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Re: Admin Console online help ready for review

From: Kedar Mhaswade <Kedar.Mhaswade_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 12:19:31 -0700

June.Parks_at_Sun.COM wrote:
> A network listener is not exactly equivalent to an HTTP listener. It is
> a new generalized listener of which an HTTP listener is one type. It's
> kind of like changing "Land Rover" to "SUV."

Yeah it's that way, with the caveat that if you insist on getting a Land Rover,
you have to say I want an SUV with type="Land Rover" :-P

BTW, I did not know that we are changing create-virtual-server command. It can
ALWAYS take --httplisteners and internally, the configuration created is that
for a network-listener. Can someone tell me why we are changing that option
name (for one, it is not compatible).

-Kedar

>
> June
>
> On 05/04/09 09:00, Paul Davies wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I think I can answer one point:
>>> Again, please point me to the information and I'll put it in. If a
>>> network listener is the same as an HTTP listener, I can copy that
>>> info, but I need some assurance that that is the case, such as a spec
>>> or other source.
>>
>> According to GlassFish Issue 8147
>> <https://glassfish.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=8147>, the
>> --httplisteners option of the create-virtual-server command is now
>> --networklisteners, which suggests that a network listener might be
>> the same as an HTTP listener.
>>
>> Regards,
>> --
>> Paul Davies, Senior Technical Writer, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
>> http://blogs.sun.com/techscribe/
>