Hi All, Please refer to https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=49234 for a longer description about the descriptor issue in above package. The main issue is the descriptor for Connector MBean tries to describe different connectors with same set of attributes. So some attributes in the descriptor doesn't make sense in one connector or the other (Http and Ajp). Connector differences arise from attributes of ProtocolHandler class associated with the connector and not the connector class it self.
Currently there are seperate MBeans describing different protocol handler attributes as well. This is in addition to some of their attributes being partially exposed via associated Connector MBean. As far as I understood following are the possibilities for improvements. 1. Remove descriptions of ProtocolHandler attributes from Connector MBeans since they are described in related ProtocolHandler MBeans as well. We can have a attribute reference to the ProtocolHandler objectname in the Connector MBean to associate ProtocolHandler to the Connector so that they can be retrieved by going through Connnector. 2. Extract out common attributes in both ProtocolHandlers and include them in Connector MBean attributes. This way it can expose some ProtocolHandler attributes directly while refering to the associated ProtocolHandler MBean for other attributes. Having seperate MBeans for Connector according to different protocol handler implementations is not currently feasible since the Connector class type doesn't change for both implementations. So we are unable to have two different MBeans to describe objects from same class. This happens because of the fact that differences arise not due to attributes in base Connector object but associated ProtocolHandler implementation. Any suggestions are appreciated. Regards, Chamith
