we don't want it but couldn't it be merged a bit? - Romain
2012/5/3 David Blevins <[email protected]> > > On May 2, 2012, at 2:00 AM, Romain Manni-Bucau wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > currently we use ServerListener which is in tomee-catalina to start > openejb > > in tomee. > > > > why isnt it in the loader to let it be used as before (adding the loader > in > > tomcat/lib and the tomee webapp in webapps)? > > > > why org.apache.tomee.installer.Installer#installAll is still used and not > > replaced by installFull? = why don't we delete OpenEJBListener? > > > > Any hidden trick? > > Both listeners don't do much other than call TomcatLoader which is what > really boots the integration. > > The OpenEJBListener is still used by the webapp and requires > webapps/tomee/lib/ to exist, adds those libs to the StandardClassLoader, > then uses reflection to call TomcatLoader. It can't call it directly as > TomcatLoader requires all the openejb-* and tomee-* jars and their > dependencies. The whole point is that it adds those jars, then calls the > TomcatLoader. > > The ServerListener just calls the TomcatLoader directly. As it has a > direct dependency on TomcatLoader, it's in the same jar as TomcatLoader. > > If we want to eliminate the tomee.war we could eliminate OpenEJBListener. > > > -David > >
