From the tomcat 6 documentation it looks like you can set the classname of things like the Context (http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/config/context.html), Engine (http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/config/engine.html), and Host (http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/config/host.html), but not the Connector.
Am I missing something here or is it just not possible?
The "protocol" attribute on the Connector element is really a class name. It's just that tomcat knows a few special values such as "HTTP/1.1" here to be a bit more friendly.
You could do
<Connector port="8080" protocol="com.example.MyConnector" > 
Yes, it is possible to implement your own connector (We have 2 custom impl. on your servers), you need to implement the protocol and all the jazz form there
for instance:
public class Http11NioInterceptor extends Http11NioProtocol {` public Http11NioInterceptor(){ super(); ep = new NioEndpointX(); //.... } //// } hope this helps
