Re: [Axis2] Loading axis module from a jar file

[Glen Daniels]

Hi folks:

Do we actually even need to "unpack" the mar file at all?  Can we just use 
GetResourceAsStream() to read stuff out of it directly?

--Glen

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Srinath Perera" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <axis-dev@ws.apache.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 9:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Axis2] Loading axis module from a jar file


Deepal sounds good to me, may be we do not need looking up the home
directory, and instead I prefer the current directory the code run.

I am not a big fan of a any arbitroy code that runs, messes with my
home direcotry :) even though they always to it ;). may be name should
at lease be .axis2/.... so it is hidden

Thanks
Srinath

On 5/25/05, Deepal Jayasinghe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi all;

At the last chat we decide to bundle ws modules into axis2 distribution 
and
without given the repository file name provide a way to engage modules. So
in that case axis2 distribution archive file might look like below;

Axis2.jar
  META-INF
  org/apache/axis/.....
  modules/
     addressing.mar
     rm.mar

In this case deployment will work as follows;
  when some one ask to engage a module first it check whether that module 
is
available in AxisConfiguration if it found then engage that module , else
it check inside   user.dir/Axis2Home/modules/    directory and if the
required module found deploye that module and engage that , if it dose not
available there then

try to load the corresponding module.mar file form the classpath
(getResourceAsStream) if it found then read it and write that into
user.dir/Axis2Home/modules/  as new module archive file. next using that
module archive file first deploy the module and engage that module.

In this  case I made some assumptions
 1. Assumed module archive file name equal to module + .mar
 2. If the module archive found in the classpath extract into
"user.dir/Axis2Home/modules/ "


Comments ?

Thanks and regards
Deepal