Thank you, Andy.
I am trying to understand Avalon because it is wrapped around James, which I need to modify in some ways.
Ahh. (I'm running james as my mail server... BTW don't use file-based repository...I speak from experience!)
Having learned a little about Avalon, I am wondering if this is basically the same thing that EJB containers are all about. Or are there big and important differences between the Avalon-kind of container and EJB containers?
Basically the only real similarity is that they are both containers. As are a bowl and that container which contains a nuclear reactor. Their properties are quite different. And I think Phoenix (BTW avalon has MULTIPLE containers, this happens to be the one James uses) predates EJBs.
Also, I need to get my mailserver (James) to interoperate in ways with a webapp which I have running in Tomcat. Tomcat seems to be wrapped up in its own kind of way. I'd like to get them both in one JVM, but have not started trying to crack that nut yet.
Ahh, yes that might be a difficult nut to crack. It would seem to me what you need to do is see if Phoenix can be launched from a servlet. It would not seem to be that you need a profound understanding of avalon for that. Just find that class which bootstraps phoenix and walk the sourcecode. (which is specified in the 'run' shell script that is used to launch phoenix).
It would be a great deal more work than I'd imagine you'd want to commit if you tried to implement your own avalon container inside of a servlet.
-Andy
Rich Hammer
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