Host

A Host is a Container that represents a virtual host in the Catalina servlet engine. It is useful in the following types of scenarios:

• You wish to use Interceptors that see every single request processed by this particular virtual host.
• You wish to run Catalina in with a standalone HTTP connector, but still want support for multiple virtual hosts.

In general, you would not use a Host when deploying Catalina connected to a web server (such as Apache), because the Connector will have utilized the web server's facilities to determine which Context (or perhaps even which Wrapper) should be utilized to process this request.

The parent Container attached to a Host is generally an Engine, but may be some other implementation, or may be omitted if it is not necessary.

The child containers attached to a Host are generally implementations of Context (representing an individual servlet context).

代表一个Virtual Host，虚拟主机，每个虚拟主机和某个网络域名Domain Name相匹配

每个虚拟主机下都可以部署(deploy)一个或者多个Web App，每个Web App对应于一个Context，有一个Context path

当Host获得一个请求时，将把该请求匹配到某个Context上，然后把该请求交给该Context来处理匹配的方法是“最长匹配”，所以一个path==""的Context将成为该Host的默认Context 所有无法和其它Context的路径名匹配的请求都将最终和该默认Context匹配