Configuring the Connector
Compile your new connector into a shared library (DLL) and place it in the bin directory of your HydraExpress installation. You are now set to load the connector into the Agent. You do this by creating a new rwsf:connector element in rwagent.xml with the appropriate configuration information. For example:
<rwsf:connector name="My_New_Connector"
class="myconnector.createMyConnector" handlerChain="http">
<rwsf:property name="host" value="<host-name>"/>
<rwsf:property name="port" value="<port-value>"/>
...
</rwsf:connector>
The name attribute is the string that represents the connector to the rest of the system. This string must be unique in the system.
The class attribute defines how to create an instance of this connector. In this example, myconnector is the name of the shared library that contains the connector code. The string createMyConnector is the name of the method that was created from the RWSF_DEFINE_CONNECTOR macro described above.
The handlerChain attribute specifies the name of the handler chain that this connector is tied to. The handler chain must be declared in rwagent.xml before the connector is declared. The example uses the handler chain that the HTTP/1.1 connector is using.
