Web connectrors [was: RE: FW: Jakarta PMC Meeting Agenda / Info]

[Marc Saegesser <ma...@apropos.com>]

Has anyone shown any interest in developing a Tomcat 4.0 connector for IIS?
If not this is actually something that I'd like to work on.  Unfortuntely,
it is going to be a month or more before I could devote a lot of time to it.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Craig R. McClanahan [mailto:Craig.McClanahan@eng.sun.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 2:00 PM
> To: tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org
> Subject: Re: FW: Jakarta PMC Meeting Agenda / Info
>
>
> GOMEZ Henri wrote:
>
> > [finally ... a technical issue!]
> >    I still didn't understand why TC 4.0 didn't select mod_jk as
> >    their connector to WebServer. The code is clean and many bugs
> >    are removed. A web server connector is not an easy piece of cake
> >    so why reinvent the whell ?-(
> >
>
> Tomcat 4.0 did not select mod_jk for several reasons.  The most
> important ones
> are at the top:
>
> * MOD_JK (like MOD_JSERV before it) has no clue what a web
>   application is.  This forces you to configure many items twice --
>   once in the web.xml file and once in the Apache configuration,
>   which is a pretty serious imposition on people trying to administer
>   the combination.
>
> * While the 2.2 spec was silent in many areas, the 2.3 spec will
>   require an Apache+Tomcat combination to obey *all* the requirements
>   of the spec (same rules as for any other container).  This means that
>   the things in web.xml *must* be respected.  For example, a security
>   constraint in a web.xml file must be enforced, even on a static resource
>   that is served by Apache instead of Tomcat.  Substantial modifications
>   to MOD_JK would be needed to make this work (primarily in adding a
>   two-way exchange of configuration information).
>
> * MOD_JK had no committers interested in maintaining it, at the time
>   that the decision was made.  Subsequent to that time, several
>   volunteers have surfaced, including at least one person interested in
>   supporting MOD_JK under Tomcat 4.0.  That would be fine with me,
>   as long as the result obeys all the rules.
>
> Craig McClanahan
>
>
>
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