Re: Configuration

[Alexey Parshin <alexeyp@gmail.com>]

XML parser is included into SPTK..

On 4/23/05, Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh <ilya@total-knowledge.com> wrote:
> Nah.. CPPSERV doesn't claim to support "standards", it claims to have
> API losely based on that of J2EE Servlet API ;-)
> This means we can (and probably will) invent config format of our own.
> In fact XML parser is the last thing I want to
> hook up to this engine - it will automatically add dependancy on libs
> that are at least ~1.5 M in size. Not something I
> want to have in embedded device.
> 
> BTW, what do you mean by defining error pages? Isn't that done by
> Apache? (ErrorDocument in .htaccess or apache.conf)
> 
> So, config-wise - we have session timeouts, "application definitions" -
> i.e. set of related servlets sharing ServletContext and
> session name. I guess adding per-servlet parameters should be reasonable
> (think multiple instances of same servlet
> hooked to different databases, etc).
> 
> Anything else?
> 
> Thibaut Colar wrote:
> 
> > Besides servlets definitions ?
> > not: much, most common i define is error pages (404)
> > and also very useful is session timeout.
> > Have rarely used anything else, i f any.
> >
> > I'm not a big fan of the web.xml myself.
> > 1) it's xml ... so you know :-)
> > 2) it needs both the definitions, and then the mapping, and on most
> > java containers it needs all the definitions first, followed by all
> > the mappings, so it's annoying to edit (2 places).  But i guess it's
> > an implementation issue so you don't have to make yours stupid like
> > this :-)
> >
> > But, i guess you gotta make the web.xml regardless cause it's "standard"
> >
> > Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh wrote:
> >
> >> I'm thinking about configuration of servlets right now.
> >> Ideas on what exactly should be configurable?
> >> Should I perhaps use web.xml config format?
> >> Question to those who program a lot of servlets:
> >> What things have you ever actually configured in real life?
> >>
> >> All ideas are welcome.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> 
> --
> Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh
> Total Knowledge. CTO
> http://www.total-knowledge.com
> 
> 


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Alexey Parshin,

Senior DBA,
Tactical Telesolutions,
San Francisco