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Re: Package regression with ProxyHandler interface

From: <June.Parks_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:03:38 -0700

The Grizzly team told me that the proxy-related properties of
http-listener/http-service to which you refer are not supported in the
v3 network-service.

June

On 07/01/09 11:52, Jan Luehe wrote:
> I'm trying to fix a package regression of an exposed interface.
>
> Earlier versions of GlassFish started exposing the
> com.sun.appserv.ProxyHandler interface, which is useful for when
> GlassFish is front-ended by an SSL-offloading load-balancer. Its
> default implementation (which works with Sun's load-balancer plug-in) is
> given by com.sun.enterprise.web.ProxyHandlerImpl, and alternative
> implementations may be specified (as http-listener/http-service
> properties, using their FQCN) in domain.xml.
>
> Since this has been an exposed interface, it must be preserved for
> backward compatibility reasons.
>
> In GlassFish v3, the ProxyHandler interface was moved from
> "com.sun.appserv" to "com.sun.appserv.security.provider".
>
> It needs to be moved back to its original package. In order to avoid any
> split-packages, that would mean moving ProxyHandler.java to
>
> common/common-util/src/main/java/com/sun/appserv
>
> which already contains BytecodePreprocessor.java and ClassLoaderUtil.java
> and therefore "owns" the com.sun.appserv package.
>
> ProxyHandler.java imports javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest, so if we
> moved it to "common/common-util", then we would also have to move
> "web/javax.servlet" to "javaee-api/javax.servlet", since "common"
> builds after
> "javaee-api", and to avoid any circular dependencies between "common"
> and "web".
>
> Does anybody see any issues with moving "web/javax.servlet" to
> "javaee-api/javax.servlet"?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jan
>
>
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