I will have to comment on this tomorrow... too much to handle now... as I am
falling asleep (its 2:30am).
--jason
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Julian Gosnell wrote:
> Jason,
>
> A couple of questions - maybe more.
>
> Regarding Jetty's not finding various files in RH
> startup:
>
> Ultimately every component deployed onto Jetty will be
> self-contained, i.e. not expect to find any filesystem
> outside it's own deployment. Jetty also will act in
> the same way.
>
> At the moment, we are in a state of flux. You have
> fixed Jetty's two main dependencies on external files
> (it's config and webdefault files) by copying them
> into a jboss config directory.
>
> The problem is that Jetty's static config file, is
> referencing a number of things as filesystem objects,
> which it expects to find somewhere in a tree.
>
> I see several choices:
>
> 1. drop this legacy stuff entirely, until it is
> properly packaged.
>
> 2. merge the Jetty and JBoss distribution trees, so
> that Jetty will find it's tree on every cluster, since
> it is now part of the core JBoss installation tree.
>
> 3. some combination of the above.
>
> In fact, we are already looking at 3, since we have
> moved components of the Jetty tree into the JBoss
> tree.
>
>
> I guess I should just strip verything else out of the
> config file and possiby even look at doing the
> remaining configuration via JBoss' standard config
> mechanism - I'll get onto it.
>
> For the moment simply set JettyHome to point to a
> valid Jetty-3.1.RC9 tree (in jetty-service.xml) and
> everything should start up fine. (It has to be RC9
> because of the repackaging).
>
> however all is not well. There are some runtime
> issues.
>
> 1. JSPs do not work.
>
> In order to find the Jasper JSP Servlet, Jetty needs
> access to the org.apache.jasper.jar with which it
> ships. I got this working on the train this morning by
> copying the jar into thirdparty/mortbay/jetty/lib
> (whilst you are in there, the jaxp jar does not seem
> to be needed).
>
> 2. JSPs will still not work !
>
> Although Jetty will start up OK, when you request a
> JSP it's compilation fails, because Jetty cannot
> locate the classes held in javac.jar. I tried putting
> this in jetty/lib, although this is really the wrong
> place for it since it should be a shared resource. The
> compile started, but javac could not see the Jasper or
> javax.servlet.jar classes, although Jetty was able to
> find them at startup.
>
> I don't know enough about how JBoss' ClassLoader
> system works to guess at what is happening, but this
> same Jetty release works perfectly in JBoss-2.4, so
> something very different is happening in RH.
>
> 3. Aside from JSPs not working, a SOAP service that
> deploys fine on 2.4 is failing to load a class stored
> in war/WEB-INF/lib/activation.jar, because it has
> already been loaded. I was looking at this until I was
> drawn away by the repackaging issues.
>
> I shall sort out the config issues tonight - although
> I would also like to get a 2.4.1 release out.
>
> If you can tell me anything about how ClassLoaders are
> structured within RH, this would be most useful in
> trying to figure out what is going on with Jasper and
> SOAP. Or perhaps I should address this one to Marc?
>
>
> Talk to you later,
>
>
>
> Jules
>
>
> --- Jason Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jetty
> is still not really that happy, it is
> > complaining about missing files
> > and such...
> >
> > Also, I don't know if this is related to the update
> > of the jetty support
> > files, but JBoss hands when ^c on the console now...
> > only a kill -9 will end
> > it.
> >
> > =(
> >
> > --jason
> >
> >
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