On Nov 12, 2008, at 1:07 PM, Vamsavardhana Reddy wrote:
As part of deploying SCA enhanced Web Applications in Geronimo with Tuscany Plugin, I am looking to add a ModuleBuilderExtension (MBE) to TomcatModuleBuilder and a NamingBuilder. The purpose of the MBE is to add SCA related EmbeddedRuntimeGBean to the web application config which will deploy the application composite to the SCA domain. The purpose of the NamingBuilder is to add SCA Domain and other objects (required for injection of SCA references in servlets etc.) into the WebAppContext. I am seeing that the MBE and NamingBuilder GBeans which are added as part of the Tuscany Plugin can not get dynamically added to the MBEs configured in tomcat6- builder config and NamingBuilders configured in j2ee-deployer config. The one option I see is to update the plan.xml files in tomcat6-builder and j2ee-deployer configs and rebuild the server. But this won't be like the MBE and NamingBuilder is getting added as part of Tuscany-plugin installation. The other option is to add (don't know if it is easy to do this hack) the MBE and NamingBuilder to the corresponding collections in TomcatModuleBuilder and NamingBuilder GBeans. I appreciate any suggestions/comments or inputs on any alternate approach that I am not seeing.
Yup, this is a problem. So far we've sidestepped it by just adding all the known desired MBE's to the appropriate *-deployer plan, and as you have found this is non-extensible.
One possiblitly would be to define marker interfaces such as WebMBE, EjbMBE, etc that the appropriate MBE's could implement and use the interface in the references pattern.
Anyone have a better idea? thanks david jencks
Thanks, Vamsi
