Hi Craig! >> >> 1) Speedup of startup > > See my response on your JIRA issue ... The JIRA issue and this topic are two completely different things. Please take a look at the patch and you'll see.
> if the developer *does* include this > context init parameter, then it seem that we would have to analyze *all* > JARs in WEB-INF/lib, No. You can get access to a package listing by. * converting the class name to a path name: org.apache.shale = org/apache/shale * then use classLoader.getResources(path) then you'll get a list of urls where you can get a "directory listing" of (even if within an jar) * then convert the "directory listing" back to class names * scan the classes you are done ... You do NOT have to scan all classes. Thats the point. Ciao, Mario
