
      <context-path>/niclas/testing</context-path>
    </configuration>
  </component>

  <component name="model-handler-primary"    
             class="org.apache.avalon.http.impl.ModelHandler" 
  >
    <parameters>
      <parameter name="context-path" value="/primary" />
      <parameter name="target" value="/http/primary" />
    </parameters>
  </component>


Here, the HttpContext is mounted at /niclas/testing, and under that the 
/http/primary component is mounted to the /primary context-path. I.e. the 
handle() method in the TestComponent is called for 
http://localhost:8088/niclas/testing/primary

If you want to try this, update the latest Avalon source from subversion. 
Build it all,
 ant setup
 ant clean
 ant
 cd planet/facilities/http
 merlin impl/src/etc/default-server.xml

(provided you have set up Merlin to run)
Then request http://localhost:8088/niclas/testing/primary from your browser.


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This is still fairly early in the game, but progress is good. I will tackle 
documentation ASAP, which will be quite extensive since there are endless 
amounts of Jetty configuration available, some is not too well documented by 
them.

The Road Map ahead is;

  *  Authentication/UserRealm support.
  *  Support for standard Servlets.
  *  Support for JSPs.
  *  Support for WebApps.
  *  Support for template engines, like Tapestry and Velocity.
  *  Support for Struts.

("support" above means explicit code that is easy to enable without coding.)


Any help is greatly appreciated.


Cheers
Niclas

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Re: Http Facility progress report

[Niclas Hedhman <ni...@hedhman.org>]

On Monday 26 July 2004 22:36, Niclas Hedhman wrote:

I forgot to mention;

> The Road Map ahead is;

  *  Support for the SSL listener
  *  Support for the Ajp listener
  *  Support for the experimental NIO listener

Cheers
Niclas
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