UDP Front-End for JBoss?

[notarysojac]

Hi JBoss folks,

Is it possible to setup an input portal to JBoss so that it will accept UDP 'packets' instead of requiring the Apache/Tomcat HTTPD POST/GET format and escaped arguments string?

The intent was to simply send XML documents into a JBoss web-container to which a UDP connection had been established and have the content of the packet forwarded to a servlet fro further processing.

Thanks for whatever vector to more information you may be able to provide.

Best Regards,

Lance Drake

[erasmomarciano]

Hi
notarysojac
this is not possible due to http protocol working on tcp

[notarysojac]

Hi erasmomarciano,

Thanks for your reply. Having read the line "Apache/Tomcat is the default web-container" someplace, I was wondering what OTHER web-containers might be available - and if there WERE other web-containers - might not one or more of them support other protocols than HTTP on TCP.

I appreciate your taking the time to answer my question. It's my guess that there may not, if fact, be such an opportunity to support UDP into JBoss - but I thought I'd ask.

Best Regards,

Lance Drake

[peterj]

As far as I know, there is no reason why you could not write your own service for JBossAS that opens a UDP port and does what you are asking for. The catch is that you have to either handle the UDP protocol yourself or find a library that will do it for you.

[notarysojac]

Hi Peter -

Exactly... all things are possible - I was hoping to NOT have to write network comm code that would then have to be debugged - the reality is that it's not as easy as one might hope in order to cover all the contingencies.

There's so MUCH to JBoss that I thought maybe I had just not gone into the correct nook or cranny to fetch something which already existed.

The fellow pushing for this UDP connection may be trying to solve a problem that really isn't there - but I'm trying to help investigate the possibilities - it looks like fulfillment of this requirement may be in the 'one-off' category.

Thanks for your input.