Dirk,
It was a PEBCAK. The Problem Existed Between Chair And Keyboard. I had
added the slide source to my Web App project to do some debugging and as a
result when my Web App started it was initializing from the projects' slide
class files and not the slide.jar. That would do it since the Namespace
wasn't initialized in the project class files.
Sorry to waste your time but hopefully this conversation will save someone
else the headaches I faced.
Regards,
Matt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dirk Verbeeck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 9:21 AM
Subject: Re: Slide Caching issue
> Matthew Stone wrote:
>
> > I've hit a snag using Slide Structure/Content store. Actually it's more
> > like 2 snags but I think they're related.
> >
> > Here's scenario 1:
> > 1 - Open a web folder
> > 2 - Create a folder/directory and add some files.
> > 3 - Now using a Web App and calling retrieve in the structureHelper
request
> > the contents of step 2.
> > 4 - The result is...the newly created directories and files are not
> > retrieved. You only get the directories/files that existed prior to
step 2.
> >
> > Here's scenario 2:
> > 1 - Use a Web App to create directories/files via the contentHelper &
> > structureHelper.
> > 2 - Open up a web folder
> > 3 - Navigate to the directory containing the directories/files created
by
> > step 1.
> > 4 - The web folder does not display the new directories/files.
> >
> > Originally I thought the problem was the cache wasn't being updated
properly
> > but after doing some research I discovered you guy's are updating the
cache
> > perfectly. The problem lies in the fact that the Slide Webdav servlet
and
> > my web app are using 2 different parts of memory to do the caching.
> > Therefore if I update the "Store" from the Webdav servlet side the cache
is
> > updated but the cache in the Web App still reflects the old store
contents.
> > This means the inverse is true as well, if I update the "Store" from my
web
> > app the Webdav servlet cache is outta synch.
> >
> > I've temporarily worked around this issue by modifying the
> > JDBCDescriptorsStore and FileContentStore to overload
Service.cacheResults()
> > and I return false.
>
> I'll accept a patch that makes cacheResults configurable.
> (For example if you want to use 2 webservers, you have to disable the
cache)
>
> > Of course this is not the preferred solution. So can
> > you please tell me how I can bind to the StandardStore that the WebDav
> > servlet is using so my web app can share its cache. Or otherwise tell
me
> > how you would resolve this issue.
>
> You want to move the slide jars to a lib directory that is shared for all
> webapps.
> What directory excatly depends on your servlet container,for tomcat 4 that
> directory is common/lib.
> Did not try this myself but it should work...
>
> If it doesn't work, please create a small test case.
>
> > Note that from the web app side I know when I need to update the webdav
> > servlet and I also know when I need to skip looking into the cache but I
> > can't find a way in the API to selectively pull from or put to the
cache.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Matt
>
> Dirk
