Hhm, well we could certainly implement a fallback scheme:
if relative
if found relative to bundle, job done
else if found relative to jetty.home, job done
else exception
WDYT?
Jan
On 4 June 2013 11:23, Craig Ching <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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