Thanks for fixing MYFACES-2548! I just opened MYFACES-2550 for the
AnnotationConfigurator.getMyfacesImplJarFile() issue.

Thanks again,
Jarek

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:19 AM, Jarek Gawor <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ok, sure. For now I created MYFACES-2548 with a proposed patch. I
> might open one more bug for the
> AnnotationConfigurator.getMyfacesImplJarFile() issue once I do little
> more testing.
>
> Jarek
>
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Jakob Korherr <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> Hi Jarek,
>>
>> It would be great if you could file your problems as issues in the jira.
>> Then I will take a look at them!
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jakob
>>
>> 2010/2/10 Jarek Gawor <[email protected]>
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to make latest MyFaces core run in OSGi environment (in
>>> Geronimo 3.0) and I'm running into a few problems. I'm hoping to get
>>> your input on some of these problems. Here's our setup: we deploy
>>> myfaces-api and myfaces-impl as separate bundles and we also have a
>>> separate bundle that is the application (effectively a war file) that
>>> uses jsf. When running the application, Geronimo sets the context
>>> class loader to the application classloader which delegates the calls
>>> to the application bundle.
>>>
>>> Now, most of the problems we are running into are due to use of the
>>> context class loader in myfaces code to lookup resources within the
>>> META-INF directory.
>>>
>>> For example, IncludeHandler.java looks up
>>> META-INF/rsc/myfaces-dev-error-include.xhtml resource or
>>> FacesConfigurator.java looks up META-INF/standard-faces-config.xml
>>> resource via CCL. This works great in a regular Java environment but
>>> breaks in OSGi. One easy solution for this would be to first ask the
>>> CCL for the resource and if none is found ask the surrounding class
>>> class loader for that resource (assuming the resource we are looking
>>> for lives in the same jar as the class loading it), i.e.:
>>>
>>> URL foo = getContextClassLoader().getResource("META-INF/foo");
>>> if (foo == null) {
>>>   foo = getClass().getClassLoader().getResource("META-INF/foo");
>>> }
>>>
>>> There are other more advanced work-arounds (e.g. ContextFinder in
>>> Equinox) but I'm wondering what people think about updating the
>>> MyFaces code to use this simple solution. Just to be clear, this only
>>> needs to be done for a few known resources that live within the impl
>>> or api jars and not for all resource lookups.
>>>
>>> The ErrorPageWriter.java also looks up some resources via CCL and can
>>> fall back to looking for META-INF/rsc/myfaces-dev-error.xml and
>>> META-INF/rsc/myfaces-dev-debug.xml. But these resources live in the
>>> api module for some reason. I'm not sure why but I'm hoping they can
>>> be moved to the impl module. That way the simple solution mentioned
>>> above would still work.
>>>
>>> My final problem is with
>>> AnnotationConfigurator.getMyfacesImplJarFile(). Besides the problem
>>> with META-INF lookup using CCL and even if that method successfully
>>> looked up that resource, it won't be able to get a JarFile out it.
>>> Because the url returned from resource lookup in OSGi environment
>>> can't be considered as a url to a jar file. So I think we will need a
>>> way to override that piece of code from Geronimo somehow. Maybe even
>>> making the getMyfacesImplJarFile() method protected would work for us
>>> (we can return a fake JarFile that deletes calls to a bundle object).
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Jarek
>>
>>
>

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