I would highly recommend not doing this in Maven first and actually
prototyping something with Plexus and ClassWorlds and it is something
general and simple to start.
This is not a Maven specific thing. After sifting through the plugin
code to try and see how to generalize the mechanism it is painfully
obviously that what's buried in Maven is really general. I would try
it with some simple examples in ClassWorlds as not to get bogged down
in Maven specifics at first even though that it the ultimate target. I
would also recommend enlisting the opinion of Dain if he's not on this
list because he's done a lot of this classloader work and has lots of
good ideas and has attempt to make OSGi like classloaders for just the
purpose you're talking about.
Any file that is read to limit/restrict the classloader/realm should
be in classworlds.
On 10-Mar-08, at 1:27 PM, John Casey wrote:
I'm not entirely sure how to generalize it into plexus just yet,
since I'm jumping through some pretty complex ClassRealm-management
hoops in Maven right now. I'm not sure how I'd even start telling
Plexus to do that atm. The place in the current trunk implementation
to add this stuff is in Maven.
-john
On Mar 10, 2008, at 4:02 PM, Brett Porter wrote:
On 11/03/2008, at 6:52 AM, John Casey wrote:
I'd propose to resolve this using a mechanism borrowed from OSGi:
we should create some sort of manifest of classes to be exported
from the extension for use by the rest of Maven. This file could
be optional, and the existing behavior would result. But if the
file were present, it would name all the classes (and class
patterns?) in the extension artifact (and possibly its
dependencies) to "export" into the main maven ClassRealm(s) for
use by plugins. This is a relatively small change to Maven's
extension mechanism for 2.1, and would restore many of the best
features of the old extension functionality without incurring the
blind incompatibilities of the old system.
Anyone have any thoughts on this?
It was really off the top of my head, but it sounds like the right
approach. So you're saying this would be a maven specific feature,
not a general plexus one?
- Brett
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