| Links Top Level Elements Executors Connectors Containers Nested Components Cluster Elements web.xml Other | The Service Component| Introduction |  | 
  A Service element represents the combination of one or
  more Connector components that share a single
  Engine component for processing incoming
  requests.  One or more Service elements may be nested
  inside a Server element. | 
 | Attributes |  | 
  | Common Attributes |  | 
  All implementations of Service
  support the following attributes: | Attribute | Description | 
|---|
 | className | Java class name of the implementation to use.  This class must
      implement the org.apache.catalina.Serviceinterface.
      If no class name is specified, the standard implementation will
      be used. |  | name | The display name of this Service, which will
      be included in log messages if you utilize standard Catalina
      components.  The name of each Service that is
      associated with a particular Server
      must be unique. | 
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 | Standard Implementation |  | 
  The standard implementation of Service is
  org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.
  It supports the following additional attributes (in addition to the
  common attributes listed above): | 
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 | Nested Components |  | 
  The only components that may be nested inside a Service
  element are one or more Connector elements,
  followed by exactly one Engine element. | 
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