Thanks, Jack, it sounds a good idea. We even could give a global setting whether we need to refresh the folder while starting the web application. I am still thinking whether OSGI provides any easy api to acccess those contents in the embbed jar files of bundle. If anyone know, please help to figure out :-)
2010/5/11 Jack Cai <[email protected]> > Shall we take #2 but do the extraction at deployment time? I understand it > will break some user scenarios (e.g., update a CAR manually hoping a server > restart will see the new content). But this is worth sacrificing considering > that it will improve app startup performance - which is a much more frequent > scenario. > > -Jack > > > On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Ivan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> In Servlet 3.0, it is allowed to load the resource from >> META-INF/resources of jar files in the WEB-INF folder while it is not found >> in root folder. But now, in our BundleDirContext, there is not a direct way >> (like getEntry) to read the resource. >> 1. The simplest wayt is to wrap the url with zip stream, then iterator >> it to find the resource. But it seems less efficient. >> 2. Extract META-INF/resources from those jar files to the temp folders >> ( even one big folder) while starting the bundleDirContext. With this >> solution, extra disk space is required >> 3. Use classloader to load resource, with this, we may load some >> unwanted resource ... >> Personally, I like the #2. Any thoughts ? >> -- >> Ivan >> > > -- Ivan
