Hi Saminda, Maybe this will inspire you: https://scm.ops4j.org/repos/ops4j/projects/pax/runner/pax-runner-handler/src/main/java/org/ops4j/pax/runner/handler/internal/
I do not know your time frame about starting Felix from a servlet, but we have have plans to support this in Pax Runner: http://issues.ops4j.org/jira/browse/PAXRUNNER-91 Yet I did not do that since there was not to much interest in it. Cheers, Alin On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 1:35 AM, Saminda Abeyruwan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Devs, > > I've a use case where, embed Felix instance needed to be started from a > servlet. I wrote the the code and tried to initialize embed Felix from the > servelt using load-on-startup. I happen to receive the following exception, > > java.lang.Error: factory already defined > at java.net.URL.setURLStreamHandlerFactory(URL.java:1074) > at org.apache.felix.framework.URLHandlers.<init>(URLHandlers.java > :95) > at org.apache.felix.framework.URLHandlers.registerInstance( > URLHandlers.java:299) > at org.apache.felix.framework.URLHandlersActivator.start( > URLHandlersActivator.java:60) > at org.apache.felix.framework.util.SecureAction.startActivator( > SecureAction.java:589) > at org.apache.felix.framework.Felix$SystemBundleActivator.start( > Felix.java:3771) > at org.apache.felix.framework.util.SecureAction.startActivator( > SecureAction.java:589) > > > Thus, the problem lies with URLHandlers.java:95, where it does the > URL.setURLStreamHandlerFactory(this); > > When my servlet engine started (Tomcat), it also set the "factory" (which is > beyond my control) in > java.net.URLConnection. > > Thus, calling URL.setURLStreamHandlerFactory(this) ; from URLHandlers.java:95 > caused "the factory already defined" error. > > Is there a workaround to solve this problem from Felix. > > Thank you > > Saminda > -- > Saminda Abeyruwan > > Senior Software Engineer > WSO2 Inc. - www.wso2.org >
