Just a note - as part of the overall repository stuff we have some utilities to get the merlin home location. This will be integrated into a new kernel embeddor so that you will not have to deal with this - it will just happen automatically. All of the existing embedded scenarios (cli, unit, servlet, etc. will need to be updated to use the new embeddor model).
Cheers, Steve.
Alexis Agahi wrote:
On Friday 07 November 2003 19:22, Filip Defoort wrote:
Hi gang,
I'm embedding merlin into a servlet -- all seems to work well, but there's a couple of remaining issues before everything is completely cleaned up:
1/ How do I get to the merlin application repository directory ? Right now, I'm using a parameter in the web.xml that basically hardcodes the repository.. Not very elegant, e.g. if I would distribute/commit the example into the sandbox, anybody checking it out would have to manually update that link.
<init-param>
<param-name>merlin.repository.dir</param-name>
<param-value>F:/home/filipdef/maven</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>maven.repo.local</param-name>
<param-value>F:/home/filipdef/maven</param-value>
</init-param>
there is no solution I guess.
At one point you will always be obliged to specify the repository directory.
(If this is really a prob you could use current system maven/merlin env properties)
take a look at
kernel/unit/src/java/org/apache/avalon/merlin/unit/DefaultEmbeddedKernel.java
2/ The merlin servlet is simply a wrapper that loads a component jar -- should I package that jar in the .war file or connect to a local/remote repository to get to the actual component.. Currently I'm doign the equally unelegant: <!-- ... web.xml .... --> <init-param> <param-name>block</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/lib/merlin-service-tutorial-1.0.jar</param-value> </init-param>
// .... MerlinServlet.java... String blockPath = getInitParameter( "block", "BLOCK-INF/block.xml" ); URL block = new File( home, blockPath ).toURL(); ContainmentModel root = m_kernel.getContainmentModel(); root.addContainmentModel( block, conf );
Anybody any thoughts/suggestions ?
Interesting... (I was just working on DefaultEmbeddedKernel.java to embed merlin in jboss (again))
Could you send me your MerlinServlet.java impl? I'll be happy to see in detail how you proceed.
Regards
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