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Re: HTTP Listeners and Virtual Servers

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Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:38:53 PST

> Jeanfrancois is referring to the limitation mentioned
> at
> http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?trange=15&thread
> ID=492628&forumID=136&tstart=0
> ("Help with J2EE SDK 1.4 Virtual Servers please!"),
> which, at the time, i summarized as follows:
>
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> In our current implementation, the lists of
> http-listeners associated with virtual-server
> elements must be mutually exclusive, because the
> primary differentiator for a virtual-server are the
> unique port numbers associated with it.
>
> Internally, we represent each virtual-server as a
> Tomcat "Engine", and associate Tomcat HTTP connectors
> corresponding to the virtual-server's http-listeners
> with it.
>
> If you associate the same http-listener with more
> than one virtual-server, we create two Tomcat HTTP
> connectors (one for each Tomcat "Engine") that try to
> listen on the same port. When you start the
> appserver, the first Tomcat HTTP connector will start
> just fine, but the second will fail to start and
> raise a java.net.BindException ("Address already in
> use").
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>
> Notice that this limitation applied to AS 8.0, and
> was fixed in AS 8.1 and all later releases.


So, if we use SJSAS 8.2 then we have not this limitation? I'm right?
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