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4.6. Containers
Containers represent components, which process incoming requests (
<Engine>, <Host>, and <Context>).
4.6.1. Engine
The Engine represents the entity that processes the requests received by the parent Service; that is, the engine accepts requests from all Connectors defined for the Service, processes them, and returns them to the appropriate Connector.
To define the virtual host of the server that the engine can use, nest multiple
Host elements inside the Engine element; each Host element represents one virtual host. You need to define at least one Host element and one of the Hosts must have a name that matches the defaultHost value defined in the parent Engine element.
The
Engine element can contain at most one Realm element. The Realm element represents a database of users and their roles: the user information defined in the respective resource is shared across all Hosts and Contexts nested inside the Engine. Realm setting in the Engine element can be overridden by another Realm element defined in a lower-level element; that is, a Host or Context element.
Table 4.5. Engine Element Attributes
| Attribute | Description |
|---|---|
| backgroundProcessorDelay |
delay between the invocation of the
backgroundProcess method on the engine and the invocation of the backgroundProcess method on the child containers of the Engine (Engine's Hosts and Contexts; 10 by default, that is 10 seconds)
If set to a positive value, the engine produces a thread. The thread waits for the specified amount of time and then invokes the
backgroundProcess method on the engine and all its child containers.
Host and Context containers can also define the backgroundProcessorDelay attribute. If the delay of a child container is not negative, the child container is using its own processing thread.
|
| className |
class implementing the Engine
The class must implement the org.apache.catalina.Engine interface. If not specified, the standard value
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine is used.
|
| defaultHost |
name of the default host name
The default Host processes requests directed to host names on the server that are not configured in the
server.xml configuration file. The defaultHost must match the name attribute of a Host element nested immediately inside the Engine element.
|
| jvmRoute |
identifier used in load balancing scenarios to enable session affinity (so-called "sticky sessions")
The identifier must be unique across all JBoss Web servers which participate in the cluster. It is appended to the generated session identifier so that a front-end proxy can always forward a particular session to the same JBoss Web instance.
|
| name |
logical name of the Engine used in log and error messages
When using multiple Service elements in the same Server, each Engine must be assigned a unique name.
|
Note
Make sure the Engine element is located after all its connectors as connectors defined after the
Engine element are ignored.