Googling for the error messages reveals nothing, so I'm going to have a look at the c code and try to figure out where it's going wrong.

The O'Reilly book on Tomcat (less than useful) declares that mod_jk2 is required to get this to work, though even they can't get it working for the book. They opine that it "might be fixed by the time you read this". Hmm. mod_jk2 won't even compile at the current release, which is why I'm using mod_jk. The documentation for mod_jk suggests it is capable of jni-based interaction, so I'm pursuing that for the moment.

The whole connector thing seems one of the bad examples of open source - it's fractured (mod_jk, mod_jk2, mod_webapp), badly documented if at all and very fragile. Shame really, as apache httpd and tomcat themselves are such good examples of what open source can produce. I really am a pompous old duffer.

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- posted by Tim Bruce @ 11:12 AM