Hey there,
I'm a developer on another Java open source project and I've noticed that cocoon shares some similar problems with our project.
In particular, delployments of our webapp see a variety of different and sometimes _very_ difficult to understand class-loading conflicts in different servlet containers.
And we'd like to come to some real solution to avoid these in the future. I'm wondering if cocoon developers have any good advice here.
FYI, we are actually considering re-building the java classes in *every* external jar we'd put in our web app's WEB-INF directory and name-spacing *every* external class with our namepsace, but this is costly in terms of maintenance and is non-trivial with code that does reflection, etc...
We've also considered writing our own class-loader but we think this won't solve the problem (and could make it worse, in fact).
Any good advice?
-Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ps... our project is described at http://openlaszlo.org
