Question about Tomcat Futures: usage of javax.net.* ?

[Arieh Markel <Ar...@Central.Sun.COM>]

Based on my current investigation of trying to enable SSL on Jakarta/Tomcat
I am facing a couple of issues when trying to adapt the work that has
been done on the Simple Tcp and Pooled Tcp connectors to deal with SSL.

One of the things I realize is the apparent overlap between what the
org.apache.tomcat.net.ServerSocketFactory class defines and what the
javax.net.ServerSocketFactory class defines.

The current SSL classes provided by Sun with jsse1.0.1, rely on the javax.net.* 
hierarchy.

I am wondering if it is in the plans to make the classes in
org.apache.tomcat.net.* extend/implement those on javax.net.*.

This would allow to extend or simply manipulate the SimpleTcp and PoolTcp
classes to use SSLServerSocketFactory (which extend 
javax.net.ServerSocketFactory) objects with no modifications.

Any ideas ? Comments ?


Arieh
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Re: Question about Tomcat Futures: usage of javax.net.* ?

[co...@costin.dnt.ro]

> Based on my current investigation of trying to enable SSL on Jakarta/Tomcat
> I am facing a couple of issues when trying to adapt the work that has
> been done on the Simple Tcp and Pooled Tcp connectors to deal with SSL.

> One of the things I realize is the apparent overlap between what the
> org.apache.tomcat.net.ServerSocketFactory class defines and what the
> javax.net.ServerSocketFactory class defines.

A simple workaround is to create an adapter - implement
tomcat.net.ServlerSocketFactory and call java.net.* inside ( to create the
SSL socket). Everything should work. 

I would be happy to have tomcat.net replaced with javax.net - but it will
introduce yet another dependency, and I'm not sure javax.net is easily
redistributable.  

> This would allow to extend or simply manipulate the SimpleTcp and PoolTcp
> classes to use SSLServerSocketFactory (which extend 
> javax.net.ServerSocketFactory) objects with no modifications.

Just use tomcat.net.SSLServerSocketFactory extends
tomcat.net.ServlerSocketFactory, and inside delegate every method to 
javax.net.SSLServerSocketFactory.

Costin