RedAnt is a lightweight distributed web container which based on Netty

Features:

• Bean Manager : all objects can be managed by using Bean annotation
• Object Autowired : object can be injected automatically by using Autowired annotation
• Customized Route : user can self customize their routes with RouterController,RouterMapping,RouterParam annotation
• Param Convert : with TypeConverter interface http parameters can be converted into Object (support PrimitiveType,Map,List,JavaBean)
• Session Manager : include a session manager,a session is a Netty ChannelHandlerContext
• Cookie Manager : include a cookie manager,user should handle their cookies before return a render
• Result Render : a render interface which support html,xml,plain,json
• Distributed Mode : support distributed cluster mode

Redant is a web container based on Netty,tomcat or weblogic is no longer required to publish a web application,the only thing you should do is start it with java. The main Class is : com.redant.main.ServerBootstrap

1 : Use IDEA or eclipse to run the Main Class。

2 : Use Maven to build Redant into an executable jar, and run with : java -jar redant-jar-with-dependencies.jar

After startup the Server, visit http://127.0.0.1:8888 (the default port can be modified in redant.properties) in a browser.If you get "Welcome to redant!" returned then the server is started successfully. There are four default Routers included:

GET / HTML

GET /user/count JSON

GET /user/list JSON

GET /user/info JSON

* * HTML

The Cluster mode is made by a Master and several Slaves.Master will accept http request,and send them to slave to handle.Each slave can run as a standalone server.

The Main Class to start ZooKeeperServer : com.redant.cluster.zk.ZkBootstrap

The Main Class to start Master : com.redant.cluster.master.MasterServerBootstrap,the start process:

1 : Start a ZooKeeperServer(you can set to use Standalone or Cluster mode in zkConfig.properties default mode is Standalone)

2 : Start a SlaveNode Watcher to watch the state of all Slave

3 : Start a Master Server

The Main Class to start Slave : com.redant.cluster.slave.SlaveServerBootstrap,the start process:

1：Register the current Server into ZooKeeper

2：Start a Slave Server

All objects can be managed by using Bean annotation,and object can be injected automatically by using Autowired annotation.It's very easy to use them like you are doing it with spring

Tips： More information please see wiki: Bean

Use RouterController to customize a Controller. RouterMapping will specify the exact method,RouterController+RouterMapping can only match a http request. RouterParam is used to mark the parameters in the method.POJO will be converted automatically while PrimitiveType should be marked with a RouterParam annotation

Tips： More information please see wiki: Router

A Session Manager is included to store custom sessions. A session is a Netty ChannelHandlerContext,and the channelId is used as a sessionId. Each session hold a map to store the properties

Tips： More information please see wiki: Session

A Cookie Manager is included to handle custom cookies,is is important to note thatcookies should be set or remove before a render is returned

Tips： More information please see wiki: Cookie