Melnica Web Server

Melnica Server is a custom basic Servlet Container application which depends on Socket Programming.

The Description of Project

Melnica is a web server which process servlets. Melnica is a multithreaded server which creates http request, response objects for each client request. For each request, socket connection is established that has output/input streams.

• "conf/melnica.xml" is configuration file of Melnica Server.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Melnica shutdown="SD">
	<Service name="localhost_service_8081" activeWebPlatforms="servlet">
		<Bosphorus port="8081" protocol="HTTP/1.1" timeout="45000" />
		<Host domain="localhost" name="first_local" unpackWars="true" appRootFolderName="webapps" />
	</Service>
	<Service name="localhost_service_8082" activeWebPlatforms="servlet">
		<Bosphorus port="8082" protocol="HTTP/1.1" timeout="45000" />
		<Host domain="localhost" name="second_local" unpackWars="true" appRootFolderName="webapps" />
	</Service>
</Melnica>

Melnica Web Server architecture summary document ==> https://github.com/batux/melnica-server/files/6644410/Developing.Your.Own.Web.Server.pdf

Melnica Web Server Architecture

Component Acrhitecture Overview

Melnica Web Server initialization flow

Melnica Web Server start flow

Melnica Web Server Demo Results

HTML content which served from Melnica Server rendered by browser.

Http header added to client response.

Melnica: Batuhan Düzgün

References

• https://l-webx.gitbooks.io/how_tomcat_works/content/index.html
• https://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/ehchua/programming/webprogramming/HTTP_Basics.html
• https://github.com/xianfengxiong/how-tomcat-work/tree/master/book/tomcat-4.1.12-src
• https://medium.com/@nikhilmanikonda/tomcat-who-i-am-and-what-i-do-e91ff72fb2ea
• https://www.net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de/teaching/computer_networking/ap01.htm