RE: Update on Unpacked WARs

I'm only personally familiar with Tomcat, Resin and WebSphere.

There are servlet containers that do not have the file system concept? Could
you point me to some information? I see this thread started with JBoss in
the title, which I'm looking at now.

Sincerely,

~akb

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of
> Anthony Eden
> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 5:15 PM
> To: jpublish-developer
> Subject: Re: [JPublish-developer] 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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