Documentation

[Yann Duponchel <yd...@zurich.ibm.com>]

Hello,
I would like to use Tomcat as a Servlet container for non HttpServlets. 
I don't see any problem in doing so but I would like to write a 
specialized Manager, specialized Containers, specialized Connectors and 
maybe other custom components (Valves).  I have been through all the 
documentation I could find:
- proposal.html
- catalina-analysis3_raster.gif
- catalina-analysis1_raster.gif
- catalina-analysis2_raster.gif
but I was wondering if there is a more detailed and up-to-date 
documentation. In particular, the "proposal" and Javadoc mention that 
configuration is done using a "configure" method, but looking at the 
source, it seems to indicate that Digesters are used for this purpose 
and the sequence of initialzation defined in the various Rules is rather 
obscur.

So I would be glad if someone could point me to some additional 
documentation, in particular concerning the details of the Tomcat 
architecture (relations between components, functions, implementation, 
invokation sequence, when and how is invoked the SessionManager, ...).

Thank you,

Yann.


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Re: Documentation

[Remy Maucherat <re...@apache.org>]

Yann Duponchel wrote:
> Hello,
> I would like to use Tomcat as a Servlet container for non HttpServlets. 
> I don't see any problem in doing so but I would like to write a 
> specialized Manager, specialized Containers, specialized Connectors and 
> maybe other custom components (Valves).  I have been through all the 
> documentation I could find:
> - proposal.html
> - catalina-analysis3_raster.gif
> - catalina-analysis1_raster.gif
> - catalina-analysis2_raster.gif
> but I was wondering if there is a more detailed and up-to-date 
> documentation. In particular, the "proposal" and Javadoc mention that 
> configuration is done using a "configure" method, but looking at the 
> source, it seems to indicate that Digesters are used for this purpose 
> and the sequence of initialzation defined in the various Rules is rather 
> obscur.
> 
> So I would be glad if someone could point me to some additional 
> documentation, in particular concerning the details of the Tomcat 
> architecture (relations between components, functions, implementation, 
> invokation sequence, when and how is invoked the SessionManager, ...).

I'm afraid there's only the the documentation bundle distributed with 
Tomcat. In particular, the event system is only documented in the 
javadocs (I recommend browsing the org.apache.catalina package).

Hopefully, that will be enough to get you started ...

Remy


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