Right, but absolute doesn't work for me, I need it to be relative, even
relative to jetty.home is fine, but relative.


On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 11:35 PM, Jan Bartel <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yes, the webdefault.xml specified in the Jetty-defaultWebXmlFilePath can
> be an absolute, external location, *or* internal to the bundle.
>
> Jan
>
>
> On 1 June 2013 00:48, Craig Ching <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Jan,
>>
>> Thanks for the information, I had found that, but what I really wanted to
>> be able to do was have the webdefault editable outside of a bundle so that
>> a user could make a change to it if necessary.  But let me rethink that, it
>> might not be necessary for this.
>>
>> Thanks again!
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Craig
>>
>>
>> On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 12:16 AM, Jan Bartel <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Craig,
>>>
>>> I forgot - there's an even easier way to do this!
>>>
>>> Just define inside your bundle manifest the header
>>> "Jetty-defaultWebXmlFilePath" with either an absolute file location or url,
>>> or a relative location inside the bundle of a webdefault.xml file. The
>>> BundleWebAppProvider will see it when it deploys the bundle as a webapp and
>>> apply it.
>>>
>>> Sorry I didn't think of that earlier - I'm going back over the osgi
>>> documentation even as we speak to ensure its comprehensive!
>>>
>>> Jan
>>>
>>>
>>> On 24 May 2013 10:01, Craig Ching <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks Jan, I appreciate the response!
>>>>
>>>> I did start on trying to configure a DeploymentManager and a
>>>> BundleWebAppProvider, but without documentation to go with it, I was afraid
>>>> I was heading down the wrong path ;-)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 6:47 PM, Jan Bartel <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Craig,
>>>>>
>>>>> Ooops, looks like I forgot to document a feature of webapp bundles on
>>>>> the jetty-osgi doco page here:
>>>>> http://www.eclipse.org/jetty/documentation/current/framework-jetty-osgi.html
>>>>>
>>>>> I will update it.
>>>>>
>>>>> What you can do is to include a META-INF/jetty-webapp-context.xml file
>>>>> (name must be exactly as shown)  in your bundle. That is a normal context
>>>>> xml file that will be applied to the webapp to configure it. So you can 
>>>>> set
>>>>> the location of the webdefault.xml file if you like eg:
>>>>>
>>>>> <?xml version="1.0"  encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
>>>>> <!DOCTYPE Configure PUBLIC "-//Jetty//Configure//EN" "
>>>>> http://www.eclipse.org/jetty/configure_9_0.dtd";>
>>>>> <Configure class="org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext">
>>>>>   <Set name="defaultsDescriptor">file:///tmp/webdefault.xml</Set>
>>>>> </Configure>
>>>>>
>>>>> At the moment, the location of the webdefault.xml has to be absolute
>>>>> and external to the bundle, but I've opened an issue here:
>>>>> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=408910
>>>>> to change it so that it can also name a bundle-relative location.
>>>>> Should get that done before the next jetty-9 release.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> As an alternative, you could also provide your own jetty configuration
>>>>> files instead of using those in the jettyhome/ dir of the jetty osgi boot
>>>>> core bundle - you would need to define at least a DeploymentManager and 
>>>>> the
>>>>> BundleWebAppProvider, and then tell the BundleWebAppProvider the location
>>>>> of the webdefault files you want to apply to all webapps that it deploys.
>>>>> However, that is more complicated, and something I should document rather
>>>>> than trying to explain it in an email :)
>>>>>
>>>>> Jan
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 21 May 2013 04:06, Craig Ching <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> How do I set the default web descriptor (webdefault.xml) when running
>>>>>> in OSGi?  Merely putting one in ${jetty.home}/etc/ should have worked I
>>>>>> would think, but it doesn't appear to have.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>> Craig
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