Hi All,
Hope all is well. I need some advice! :)
In my quest to avalonize and cocoonize our application, I've
come up against a problem.
From what I can see, it's not possible to add context key/values to
the cocoon context from a servlet subclass for thread safe components.
Threadsafe component instances are created by the ECM during
Cocoon's startup in CocoonServlet.init(). If one wants to modify
CocoonServlet.appContext in a servlet subclass (using values
from init-param's, etc) then CocoonServlet.init() has to be
called before the subclass does any work.
This means, thread safe components that implement Contextualizable
won't be able to find any context values they need.
What am I trying to do ? Store values in the Cocoon context that are
global across all components.
I've found several solutions:
1. make CocoonServlet.createCocoon() protected, allowing a
subclass to override it, accessing the appContext before the Cocoon
instance is created.
2. make it possible to defer the creation of the Cocoon
instance. eg. add an init-param 'create-cocoon-at-startup' which
will specify whether the Cocoon instance will be created in
CocoonServlet.init(), or at first request (or by a subclass).
This allows a subclass to add values to the cocoon context
during subclass.init().
3. incorporate Wolfram Eiserts Avalon scratchpad ContextUtility
class which allows one to specify a <context>..</context> tag
set in cocoon.xconf that automatically populates the Cocoon context
with globals. More info under
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=avalon-dev&m=101559574528413&w=2
4. any others ?
I've tried other combinations of solutions (eg. parent component
manager), but they all have other problematic issues. :(
I've implemented all 3 options, but are wondering what everyone
else thinks or if there is an easier way ?
Any thoughts ?
Cheers,
Marcus
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