Eric Jain wrote:
Having spent a fair amount of time with Eclipse recently, I couldn't
help feeling that many of the concepts used for their plug-in
architecture would greatly improve complex server side applications. I'd
just like to pick out two issues; let me know if have any solutions or
workarounds...
1) Dependency management
Good question;
2) Extensibility of web applications
It seems to be rather hard, if not impossible, to add pages, servlets,
tags etc. to an already deployed web application from another
application that is deployed independantly. This would be necessary if
you wanted to provide certain extension points (e.g. in the navigation
bar, overview page, dropdown menus etc.) in your core application. Does
anyone know of a framework that allows you to do such a thing, or must I
write my own (TM)?
Keel MetaFramework (http://keelframework.org - a SF project) has a good chunk
of what you are looking for here. I have not tried an actual hot redeploy
with it yet. I am pretty sure that this is not supported in its default
configuration. However, if somebody wants to add Jetty as a container to it
(a fairly trivial operation), that _should_ give you hotdeploy. The mailing
list is fairly active, so if you ask for info, you should get it in short
order.
--
Eric Jain
Regards,
Steve
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