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| 4 | </a></small></td></tr></table><table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#525D76"><font face="arial,helvetica.sanserif" color="#ffffff"><a name="Introduction"><strong>Introduction</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> |
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| 6 | <p> |
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| 7 | With usage of APR or NIO APIs as the basis of its connectors, Tomcat is |
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| 8 | able to provide a number of extensions over the regular blocking IO |
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| 9 | as provided with support for the Servlet API. |
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| 10 | </p> |
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| 12 | <p> |
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| 13 | <b>IMPORTANT NOTE: Usage of these features requires using the APR or NIO |
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| 14 | HTTP connectors. The classic java.io HTTP connector and the AJP connectors |
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| 15 | do not support them.</b> |
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| 16 | </p> |
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| 17 | |
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| 18 | </blockquote></td></tr></table><table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#525D76"><font face="arial,helvetica.sanserif" color="#ffffff"><a name="Comet support"><strong>Comet support</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> |
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| 19 | |
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| 20 | <p> |
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| 21 | Comet support allows a servlet to process IO aynchronously, recieving |
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| 22 | events when data is available for reading on the connection (rather than |
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| 23 | always using a blocking read), and writing data back on connections |
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| 24 | asychnonously (most likely responding to some event raised from some |
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| 25 | other source). |
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| 26 | </p> |
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| 27 | |
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| 28 | <table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font face="arial,helvetica.sanserif" color="#ffffff"><a name="CometEvent"><strong>CometEvent</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> |
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| 29 | |
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| 30 | <p> |
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| 31 | Servlets which implement the <code>org.apache.catalina.CometProcessor</code> |
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| 32 | interface will have their event method invoked rather than the usual service |
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| 33 | method, according to the event which occurred. The event object gives |
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| 34 | access to the usual request and response objects, which may be used in the |
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| 35 | usual way. The main difference is that those objects remain valid and fully |
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| 36 | functional at any time between processing of the BEGIN event until processing |
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| 37 | an END or ERROR event. |
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| 38 | The following event types exist: |
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| 39 | </p> |
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| 40 | |
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| 41 | <ul> |
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| 42 | <li>EventType.BEGIN: will be called at the beginning |
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| 43 | of the processing of the connection. It can be used to initialize any relevant |
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| 44 | fields using the request and response objects. Between the end of the processing |
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| 45 | of this event, and the beginning of the processing of the end or error events, |
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| 46 | it is possible to use the response object to write data on the open connection. |
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| 47 | Note that the response object and depedent OutputStream and Writer are still |
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| 48 | not synchronized, so when they are accessed by multiple threads, |
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| 49 | synchronization is mandatory. After processing the initial event, the request |
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| 50 | is considered to be committed.</li> |
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| 51 | <li>EventType.READ: This indicates that input data is available, and that one read can be made |
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| 52 | without blocking. The available and ready methods of the InputStream or |
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| 53 | Reader may be used to determine if there is a risk of blocking: the servlet |
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| 54 | should read while data is reported available, and can make one additional read |
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| 55 | should read while data is reported available. When encountering a read error, |
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| 56 | the servlet should report it by propagating the exception properly. Throwing |
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| 57 | an exception will cause the error event to be invoked, and the connection |
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| 58 | will be closed. |
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| 59 | Alternately, it is also possible to catch any exception, perform clean up |
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| 60 | on any data structure the servlet may be using, and using the close method |
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| 61 | of the event. It is not allowed to attempt reading data from the request |
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| 62 | object outside of the execution of this method.<br> |
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| 63 | On some platforms, like Windows, a client disconnect is indicated by a READ event. |
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| 64 | Reading from the stream may result in -1, an IOException or an EOFException. |
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| 65 | Make sure you properly handle all these three cases. |
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| 66 | If you don't catch the IOException, Tomcat will instantly invoke your event chain with an ERROR as |
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| 67 | it catches the error for you, and you will be notified of the error at that time. |
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| 68 | </li> |
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| 69 | <li>EventType.END: End may be called to end the processing of the request. Fields that have |
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| 70 | been initialized in the begin method should be reset. After this event has |
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| 71 | been processed, the request and response objects, as well as all their dependent |
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| 72 | objects will be recycled and used to process other requests. End will also be |
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| 73 | called when data is available and the end of file is reached on the request input |
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| 74 | (this usually indicates the client has pipelined a request).</li> |
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| 75 | <li>EventType.ERROR: Error will be called by the container in the case where an IO exception |
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| 76 | or a similar unrecoverable error occurs on the connection. Fields that have |
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| 77 | been initialized in the begin method should be reset. After this event has |
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| 78 | been processed, the request and response objects, as well as all their dependent |
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| 79 | objects will be recycled and used to process other requests.</li> |
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| 80 | </ul> |
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| 81 | |
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| 82 | <p> |
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| 83 | There are some event subtypes which allow finer processing of events (note: some of these |
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| 84 | events require usage of the org.apache.catalina.valves.CometConnectionManagerValve valve): |
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| 85 | </p> |
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| 86 | |
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| 87 | <ul> |
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| 88 | <li>EventSubType.TIMEOUT: The connection timed out (sub type of ERROR); note that this ERROR |
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| 89 | type is not fatal, and the connection will not be closed unless the servlet uses the close |
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| 90 | method of the event. |
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| 91 | </li> |
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| 92 | <li>EventSubType.CLIENT_DISCONNECT: The client connection was closed (sub type of ERROR). |
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| 93 | method of the event. |
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| 94 | </li> |
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| 95 | <li>EventSubType.IOEXCEPTION: An IO exception occurred, such as invalid content, for example, |
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| 96 | an invalid chunk block (sub type of ERROR). |
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| 97 | </li> |
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| 98 | <li>EventSubType.WEBAPP_RELOAD: The web application is being reloaded (sub type of END). |
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| 99 | </li> |
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| 100 | <li>EventSubType.SESSION_END: The servlet ended the session (sub type of END). |
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| 101 | </li> |
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| 102 | </ul> |
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| 103 | |
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| 104 | <p> |
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| 105 | As described above, the typical lifecycle of a Comet request will consist in a series of |
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| 106 | events such as: BEGIN -> READ -> READ -> READ -> ERROR/TIMEOUT. At any time, the servlet |
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| 107 | may end processing of the request by using the close method of the event object. |
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| 108 | </p> |
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| 109 | |
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| 110 | </blockquote></td></tr></table> |
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| 111 | |
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| 112 | <table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font face="arial,helvetica.sanserif" color="#ffffff"><a name="CometFilter"><strong>CometFilter</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> |
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| 113 | |
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| 114 | <p> |
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| 115 | Similar to regular filters, a filter chain is invoked when comet events are processed. |
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| 116 | These filters should implement the CometFilter interface (which works in the same way as |
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| 117 | the regular Filter interface), and should be declared and mapped in the deployment |
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| 118 | descriptor in the same way as a regular filter. The filter chain when processing an event |
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| 119 | will only include filters which match all the usual mapping rules, and also implement |
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| 120 | the CometFiler interface. |
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| 121 | </p> |
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| 122 | |
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| 123 | </blockquote></td></tr></table> |
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| 124 | |
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| 125 | <table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font face="arial,helvetica.sanserif" color="#ffffff"><a name="Example code"><strong>Example code</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> |
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| 126 | |
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| 127 | <p> |
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| 128 | The following pseudo code servlet implments asynchronous chat functionality using the API |
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| 129 | described above: |
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| 130 | </p> |
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| 131 | |
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| 132 | <div align="left"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="4"><tr><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="./images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="./images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="./images/void.gif"></td></tr><tr><td width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="./images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#ffffff"><pre> |
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| 133 | public class ChatServlet |
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| 134 | extends HttpServlet implements CometProcessor { |
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| 135 | |
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| 136 | protected ArrayList<HttpServletResponse> connections = |
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| 137 | new ArrayList<HttpServletResponse>(); |
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| 138 | protected MessageSender messageSender = null; |
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| 139 | |
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| 140 | public void init() throws ServletException { |
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| 141 | messageSender = new MessageSender(); |
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| 142 | Thread messageSenderThread = |
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| 143 | new Thread(messageSender, "MessageSender[" + getServletContext().getContextPath() + "]"); |
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| 144 | messageSenderThread.setDaemon(true); |
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| 145 | messageSenderThread.start(); |
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| 146 | } |
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| 147 | |
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| 148 | public void destroy() { |
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| 149 | connections.clear(); |
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| 150 | messageSender.stop(); |
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| 151 | messageSender = null; |
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| 152 | } |
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| 153 | |
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| 154 | /** |
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| 155 | * Process the given Comet event. |
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| 156 | * |
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| 157 | * @param event The Comet event that will be processed |
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| 158 | * @throws IOException |
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| 159 | * @throws ServletException |
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| 160 | */ |
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| 161 | public void event(CometEvent event) |
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| 162 | throws IOException, ServletException { |
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| 163 | HttpServletRequest request = event.getHttpServletRequest(); |
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| 164 | HttpServletResponse response = event.getHttpServletResponse(); |
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| 165 | if (event.getEventType() == CometEvent.EventType.BEGIN) { |
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| 166 | log("Begin for session: " + request.getSession(true).getId()); |
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| 167 | PrintWriter writer = response.getWriter(); |
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| 168 | writer.println("<!doctype html public \"-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en\">"); |
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| 169 | writer.println("<head><title>JSP Chat</title></head><body bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\">"); |
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| 170 | writer.flush(); |
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| 171 | synchronized(connections) { |
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| 172 | connections.add(response); |
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| 173 | } |
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| 174 | } else if (event.getEventType() == CometEvent.EventType.ERROR) { |
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| 175 | log("Error for session: " + request.getSession(true).getId()); |
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| 176 | synchronized(connections) { |
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| 177 | connections.remove(response); |
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| 178 | } |
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| 179 | event.close(); |
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| 180 | } else if (event.getEventType() == CometEvent.EventType.END) { |
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| 181 | log("End for session: " + request.getSession(true).getId()); |
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| 182 | synchronized(connections) { |
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| 183 | connections.remove(response); |
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| 184 | } |
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| 185 | PrintWriter writer = response.getWriter(); |
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| 186 | writer.println("</body></html>"); |
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| 187 | event.close(); |
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| 188 | } else if (event.getEventType() == CometEvent.EventType.READ) { |
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| 189 | InputStream is = request.getInputStream(); |
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| 190 | byte[] buf = new byte[512]; |
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| 191 | do { |
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| 192 | int n = is.read(buf); //can throw an IOException |
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| 193 | if (n > 0) { |
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| 194 | log("Read " + n + " bytes: " + new String(buf, 0, n) |
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| 195 | + " for session: " + request.getSession(true).getId()); |
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| 196 | } else if (n < 0) { |
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| 197 | error(event, request, response); |
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| 198 | return; |
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| 199 | } |
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| 200 | } while (is.available() > 0); |
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| 201 | } |
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| 202 | } |
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| 203 | |
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| 204 | public class MessageSender implements Runnable { |
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| 205 | |
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| 206 | protected boolean running = true; |
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| 207 | protected ArrayList<String> messages = new ArrayList<String>(); |
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| 208 | |
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| 209 | public MessageSender() { |
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| 210 | } |
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| 211 | |
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| 212 | public void stop() { |
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| 213 | running = false; |
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| 214 | } |
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| 215 | |
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| 216 | /** |
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| 217 | * Add message for sending. |
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| 218 | */ |
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| 219 | public void send(String user, String message) { |
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| 220 | synchronized (messages) { |
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| 221 | messages.add("[" + user + "]: " + message); |
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| 222 | messages.notify(); |
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| 223 | } |
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| 224 | } |
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| 225 | |
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| 226 | public void run() { |
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| 227 | |
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| 228 | while (running) { |
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| 229 | |
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| 230 | if (messages.size() == 0) { |
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| 231 | try { |
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| 232 | synchronized (messages) { |
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| 233 | messages.wait(); |
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| 234 | } |
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| 235 | } catch (InterruptedException e) { |
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| 236 | // Ignore |
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| 237 | } |
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| 238 | } |
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| 239 | |
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| 240 | synchronized (connections) { |
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| 241 | String[] pendingMessages = null; |
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| 242 | synchronized (messages) { |
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| 243 | pendingMessages = messages.toArray(new String[0]); |
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| 244 | messages.clear(); |
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| 245 | } |
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| 246 | // Send any pending message on all the open connections |
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| 247 | for (int i = 0; i < connections.size(); i++) { |
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| 248 | try { |
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| 249 | PrintWriter writer = connections.get(i).getWriter(); |
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| 250 | for (int j = 0; j < pendingMessages.length; j++) { |
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| 251 | writer.println(pendingMessages[j] + "<br>"); |
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| 252 | } |
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| 253 | writer.flush(); |
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| 254 | } catch (IOException e) { |
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| 255 | log("IOExeption sending message", e); |
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| 256 | } |
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| 257 | } |
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| 258 | } |
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| 259 | |
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| 260 | } |
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| 261 | |
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| 262 | } |
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| 263 | |
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| 264 | } |
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| 265 | |
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| 266 | } |
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| 267 | </pre></td><td width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="./images/void.gif"></td></tr><tr><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="./images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="./images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="./images/void.gif"></td></tr></table></div> |
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| 268 | |
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| 269 | </blockquote></td></tr></table> |
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| 270 | <table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font face="arial,helvetica.sanserif" color="#ffffff"><a name="Comet timeouts"><strong>Comet timeouts</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> |
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| 271 | <p>If you are using the NIO connector, you can set individual timeouts for your different comet connections. |
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| 272 | To set a timeout, simple set a request attribute like the following code shows: |
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| 273 | <div align="left"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="4"><tr><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="./images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="./images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="./images/void.gif"></td></tr><tr><td width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="./images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#ffffff"><pre>CometEvent event.... event.setTimeout(30*1000);</pre></td><td width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="./images/void.gif"></td></tr><tr><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="./images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="./images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="./images/void.gif"></td></tr></table></div> or |
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| 274 | <div align="left"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="4"><tr><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="./images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="./images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="./images/void.gif"></td></tr><tr><td width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="./images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#ffffff"><pre>event.getHttpServletRequest().setAttribute("org.apache.tomcat.comet.timeout", new Integer(30 * 1000));</pre></td><td width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="./images/void.gif"></td></tr><tr><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="./images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="./images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="./images/void.gif"></td></tr></table></div> |
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| 275 | This sets the timeout to 30 seconds. |
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| 276 | Important note, in order to set this timeout, it has to be done on the <code>BEGIN</code> event. |
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| 277 | The default value is <code>soTimeout</code> |
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| 278 | </p> |
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| 279 | <p>If you are using the APR connector, all Comet connections will have the same timeout value. It is <code>soTimeout*50</code> |
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| 280 | </p> |
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| 281 | </blockquote></td></tr></table> |
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| 282 | |
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| 283 | </blockquote></td></tr></table><table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#525D76"><font face="arial,helvetica.sanserif" color="#ffffff"><a name="Asynchronous writes"><strong>Asynchronous writes</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> |
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| 284 | |
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| 285 | <p> |
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| 286 | When APR or NIO is enabled, Tomcat supports using sendfile to send large static files. |
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| 287 | These writes, as soon as the system load increases, will be performed |
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| 288 | asynchronously in the most efficient way. Instead of sending a large response using |
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| 289 | blocking writes, it is possible to write content to a static file, and write it |
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| 290 | using a sendfile code. A caching valve could take advantage of this to cache the |
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| 291 | response data in a file rather than store it in memory. Sendfile support is |
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| 292 | available if the request attribute <code>org.apache.tomcat.sendfile.support</code> |
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| 293 | is set to <code>Boolean.TRUE</code>. |
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| 294 | </p> |
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| 295 | |
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| 296 | <p> |
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| 297 | Any servlet can instruct Tomcat to perform a sendfile call by setting the appropriate |
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| 298 | request attributes. It is also necessary to correctly set the content length |
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| 299 | for the response. When using sendfile, it is best to ensure that neither the |
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| 300 | request or response have been wrapped, since as the response body will be sent later |
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| 301 | by the connector itself, it cannot be filtered. Other than setting the 3 needed |
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| 302 | request attributes, the servlet should not send any response data, but it may use |
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| 303 | any method which will result in modifying the response header (like setting cookies). |
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| 304 | </p> |
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| 306 | <ul> |
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| 307 | <li>org.apache.tomcat.sendfile.filename: Canonical filename of the file which will be sent as |
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| 308 | a String</li> |
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| 309 | <li>org.apache.tomcat.sendfile.start: Start offset as a Long</li> |
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| 310 | <li>org.apache.tomcat.sendfile.end: End offset as a Long</li> |
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| 311 | </ul> |
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| 313 | </blockquote></td></tr></table></td></tr><!--FOOTER SEPARATOR--><tr><td colspan="2"><hr size="1" noshade></td></tr><!--PAGE FOOTER--><tr><td colspan="2"><div align="center"><font size="-1" color="#525D76"><em> |
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| 314 | Copyright © 1999-2008, Apache Software Foundation |
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| 315 | </em></font></div></td></tr></table></body></html> |
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