Robert I was able to get a bean using the appcontextholder. The problem was when I imported the class for that bean in my servlet I got a noclassdeffound error. If I treated the bean as object it worked.
Thanks John -----Original Message----- From: "robert lazarski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: 8/12/07 4:38 PM Subject: Re: Axis2 Spring Question Try using the bean I showed you - that'll work inside or outside the aar. Robert On 8/12/07, John Pfeifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Robert, > > My original configuration was an aar file with all of it's libraries inside > the lib directory of the aar file. In addition, I was running spring within > the aar file using a SpringInit class. This worked very well, but now I > need to package some servlets in the same war file as my axis2.war (which > contains my aar). These servlets need access to beans defined within the > spring context which is inside the aar file. > > Since the servlets are loaded by the webapp classloader and the axis2 > deployment classloader is a child of the webapp, it seems that my servlets > won't have access to the classes (and subsequently the beans that are > created) inside the aar file. I tried this and it didn't work for the > reasons mentioned above. I then tried moving all librares from the aar file > to the WEB-INF/lib directory which includes the spring.jar file. This got > me a little bit closer, but I still have the same issues. My servlets still > depend on classes that reside inside the aar and are unable to load them > when the container starts up. I am afraid that my only solution is to move > these common classes into a different jar and put that in the WEB-INF/lib > directory. So in essence, I don't see a way for servlets to reference any > classes that are loaded from within the aar file. > > With that being said, I am open to suggestions. Also, it's quite possible > that I am doing something wrong. Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > > John > > > -----Original Message----- > From: robert lazarski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sat 8/11/2007 8:34 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Axis2 Spring Question > > If I understand you correctly, you just need to get a hold of your > beans anytime, anywhere. If you are doing Spring inside the AAR, you > already defined 'bean id="applicationContext"' . If not, you can still > make use of it. At the web-app level , axis2 uses that bean to get its > spring beans to make a Service out of it. This all takes advantage of > the Spring's ApplicationContextAware interface. Its perfectly fine for > you to use the static method that Axis2's internals use also: > > http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/webservices/axis2/trunk/java/modules/spring/src/org/apache/axis2/extensions/spring/receivers/SpringAppContextAwareObjectSupplier.java?view=markup > > Here's some javadoc: > > http://ws.apache.org/axis2/1_2/api/org/apache/axis2/extensions/spring/receivers/ApplicationContextHolder.html > http://www.springframework.org/docs/api/org/springframework/beans/factory/BeanFactory.html#getBean(java.lang.String) > > HTH, > Robert > > On 8/10/07, John Pfeifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I currently have my web services running with axis2 (1.1) and spring > running > > inside the aar. Recently I have discovered a need for servlets and/or > web > > pages to get access to the objects that are in the spring context. If I > > move spring to the WEB-INF/lib, can I do this? The Axis2-Spring > integration > > docs don't go into much detail here. I guess what I am wondering is > whether > > or not the aar files are available at the time the Spring > > ContextLoaderListener starts up. If so, this should work. > > > > Thanks, > > > > John > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
