thanks for the steps. I will open a Jira for this work. One more question,
is ContributionClassLoaderProvider a new class? I am looking at rev 726772
and I don't see this class.

Regards
Rashmi

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Raymond Feng <[email protected]> wrote:

>  We probably need to do the following:
>
> 1) Define a SPI for
> org.apache.tuscany.sca.contribution.ContributionClassLoaderProvider
> 2) Provide a default implementation based on the ContributionClassLoader we
> have today
> 3) Change ClassReferenceModelResolver to use
> UtilityExtensionPoint.getUtility(ContributionClassLoaderProvider.class) to
> create the classloader for a given contribution instead of hard-coding the
> ContributionClassLoader. The later can be a default if no
> ContributionClassLoaderProvider impl is found
> 4) If you provide your own impl of ContributionClassLoaderProvider,
> register it with
> META-INF/services/org.apache.tuscany.sca.contribution.ContributionClassLoaderProvider
>
> Thanks,
> Raymond
>
>  *From:* Rashmi Hunt <[email protected]>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 07, 2009 1:45 PM
>  *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: ContributionClassLoader
>
> Thanks for looking into this. I am trying to get an understanding on the
> suggested solution. What it means is to have a new utility service
> ContributionClassLoaderProvider  under
> modules/extensibility/src/main/resources/META-INF/services?
> How does this get associated with contribution classloader set in
> ClassReferenceModelResolver.ClassReferenceModelResolver() ? Also
> ContributionClassLoaderProvider will be a new class?
>
> Regards
> Rashmi
>
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Raymond Feng <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> It sounds reasonable to me that we should allow the Tuscany embedders to
>> plug in their own Contribution classloading scheme. The classloader might be
>> constructed based on the contribution graph with the import/export
>> dependencies.
>>
>> I suggest that we add a new utility service such as
>> ContributionClassLoaderProvider into our UtilityExtensionPoint. This way, it
>> can be replaced with a customized ContributionClassLoaderProvider
>> implementation.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Raymond
>>
>> From: Rashmi Hunt
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 10:48 AM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: ContributionClassLoader
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> Is there a way to change the classloader which loads contribution classes
>> or resources in a contribution?
>> Tuscany sets the contribution classloader in
>> ClassReferenceModelResolver.ClassReferenceModelResolver() and
>> is there anyway to use a different classloader?
>>
>> Regards
>> Rashmi
>>
>
>

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