RE: Update on Unpacked WARs

As an alternative, can you detect that a server is loading JPublishServlet
from the WAR and unpack the WAR yourself? I have not worked with a container
that runs WebApps out of the WAR so have no idea if that is feasible.

~akb


> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of
> Anthony Eden
> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 2:15 PM
> To: jpublish-developer
> Subject: [JPublish-developer] Update on Unpacked WARs
>
>
> I have spent most of the morning looking at what it will take for
> JPublish to support execution in unpacked WARs.  Unfortunately
> the list of changes is long and the results are problematic at best.
>
>  - All managers will need new implementations that pull data from
> the ServletContext.
>  - Some scripting languages will not work.  My initial testing
> indicates that of Jython, JavaScript and BeanShell, only
> BeanShell properly loads classes using the context class loader.
>  - Any calls to SiteContext.getRoot() or any other File based
> methods will fail.
>
> I am sure there are many other changes as well.  The question I
> have is that given the scope of this change is it really worth
> the effort?  How many of you can not live without the ability to
> run JPublish in an unexpanded WAR?
>
> Sincerely,
> Anthony Eden
>
>
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