"addLifecycleListener",
"org.apache.catalina.LifecycleListener");
digester.addObjectCreate("Server/Service/Connector",
"org.apache.catalina.connector.http.HttpConnector",
"className");
digester.addSetProperties("Server/Service/Connector");
digester.addSetNext("Server/Service/Connector",
"addConnector",
"org.apache.catalina.Connector");
digester.addObjectCreate("Server/Service/Connector/Factory",
"org.apache.catalina.net.DefaultServerSocketFactory",
"className");
digester.addSetProperties("Server/Service/Connector/Factory");
digester.addSetNext("Server/Service/Connector/Factory",
"setFactory",
"org.apache.catalina.net.ServerSocketFactory");
digester.addObjectCreate("Server/Service/Connector/Listener",
null, // MUST be specified in the element
"className");
digester.addSetNext("Server/Service/Connector/Listener",
"addLifecycleListener",
"org.apache.catalina.LifecycleListener");
// Add RuleSets for nested elements
digester.addRuleSet(new NamingRuleSet("Server/GlobalNamingResources/"));
digester.addRuleSet(new EngineRuleSet("Server/Service/"));
digester.addRuleSet(new HostRuleSet("Server/Service/Engine/")); //有容器和StandardService的关系
digester.addRuleSet(new ContextRuleSet("Server/Service/Engine/Default"));
digester.addRuleSet(new NamingRuleSet("Server/Service/Engine/DefaultContext/"));
digester.addRuleSet(new ContextRuleSet("Server/Service/Engine/Host/Default"));
digester.addRuleSet(new NamingRuleSet("Server/Service/Engine/Host/DefaultContext/"));
digester.addRuleSet(new ContextRuleSet("Server/Service/Engine/Host/"));
digester.addRuleSet(new NamingRuleSet("Server/Service/Engine/Host/Context/"));
digester.addRule("Server/Service/Engine",
new SetParentClassLoaderRule(digester,
parentClassLoader));
return (digester);
}
关键是红色标注的代码，Digester是一个外部jar包里面的类，主要的功能就是解析xml里面的元素并把元素生成对象，把元素的属性设置成对象的属性，并形成对象间的父子兄弟等关系。digester.addObjectCreate("Server", "org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer", "className");//创建一个org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer对象，实际上这里并没有真正创建出一个对象，而是添加一个模式，只是后面创建的对象是根据这些模式和server.xml来的，所以可以暂时这么理解。真正创建对象是在start方法里面的digester.parse(is),is是server.xml文件的流，digester刚才已经添加了StandardServer和StandardService等服务组件，也添加了StandardServer和StandardService的关系以及StandardService和连接器HttpConnector，容器StandardHost的关系，所以调用digester.parse(is)方法后就会根据模式和server.xml文件来生成对象以及他们之间的相互关系。这样我们便有了服务器组件StandardServer的对象，也有了它的子组件StandardService对象等等，再回到start方法，看下