I'm listening! Even though this problem is licked for me, if there was a good pattern to use to manage this issue with other libraries I would love to put it in my bag of tricks!
My app is the Mina 2 app. The 3rd party message app is written in Mina 1. There Is an experimental version built on Mina 2, and I packaged that into a library to use in the project. I think the general consensus is that the different versions of the software and the way Java handles loading classes, and the namespace collision between Mina 1 and 2 make the only sane solution to upgrade. On Oct 1, 2011, at 4:53 AM, David Latorre <dvl...@gmail.com> wrote: > If, for any reason, you couldn't port your APP to Mina 2 (that's the safest > choice), you can always use different classloaders for the applications > (similar to the OSGI suggestion). > > > > 2011/9/6 Chris Gamache <cgama...@gmail.com> > >> Understood. Unfortunately, it's not my application using Mina 1. There's a >> nice guide at http://mina.apache.org/changes-between-2x-and-1x.html. I'll >> see how far I can get porting someone else's application. Any other tips >> would be most welcome! >> >> >> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Emmanuel Lécharny <elecha...@apache.org >>> wrote: >> >>> On 9/6/11 10:56 PM, Chris Gamache wrote: >>> >>>> Thanks for the response. The services built on Mina specifically lack >> that >>>> kind of heavy framework. My exposure to OSGi is limited. Could you >> explain >>>> in more detail how OSGi would help here? >>>> >>> It was more or less ironic. >>> >>> Sadly, there is no simple way to make MINA 1 and 2 loaded on the same >> JVM, >>> unless you make the whole project a bundle. That mean you will have to >>> integrate an OSGi container in your application. OSGi offers the big >>> advantage to have a specific class loader which insolate each bundle from >>> the others, allowing you to use two bundles depending on two different >> sets >>> of jars. >>> >>> Not that it's a complex task, but frankly, you'd better migrate your MINA >> 1 >>> application to use MINA 2. >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Regards, >>> Cordialement, >>> Emmanuel Lécharny >>> www.iktek.com >>> >>> >>
