Jeanfrancois Arcand wrote:
> Salut,
>
> For GlassFish[1], it will work at the virtual-server and web-module
> level (only the Engine level is not supported...but if you really needs
> it, I can certainly look how to do it).
>
Hi Jeanfrancois,
I had a look at your blog posting but I nevertheless wonder how to pass
values to the Valves setter methods.
Well I guess you do /not/ want to change the domains.xml-DTD but /I/
think s.th. along the lines of the following would be nice:
<virtual-server hosts="${com.sun.aas.hostName}" ...>
<property name="docroot" value="${com.sun.aas.instanceRoot}/docroot"/>
<!-- ... more properties for virtual-server -->
<valve name="someValve" classname="x.y.z.ExpiresHeaderValve">
<property name="contentTypes" value="text/plain,text/css" />
<property name="addOnYears" value="1" />
<!-- ... more properties for valve -->
</valve>
</virtual-server>
And of course for web-modules as well.
And corresponding asadmin-commands like
asadmin create-valve --class xyz --parent-type virtual-server
--parent-id server --target server somevalve
(where in the case of a web-module the id would actually be a name) and
asadmin set
server.http-service.virtual-server.somevalve.property.contentType=text/html,text/css
for setting the properties of the valve.
In general: If there is one thing I think that is not that nice in GF
than it is that it's not as easily configurable. Take the access-logger
for example. If I am not mistaken it is not possible to use different
strategies (e.g. for rolling files) for different virtual servers. No
bummer but not that nice either.
>>
>> Considering this I think using a Valve would be more fine-grained than
>> the default-web.xml while still coarser than a filter for each web-app.
>>
>>
>> But I will give it some more thoughts.
>
> Let us know which solution you picked :-)
>
I still would like to go down the Valve route but right now I think it
might not be so good an idea with GF. Though of course I hope you can
prove me wrong ;-)
Regards,
Wolfram Rittmeyer
> A+
>
> -- Jeanfrancois
>
> [1]
> http://weblogs.java.net/blog/jfarcand/archive/2006/09/extending_glass.html
>