RE: A Resource ObjectFactory as LifecycleListener ?

2004-12-13 Thread Shapira, Yoav
Hi, Why go through all this? The point of the JNDI Resources part of the Servlet Specification is to allow portable interaction with external resources. Your approach loses all the portability (it's Tomcat-specific) without gaining much of anything. You could do the same stuff in your webapp,

Re: A Resource ObjectFactory as LifecycleListener ?

2004-12-13 Thread Seth Ladd
Shapira, Yoav wrote: Hi, Why go through all this? The point of the JNDI Resources part of the Servlet Specification is to allow portable interaction with external resources. Your approach loses all the portability (it's Tomcat-specific) without gaining much of anything. You could do the same

RE: A Resource ObjectFactory as LifecycleListener ?

2004-12-13 Thread Shapira, Yoav
Hi, So while we could put all the classes into common/lib and use a singleton pattern, I wouldn't have a way to cleanly shut down the service on app server shutdown (I could be wrong here). You could use a JVM shutdown hook. At least that's portable and not Tomcat-specific. Another

Re: A Resource ObjectFactory as LifecycleListener ?

2004-12-13 Thread Seth Ladd
Shapira, Yoav wrote: Hi, So while we could put all the classes into common/lib and use a singleton pattern, I wouldn't have a way to cleanly shut down the service on app server shutdown (I could be wrong here). You could use a JVM shutdown hook. At least that's portable and not Tomcat-specific.

Re: A Resource ObjectFactory as LifecycleListener ?

2004-12-13 Thread QM
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 08:50:18AM -1000, Seth Ladd wrote: : Another alternative would be to externalize the service itself onto a : separate server, so you don't need to worry about shutting it down at : all ;) : : Well, that's kind of what we do now. We expose the service via Hessian, : so