org.apache.catalina
Interface Engine

All Superinterfaces:

Container

All Known Implementing Classes:

StandardEngine

public interface Engine

extends Container

An Engine is a Container that represents the entire Catalina servlet engine. It is useful in the following types of scenarios:

• You wish to use Interceptors that see every single request processed by the entire engine.
• You wish to run Catalina in with a standalone HTTP connector, but still want support for multiple virtual hosts.

In general, you would not use an Engine when deploying Catalina connected to a web server (such as Apache), because the Connector will have utilized the web server's facilities to determine which Context (or perhaps even which Wrapper) should be utilized to process this request.

The child containers attached to an Engine are generally implementations of Host (representing a virtual host) or Context (representing individual an individual servlet context), depending upon the Engine implementation.

If used, an Engine is always the top level Container in a Catalina hierarchy. Therefore, the implementation's setParent() method should throw IllegalArgumentException.

Version:

$Revision: 1.6 $ $Date: 2001/08/23 22:32:10 $

Author:

Craig R. McClanahan

Fields inherited from interface org.apache.catalina.Container

ADD_CHILD_EVENT, ADD_MAPPER_EVENT, ADD_VALVE_EVENT, REMOVE_CHILD_EVENT, REMOVE_MAPPER_EVENT, REMOVE_VALVE_EVENT

Method Summary

void	addDefaultContext(DefaultContext defaultContext) Set the DefaultContext for new web applications.
java.lang.String	getDefaultHost() Return the default hostname for this Engine.
Service	getService() Return the Service with which we are associated (if any).
void	importDefaultContext(Context context) Import the DefaultContext config into a web application context.
void	setDefaultHost(java.lang.String defaultHost) Set the default hostname for this Engine.
void	setService(Service service) Set the Service with which we are associated (if any).

Methods inherited from interface org.apache.catalina.Container

addChild, addContainerListener, addMapper, addPropertyChangeListener, findChild, findChildren, findMapper, findMappers, getCluster, getInfo, getLoader, getLogger, getManager, getName, getParent, getParentClassLoader, getRealm, getResources, invoke, map, removeChild, removeContainerListener, removeMapper, removePropertyChangeListener, setCluster, setLoader, setLogger, setManager, setName, setParent, setParentClassLoader, setRealm, setResources

Method Detail

getDefaultHost

public java.lang.String getDefaultHost()

Return the default hostname for this Engine.

setDefaultHost

public void setDefaultHost(java.lang.String defaultHost)

Set the default hostname for this Engine.

Parameters:

defaultHost - The new default host

getService

public Service getService()

Return the Service with which we are associated (if any).

setService

public void setService(Service service)

Set the Service with which we are associated (if any).

Parameters:

service - The service that owns this Engine

addDefaultContext

public void addDefaultContext(DefaultContext defaultContext)

Set the DefaultContext for new web applications.

Parameters:

defaultContext - The new DefaultContext

importDefaultContext

public void importDefaultContext(Context context)

Import the DefaultContext config into a web application context.

Parameters:

context - web application context to import default context