Tomcat and Naming

[Zhenxin wang <zh...@docomolabs-usa.com>]

What is the role of Naming (org.apache.naming packeage) in Tomcat?
Is it an essential part of Tomcat? Can the servlet container work without it?
If it can be taken off, what I have to sacrifice.

Thanks!

--Zhenxin Wang
DoCoMo Labs USA

Re: Tomcat and Naming

["Craig R. McClanahan" <cr...@apache.org>]

On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Zhenxin wang wrote:

> Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 12:11:25 -0700
> From: Zhenxin wang <zh...@docomolabs-usa.com>
> Reply-To: Tomcat Developers List <to...@jakarta.apache.org>
> To: Tomcat Developers List <to...@jakarta.apache.org>
> Subject: Tomcat and Naming
>
> What is the role of Naming (org.apache.naming packeage) in Tomcat?

It is used for two things:

* To provide the JNDI naming context to web applications (per the
  J2EE platform spec requirements).  This enables all the stuff
  described in the jndi-resources-howto.html page of the Tomcat docs.

* To represent the static resources of a web application so that
  static file serving (for Tomcat standalone) and servlet API calls
  like ServletContext.getResource() and getResourceAsStream()
  will work.

> Is it an essential part of Tomcat?

Yes (for the standard implementation in org.apache.catalina.core).  This
is primarily in terms of the second usage listed above -- the first one is
pretty separable.

> Can the servlet container work without it?

No (for the standard implementation in org.apache.catalina.core).

> If it can be taken off, what I have to sacrifice.
>

I suspect that this is one of the places that MinTC did things
differently, because it probably implemented its own version of the
Catalina components.

> Thanks!
>
> --Zhenxin Wang
> DoCoMo Labs USA
>

Craig



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