Hi, 2017-05-26 14:46 GMT+03:00 Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org>: > > On 25/05/17 18:04, Christopher Schultz wrote: > > All, > > > > At ApacheCon, a few of us were talking about things that could be > > removed in upcoming versions of Tomcat. The issue of connectors came up, > > and I was thinking that there doesn't seem to be a reason to have an > > AjpApr connector any more. > > > > The APR flavor of the AJP connector was only useful when BIO was the > > only IO strategy available, but now NIO has been available for some > > time. APR really only gives a benefit when used with OpenSSL for TLS, > > and since AJP doesn't use crypto, I think it's no longer necessary. > > > > I think we could even remove it as of Tomcat 9 if we want. > > > > What do others think? > > It is only 8 lines of code. It is probably simpler just to keep it than > to take the time to document why that particular combination is no > longer available. > > However, if you expand the proposal to removing the HTTP APR/native > connector as well then that gets a lot more interesting. > > Now we have NIO/NIO2 + OpenSSL there is much less of a requirement for > APR/native. > > On the plus side, it is probably (mariginally?) faster in some scenarios. > > On the down side, it is less stable (we still get the odd crash report) > and it is ~1200 lines of code. > > Dropping the APR/native connectors also opens up the possibility of a > significantly trimmed down native library - or possibly even going > directly to OpenSSL. > > It feels a bit late to do this for 9.0.x although we code if we wanted > to. It is more of an option for 10.0.x. > > My current thinking is that we should drop APR/native for 10.0.x. What > do others think?
+1 Regards, Violeta > Mark > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org >
