Barracuda: DefaultApplicationAssembler....

Hi all,

I modified DefaultApplicationAssembler to not load the assembler files
via file IO when a single file is being loaded.  The impetus to do
this was after Jan Casteels sent me a version that she had modified to
load via an InputStream instead of a FileInputSteam (as it had been
erroneously modified to do).  I used that, but
modified things relatively significantly and cleaned things up a bit.

I'm wondering if some people can test it the way they use it and
report any errors.  For instance, I know some of you put the assembler
file in WEB-INF/classes (or any package within) instead of WEB-INF or just specify the file in
the web.xml instead of the full relative path such as
WEB-INF/myassembler.xml.  Or, maybe you use "/WEB-INF/myassember.xml
instead of "WEB-INF/myassember.xml".  Maybe you use a fully qualified
path instead of a relative one such as "/usr/local/myassembler.xml" or
"C:\myassember.xml" or whatever.  I'd like to get reports back of
things not working with odd usages because I don't want to break
anyones app.

Note that when using multiple files you must be serving your webapp
from the filesystem and not out of a .war file and it will only work if you:

1.  don't specify the directory path and just say something like
myassember*.xml and make sure that any of those assembler files
exist in WEB-INF and nowhere else.  It assumes WEB-INF

2.  specify the full relative path such as "/WEB-INF/myassembler*.xml"
or "WEB-INF/myassembler*.xml" or whatever path relative to the webapp.

3.  specify the fully qualified path to the file which can be anywhere
on the filesystem.


I plan to try to work on that because I think I can get a list of
files from the servlet api without doing File IO which would be ideal!

Thanks!

Jake


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 Jacob                          mailto:[email protected]