Hi Marco,
On Aug 9, 2009, at 11:18 PM, Marco Laponder wrote:
David,
I will look into this option. We are maven to install our war (or in
fact ear but I guess that doesn’t make a difference). I am not
familiar with ‘pre-package as geronimo plugin’, but I will look into
this, but if you could point me to any documentation this will be
very much appreciated.
There is some documentation here:
http://cwiki.apache.org/GMOxDOC22/administering-plugins.html
but that seems to be missing the actual text of the examples: the copy
actually in confluence seems to look better:
http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/GMOxDOC22/Administering+plugins
Just to be sure with ‘deploy your jar directly into the maven
repository’ you mean an install-library with the deploy command ?
yes.
Let us know if you have more questions,
thanks
david jencks
Marco
Van: David Jencks [mailto:[email protected]]
Verzonden: donderdag 6 augustus 2009 18:10
Aan: [email protected]
Onderwerp: Re: war framework / external jar setup
While the suggestion of deploying your entire app "in-place" will
almost certainly work, it has a number of limitations -- in-place is
really only designed for development and does not work well with the
geronimo plugin packaging and distribution system.
What may work better for you is to deploy your jar directly into the
geronimo repository and include a dependency on it in the geronimo
plan for your web app. If you update the jar (copying the new
version on top of the old one in the geronimo repository) then if
you restart the web app you will see the new classes.
This method works well with maven and geronimo plugins. For
instance, if your jar and web app are built with maven, and you pre-
package your app as a geronimo plugin, installing the plugin into a
geronimo instance will also pull in the external jar.
hope this helps
david jencks
On Aug 6, 2009, at 4:34 AM, Marco Laponder wrote:
Hi erveryone,
I need some advice on the following situation. We have a war with a
framework which based on configuration in the database and use of
reflection dynamically can call a method of a java class. When this
class is present in a jar (lets call it impl.jar) which is located
in WEB-INF/lib it works as expected.
However what I want to accomplish is:
1) have the impl.jar not included in the WEB-INF but at an
alternate external location, so for a new impl.jar we need not
redeploy the war
2) once the jar has been altered I probably need to force a
reload of the classes already loaded by the Geronimo classloader. Is
this possible and how can this be accomplished
When I am completely off the track or have any other advice which
could help me just point me in the right direction, any
documentation or google terms will be appreciated.
Kind regards,
Marco Laponder
