I take this a bit further and simply skip the creation of an aar file.  I
put all of my definitions in a single services.xml (using service-group)
file in WEB-INF/services/WebService/META-INF/services.xml.  There is a full
example on my website.

Ben

On 8/12/07, robert lazarski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> If you run into classloader issues at the web app level, all you
> really need to do is just have an aar with its services.xml and
> perhaps wsdl's and xsd's - and move all the classes to be under
> WEB-INF/lib and WEB-INF/classes.
>
> HTH,
> Robert
>
> On 8/12/07, John Pfeifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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)
>
> <http://www.springframework.org/docs/api/org/springframework/beans/factory/BeanFactory.html#getBean%28java.lang.String%29>
> > >
> > >  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
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