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Ivan commented on GERONIMO-5743:
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Will come up a temporary solution for this, as it is related to some other
aspects, such as how the applications are kept in Geronimo, etc.
The idea is that :
a. in the first application start up, all the contents will be extracted to a
temporary directory, also turn to use a directory context implementation.
b. A flag file contains the last modification time of the application bundle is
kept, which will be used to detect whether it is required to update the
contents in the temporary folder.
c. Hardcode Geronimo system artifacts there, so that it could be used to avoid
extract those console web applications.
d. By default, the extract action will be take effect, and a context value
could be configured in the web.xml to turn off this function.
e. Based on the extracted directory, it is possible to update the application
files immediately in the debug mode
f. I am thinking to use a DeploymentWatcher to remove the extracted
applications, but need to record some information somewhere, like artifact id
to temp directory path.
> ServletContext.getRealPath() returns null
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> Key: GERONIMO-5743
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-5743
> Project: Geronimo
> Issue Type: Bug
> Security Level: public(Regular issues)
> Components: web
> Affects Versions: 3.0-M1
> Reporter: Jarek Gawor
> Assignee: Ivan
> Fix For: 3.0
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> In 3.0 M1 and trunk, ServletContext.getRealPath() returns null. In previous
> versions of Geronimo a real path was returned. Returning null is ok from
> specification point of view but it breaks compatibility for applications. It
> also looks like there are a number of web applications that rely on the
> getRealPath() to return a non-null value. One such application is Nexus web
> app.
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