FYI.
This connector should works with GlassFish v2 as well :-)
-- Jeanfrancois
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Subject: [Announce] Enhanced ISAPI Redirector + Tomcat Connector Binaries
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 14:20:48 +1300 (NZDT)
From: Tim Whittington <tim.whittington_at_orionhealth.com>
Reply-To: Tomcat Users List <users_at_tomcat.apache.org>
To: users_at_tomcat.apache.org, dev_at_tomcat.apache.org
Hi all
We've been using Tomcat and Tomcat Connectors in our company products for
almost 10 years now, and it's a very important part of our technology stack.
Over those years we've contributed some enhancements and fixes to the IIS
connector/ISAPI Redirector, and most of these have been accepted back into
the trunk.
There's one in particular that we feel is very useful that hasn't been
accepted though, which is the addition of chunked encoding support to the
ISAPI Redirector, which allows IIS to use HTTP keep alives between the
browser and IIS - we've found this has major scalability benefits on high
transaction volume sites.
<
http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=35297>
http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=35297 tracks the proposed
patch for this, but it's been waiting for 2+ years for a 1.3 development
branch to open to make it available to the wider community.
We feel this is an important enough feature for us to maintain internally
and use in many production sites over the years, and we think other people
will find it useful, so we've now taken the step of making it available to
the community at large in source + binary form on SourceForge. Our patches
are all APLv2, as per the Tomcat source, and are available in the
SourceForge SVN repo.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/timsjk/ is the SF site.
We've also taken the opportunity to make available the compiled binaries we
produce in-house for many platforms (we support a large number), and I hope
this is of use to the community at large. You'll find binaries for Apache
2.0, 2.0-prefork, 2.2, 2.2-prefork and IIS 5/6 on AIX PPC64, HP-UX
PA-RISC2,
HP-UX IA64, Linux-x86, Linux-x64,
Windows x86 and Window x64 (with some obvious exceptions) available from
the
SourceForge project download page. We've provided builds of our enhanced
ISAPI redirector as well as an unpatched ISAPI redirector.
This isn't a fork of Tomcat Connectors - the work the Tomcat devs are doing
on Tomcat Connectors in recent times, in particular Rainer and Mladen, is
great, and we continue to value, use and support it - apart from the IIS
connector we use unpatched mod_jk connectors everywhere. If/when the 1.3
development branch opens and the chunked encoding support is added to the
main trunk we'll wind up our patches and see if there's a better way to
distribute the binaries.
If you're going to try out or use the enhanced ISAPI redirector, please be
responsible when reporting bugs and test against the unpatched version
before logging them against Tomcat. If they turn out to be due to our
patches, then report them on the SF project.
cheers
tim