Re: Update on Unpacked WARs

Unfortunately I don't think that is a viable solution.  In containers which load data from a WAR they can completely remove the concept of a file system.

-Anthony

Kevin Baynes wrote:
> 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-----
>>From: [email protected]
>>[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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