-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Mark,
On 5/26/17 7:46 AM, Mark Thomas wrote: > 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. That's where I was going. I figured that removing AjpApr would meet less resistance, so I decided to start there. > 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. Unless OpenSSL starts providing a JNI binding, we'll always have to have a wrapper for it. Hopefully, the OpenSSL group doesn't start producing *more* code, as most of their problems seem to stem from writing WAY too much code. > 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 for removal of the APR/native *Connector* - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJZLbOXAAoJEBzwKT+lPKRYqU4P/jCkBsi4nAejgaV7Tc+lvBoz O1u/96dR6fxPOZe/FAv4dnS4rHxueLJfQ7d2334tgo0dK20pA4ZqVHTcjYJNYDwA yrQkKgMhxc9rPDvy0LMVmEF5jYMgu85ntKv1vEcX3IgOGUterzAxgkUl8ErE3DYT xYLfZcqI71QdcUc9c/5ke4Z+Ls8R++C28HBnyiQoEOUA+/eBjPfFI+twLbAvv/7F RTHA5Aer/ocpTGJvqz0iNuiAL8+7spk/Nf3MnfjPlZV4U+pa9R5wXQphp/fITccD A8qmYDGTkTpptG3s2DmErS8OO9OtHwPbKrKiZtZP646ifxVYYdUkq9diUb2Ww4cC sPvPTS1dhTQCvftxvPi8ZcjqmQWYUK7d0b/1GZCshrjZPl/EJAO2miTAtvoSH/Gl m/GNpFOuir5F1K3ShaM3dq+0CkQrcVI3O5ioHDLZXAW1g1fTpw8n/OoGWFq5bTuw kiVRP7qZHlLrPiNVUf8JTiSsHhcTtkUTM7gqjBwb4q3F87WjczMokbuQewfR0e/2 Zg7McoSXqiW6uN5aOkzpYB/g7WWYjZNrprELwQJjAXkfkmjKdKU0wQvqun+6lYCQ BkFcBaN0nDMoQkkc24wuvOXRM0ipd5pePRpPwqIFUz6wRbclSka2RnhL9VslxCI0 xNnd72vUg7oUh7G7Halr =KAyk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org
