Hi, we have tomcat completely as an OSGI plugin project:
https://github.com/Servoy/servoy-eclipse-tomcat/tree/master/org.apache.tomcat so that we can start it from our eclipse application and also dynamically add servlets and filters from all kinds of plugins (so everything is osgi based) Our app uses websockets quite heavily so i thought lets update now to the latest 8 that has a lot of improvements in this area. Problem is that in StandardRoot https://apache.googlesource.com/tomcat/+/defeda9492a54194ea56e4a8220069608a7aa8f0/java/org/apache/catalina/webresources/StandardRoot.java there is a line: TomcatURLStreamHandlerFactory.register(); in the internalInit this tries to call URL.setURLStreamHandlerFactory(this); in the constructor of that TomcatURLStreamHandlerFactory class but this is in eclipse or i guess in an osgi environment not really possible because that is already set so now it bombs out with "factory al ready set" error Is there any workaround for this or is there any way to improve tomcat 8 so that it places nicer inside an osgi container like eclipse? Or am i really stuck at Tomat 7 for now (and quite some time to come ) -- Johan Compagner Servoy
