server.xml
<Server port="8005" shutdown="SHUTDOWN">
<Listener className="org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener" />
<Listener className="org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener" SSLEngine="on" />
<Listener className="org.apache.catalina.core.JreMemoryLeakPreventionListener" />
<Listener className="org.apache.catalina.mbeans.GlobalResourcesLifecycleListener" />
<Listener className="org.apache.catalina.core.ThreadLocalLeakPreventionListener" />
<GlobalNamingResources>
<Resource name="UserDatabase" auth="Container"
type="org.apache.catalina.UserDatabase"
description="User database that can be updated and saved"
factory="org.apache.catalina.users.MemoryUserDatabaseFactory"
pathname="conf/tomcat-users.xml" />
GlobalNamingResources>
<Service name="Catalina">
<Connector port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1"
connectionTimeout="20000"
redirectPort="8443" />
<Connector port="8009" protocol="AJP/1.3" redirectPort="8443" />
<Engine name="Catalina" defaultHost="localhost">
<Realm className="org.apache.catalina.realm.LockOutRealm">
<Realm className="org.apache.catalina.realm.UserDatabaseRealm"
resourceName="UserDatabase"/>
Realm>
<Host name="localhost" appBase="webapps"
unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true">
<Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve" directory="logs"
prefix="localhost_access_log" suffix=".txt"
pattern="%h %l %u %t "%r" %s %b" />
Host>
Engine>
Service>
Server>
代表一个tomcat实例,可包含多个service,管理所有的service生命周期
包含多个connector和一个container
容器:负责处理请求
只有一个,可包含多个host
虚拟主机,虚拟主机允许Tomcat引擎在将配置在一台机器上的多个域名
每个虚拟主机又可以支持多个web应用部署在它下边,这就是我们所熟知的上下文对象
在上下文中又可以部署多个servlet,并且每个servlet都会被一个包装组件(Wrapper)所包含(一个wrapper对应一个servlet)


连接器:负责接收请求,处理与客户端的通信,传递给container
Tomcat源码中与connector相关的类位于org.apache.coyote包中,Connector分为以下几类:
基于HTTP协议,负责建立HTTP连接。它又分为BIO Http Connector与NIO Http Connector两种,后者提供非阻塞IO与长连接Comet支持。默认情况下,Tomcat使用的就是这个Connector。
基于AJP协议,AJP是专门设计用来为tomcat与http服务器之间通信专门定制的协议,能提供较高的通信速度和效率。如与Apache服务器集成时,采用这个协议。
用C实现,通过JNI调用的。主要提升对静态资源(如HTML、图片、CSS、JS等)的访问性能。现在这个库已独立出来可用在任何项目中。Tomcat在配置APR之后性能非常强劲
Connector的三种运行模式: bio nio apr

实现了建立连接、处理连接、和关闭连接等操作

在Catalina中,我们有4种容器,request请求在这4个容器中流转,容器间不是直接调用,而是通过pipeline组件,每个容器都有自己的Pipeline组件,每个Pipeline组件上至少会设定一个Valve(阀门),这个Valve我们称之为BaseValve(基础阀)。可以说基础阀是两个容器之间的桥梁。

图中可以看到在同一个Pipeline上可以有多个Valve,每个Valve都可以做一些操作,无论是Pipeline还是Valve操作的都是Request和Response。而在容器之间Pipeline和Valve则起到了桥梁的作用
catalina组件初始化阶段调用createStartDigester创建Digester对象,解析server.xml规则,实例化组件对象并部分赋值。(反射)
Catalina及它依赖的类比如 XML parser与应用级别的类隔离(以使用不同类加载器的方法),
Catalina是由catalinaLoader加载的,而Bootstrap是由AppClassLoader加载的,所以在Bootstrap中我们无法直接调用Catalina的方法
bootstrap 加载一些公共类、配置环境、实例化Catalina类,具体的业务代码还是在catalina类里面的。这样反射的好处是解耦,可以不依赖应用层的classpath独立加载



收到客户端请求后,容器根据请求 URL 的上下文名称匹配 Web 应用程序,然后根据去除上下文路径和路径参数的路径,按以下规则顺序匹配,并且只使用第一个匹配的 Servlet,后续不再尝试匹配:
如果前三个规则没有匹配成功,那么容器要为请求提供一个默认 Servlet,容器在匹配时区分大小写。
举例:

实现请求映射的一般方法是,首先构建一个路由表,然后按照规范进行匹配,最后返回匹配结果。Tomcat 就是如此,与请求映射相关的类有三个,分别是:


Tomcat的自定义类加载器,WebAppClassLoader打破了双亲委托机制:
public Class<?> loadClass(String name, boolean resolve) throws ClassNotFoundException {
synchronized (JreCompat.isGraalAvailable() ? this : getClassLoadingLock(name)) {
if (log.isDebugEnabled()) {
log.debug("loadClass(" + name + ", " + resolve + ")");
}
Class<?> clazz = null;
// Log access to stopped class loader
checkStateForClassLoading(name);
// (0) Check our previously loaded local class cache
// 先在本地cache查找该类是否已经加载过
clazz = findLoadedClass0(name);
if (clazz != null) {
if (log.isDebugEnabled()) {
log.debug(" Returning class from cache");
}
if (resolve) {
resolveClass(clazz);
}
return clazz;
}
// (0.1) Check our previously loaded class cache
clazz = JreCompat.isGraalAvailable() ? null : findLoadedClass(name);
if (clazz != null) {
if (log.isDebugEnabled()) {
log.debug(" Returning class from cache");
}
if (resolve) {
resolveClass(clazz);
}
return clazz;
}
// (0.2) Try loading the class with the bootstrap class loader, to prevent
// the webapp from overriding Java SE classes. This implements
// SRV.10.7.2
String resourceName = binaryNameToPath(name, false);
ClassLoader javaseLoader = getJavaseClassLoader();
boolean tryLoadingFromJavaseLoader;
try {
// Use getResource as it won't trigger an expensive
// ClassNotFoundException if the resource is not available from
// the Java SE class loader. However (see
// https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58125 for
// details) when running under a security manager in rare cases
// this call may trigger a ClassCircularityError.
// See https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61424 for
// details of how this may trigger a StackOverflowError
// Given these reported errors, catch Throwable to ensure any
// other edge cases are also caught
URL url;
if (securityManager != null) {
PrivilegedAction<URL> dp = new PrivilegedJavaseGetResource(resourceName);
url = AccessController.doPrivileged(dp);
} else {
url = javaseLoader.getResource(resourceName);
}
tryLoadingFromJavaseLoader = (url != null);
} catch (Throwable t) {
// Swallow all exceptions apart from those that must be re-thrown
ExceptionUtils.handleThrowable(t);
// The getResource() trick won't work for this class. We have to
// try loading it directly and accept that we might get a
// ClassNotFoundException.
tryLoadingFromJavaseLoader = true;
}
if (tryLoadingFromJavaseLoader) {
try {
clazz = javaseLoader.loadClass(name);
if (clazz != null) {
if (resolve) {
resolveClass(clazz);
}
return clazz;
}
} catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
// Ignore
}
}
// (0.5) Permission to access this class when using a SecurityManager
if (securityManager != null) {
int i = name.lastIndexOf('.');
if (i >= 0) {
try {
securityManager.checkPackageAccess(name.substring(0,i));
} catch (SecurityException se) {
String error = sm.getString("webappClassLoader.restrictedPackage", name);
log.info(error, se);
throw new ClassNotFoundException(error, se);
}
}
}
boolean delegateLoad = delegate || filter(name, true);
// (1) Delegate to our parent if requested
if (delegateLoad) {
if (log.isDebugEnabled()) {
log.debug(" Delegating to parent classloader1 " + parent);
}
try {
clazz = Class.forName(name, false, parent);
if (clazz != null) {
if (log.isDebugEnabled()) {
log.debug(" Loading class from parent");
}
if (resolve) {
resolveClass(clazz);
}
return clazz;
}
} catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
// Ignore
}
}
// (2) Search local repositories
if (log.isDebugEnabled()) {
log.debug(" Searching local repositories");
}
try {
clazz = findClass(name);
if (clazz != null) {
if (log.isDebugEnabled()) {
log.debug(" Loading class from local repository");
}
if (resolve) {
resolveClass(clazz);
}
return clazz;
}
} catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
// Ignore
}
// (3) Delegate to parent unconditionally
if (!delegateLoad) {
if (log.isDebugEnabled()) {
log.debug(" Delegating to parent classloader at end: " + parent);
}
try {
clazz = Class.forName(name, false, parent);
if (clazz != null) {
if (log.isDebugEnabled()) {
log.debug(" Loading class from parent");
}
if (resolve) {
resolveClass(clazz);
}
return clazz;
}
} catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
// Ignore
}
}
}
throw new ClassNotFoundException(name);
}
为防止Web应用自己的类覆盖JRE的核心类
因为Tomcat需打破双亲委托,假如Web应用里自定义了一个叫Object的类,若先加载该Object类,就会覆盖JRE的Object类,所以Tomcat类加载器优先尝试委托给BootstrapClassLoader去加载,BootstrapClassLoader发现自己已经加载了Object类,直接返回给Tomcat的类加载器,这样Tomcat的类加载器就不会去加载Web应用下的Object类了,避免覆盖JRE核心类
Tomcat 类加载器打破了双亲委托,没有一上来就直接委托给父加载器,为避免本地目录类覆盖JRE核心类先使用了BootstrapClassLoader加载,之后先在本地目录搜索并加载