Hi Stephen, Yeah, the problem is that I want each .jar Service to be detected dynamically without each .jar being explicitly listed on the CLASSPATH, or anywhere for that matter. I was wondering if n-1 number of .jar Services could be deployed and detected on startup. As I mentioned earlier I have managed to detect .jar using a standalone application but I want it to be a dynamic as possible in the deployed environment. Am I being greedy here do you think?
Thanks for the link... does this not suggest that what I'm trying to do *is* possible? Snippet from link supplied under the "Class Loader Definitions" paragraph. WebappX - A class loader is created for each web application that is deployed in a single Tomcat 4 instance. All unpacked classes and resources in the /WEB-INF/classes directory of your web application archive, plus classes and resources in JAR files under the /WEB-INF/lib directory of your web application archive, are made visible to the containing web application, but to no others. Cheers, Daire -----Original Message----- From: Stephen Westbom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 October 2003 15:09 To: Jakarta Commons Users List Subject: Re: Discovering .jars in .war You really will want to be in the system classpath for the service to work. --- "Daire Treanor (CAPE)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > Could someone please tell me if is it possible to use > org.apache.commons.discovery.tools.Service to discover one or more services > that are of a given type and are deployed in a .war file in Tomcat. Each > service is autonomous and is stored in a .jar file as per the JDK1.3 > 'Service Provider' specification. ( > http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/guide/jar/jar.html ). It is possible to > discover these services using this method in a standalone application but > when they are deployed in a .war they are not detected when Tomcat is > started. Has anyone had any experience in this area and able to give me some > tips. > Regards, > Daire > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears http://launch.yahoo.com/promos/britneyspears/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
