MOTAN - the fast C++ servlet container Files

Release 1.0 - 24.03.2012

New in release 1.0:

Logging with log4cplus - like log4j configurable by file log4cplus.properties
Can run as windows service
Ported to Linux
Project files for Microsoft Visual C++ 2010
Project files for NetBeans 7.01
Memory leak control with nvwa (Windows only)

Building for Windows

Motan needs Xerces-c 3.1.1 from http://xerces.apache.org/xerces-c/download.cgi and
Xalan-c 1.11 from http://svn.apache.org/...

Assuming your development path <DEVELOP> (p. e. ~/develop or C:\develop),
the recommended directory layout for windows is as follows:

<DEVELOP>\libs\windows\log4cplus-1.0.4-rc9
<DEVELOP>\libs\windows\Xerces-C_3_1_1
<DEVELOP>\libs\windows\Xalan-C_1_9_0
<DEVELOP>\motan

With VC10, open <DEVELOP>\motan\trunk\projects\win32\vc10\motan.sln

In <DEVELOP>\motan\trunk\src\libmotan\logging.h set the desired logging to LOG_LOG4CPLUS.

When building Xalan with the VC10 IDE, XalanMsgLib needs the xerces dll. A solution is to copy it from
<DEVELOP>\libs\windows\Xerces-C_3_1_1\Build\Win32\VC10\Debug\xerces-c_3_1D.dll resp.
<DEVELOP>\libs\windows\Xerces-C_3_1_1\Build\Win32\VC10\Release\xerces-c_3_1.dll to
<DEVELOP>\libs\windows\Xalan-C_1_9_0\Build\Win32\VC10\Debug or
<DEVELOP>\libs\windows\Xalan-C_1_9_0\Build\Win32\VC10\Release
after building Xerces.

Before starting VC set the environment variable TESTPATH to a location for the testing, p. e. T:\bin
The build process will copy the executables and configuration files to the test path.

After building start motan.exe from %TESTPATH%
Using a browser navigate to http://localhost:8080/index.html

Installing as Windows Service

Start 'motan.exe -i' to install the windows service. Change the startup settings from the service console (services.msc).
Use 'motan.exe -r' to uninstall the windows service.
To run several instances of the service, you need several instances of motan.exe with different names:
...\motan1\motan1.exe
...\motan2\motan2.exe
Configure the http adapter for separate ports (motan.xml). Configure the logging for separate files.



Building for Linux

For Linux, use the version 1.11 of Xalan-c (from the repository http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/xalan/c/trunk ).
The layout for linux goes like this:

<DEVELOP>/libs/linux/log4cplus-1.0.4-rc9
<DEVELOP>/libs/linux/Xerces-C_3_1_1
<DEVELOP>/libs/linux/xalan-c-1.11
<DEVELOP>/motan

With NetBeans, open ...

Without NetBeans, use the <DEVELOP>/.../build.xml with Ant.


28.09.2012

Release 0.9

Motan is a C++ servlet container finally published as open source.
For the time being, building for WIN32 with VC++6 is supported, other platforms to follow. 

Getting started:

- Decompress archive under a development directory, p. e. c:\develop 
- Set system variable TESTPATH to your test directory (p. e. set TESTPATH=C:\TEST). 
- Install XERCES-C (2.7) and XALAN-C (2.10) under the same directory: c:\develop\xerces-c-src_2_7_0 and c:\develop\Xalan-C_1_10_0 
- You will need xerces-c_2_7D.dll and Xalan-C_1_10D.dll in your path or in the test directory 
- You will need MSVCRTD.DLL and MSVCP60D.DLL in your path or in the test directory 
- Build project 'demoServlets' with MS Visual C++ 6. This creates %TESTPATH%\webroot and the application %TESTPATH%\webroot\demo 
- Start %TESTPATH%\motan.exe and point your browser to http://localhost/demo/index.html 
  Test the first servlet: The path 'demo' corresponds to the application directory under your %TESTPATH%\webroot. 
  The demonstration is mapped to the demoServlet according the <servlet-mapping> entry in %TESTPATH%\webroot\demo\web.xml. 

Author:
Walter Frei 
14.08.2007