Re: Multiple Identical Servlets
On 15.03.2007 18:52, Craig Taylor wrote:
On Mar 15, 12:02 pm, Robert Klemme <shortcut...@googlemail.com> wrote:
On 15.03.2007 16:50, Craig Taylor wrote:
I'm wanting to place my servlet in multiple locations under the
webapps folder so that I can be servicing more than 1 source of a
caller (each copy of the servlet will have unique configuration
parameters (config.xml file)).
Do most servlet engines support me "cp -R source newSource" and then
restarting Tomcat to pick up the newSource instance?
Will it truly be a unique instance or because of the servletUid will
it see it as the same?
It seems your approach is a bit awkward because by copying code around.
It may not even work because the class file contains the package name.
IMHO a superior approach would be to map the servlet to multiple paths
in web.xml and make the servlet pick a config file based on the path.
Kind regards
robert
That would necessitate having the config file be re-read each time the
request was made.
No, that completely depends on your code. You could load config files
on demand and store extracted data in the session / application context
or even internally - whatever is most appropriate for your app. You can
even check whether the config file has changed on disk and reread etc.
Thinking on it more, I'm thinking now wrapping the servlet into a
management servlet whose sole purpose would be to evaluate the pathing
and invoke the proper (now class, previous servlet) instance.
"class"?
I'm reasonably certain this situation has popped up before; just
wondering what the proper solution is.
I am still unsure about what exactly you mean by "this situation".
Maybe you post a bit more explanation on what the application is
supposed to do and what information is stored in those config files.
Kind regards
robert
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