On 10/15/08, Sisk, Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >FtpServer is certainly registered in the Spring application context, > >using the custom XML elements or the standard Spring elements. > >However, as you point out, we do not support starting FtpServer using > >the custom elements (and I don't think we should as I think it's a bad > >idea, more on that further down). However, if using the regular Spring > ><bean> element you could likely call start() as the init-method. I > >haven't tried it though. > > So I guess that's a "no".
If you re-read what I'm saying above I do say how to do it, right? > So you are saying ultimately, I will just call a main() method to > construct and start FTPServer in a deployed envrironment? That's fine, > if so. You removed the part of my answer where I explained how to do this in a Java EE server, for example using a context listener. > I can just write a shell script to call it, starting FTPServer deployed > on the server (Glassfish). It just seemed redundant to use Spring, if > I'll be calling a main() method, anyway. But no big deal. Spring is used for dependency injection (setting up the bean graph), not for building your complete application in XML. /niklas
