On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 11:55 PM, Don Brown <mr...@twdata.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 2:07 AM, Karl Pauls <karlpa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> What won't work is URLStreamHandlerServices registered inside the
>> framework of the version not being the first. Is that actually
>> something you need? I can look into it if you do (I think I can see a
>> potential workaround) but It isn't worth it if you don't have bundles
>> that expose URLStreamHandlerServices in the first place...
>
> Well, I know we don't use that explicitly and if Spring DM doesn't
> either, we are probably in good shape.  Thanks for the help,

Spring DM only needs the bundle: protocol so you should be good.
Otherwise let me know.

regards,

Karl

> Don
>
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> Karl
>>
>>> Don
>>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 10:14 PM, Karl Pauls <karlpa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hm, on second thought we still have an issue when several versions of
>>>> felix are running inside the same jvm. I believe that with felix 2.0.2
>>>> or 1.2 we should do the right thing for the bundle: protocol (which is
>>>> what you need iirc) but we probably wont be able to find
>>>> URLStreamHandlerServices from the framework that was registered last.
>>>> I'm working on a patch which should fix this issue at least if the
>>>> next version of felix is started first.
>>>>
>>>> Again, we just didn't think about this case until recently but its on
>>>> the radar now and I will make sure that we stay backwards compatible
>>>> starting with felix 2.0.2 from now on for sure.
>>>>
>>>> regards,
>>>>
>>>> Karl
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Karl Pauls <karlpa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Chris Kiehl <cki...@atlassian.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Hi everyone!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We ran into an issue with running two webapps with different versions of 
>>>>>> Felix (1.2.1 and 2.0.1) in the same VM. The symptom we see is that it 
>>>>>> can't find the the framework context as described in an existing issue 
>>>>>> (<http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-1834>). The problem was 
>>>>>> that the class name of the class loader that is used to detect the 
>>>>>> context changed between 1.2.1 and 2.0. The committed fix only helps if 
>>>>>> the application which uses Felix 2.0 starts up first, because then the 
>>>>>> 2.0 version of URLHandlers is used. If the application with Felix 1.2 
>>>>>> starts up first you run into the same problem as before. So I patched 
>>>>>> Felix 1.2 as well to check against the class name of the Felix 2.0 class 
>>>>>> loader, which makes the applications apparently run fine, no matter in 
>>>>>> which order they start.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Even though it seems to work fine, I'm a bit worried that the Felix 2.0 
>>>>>> application is using the Felix 1.2 URLHandlers class and dependencies. 
>>>>>> Do you guys see any issues with that?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I don't know much about Felix, but wouldn't it be better to have a very 
>>>>>> small dispatching URLStreamHandlerFactory which chooses the actual 
>>>>>> URLStreamHandlerFactory to use based on the class loader (like it does 
>>>>>> for the context now). That would minimize the overlap of code between 
>>>>>> versions of Felix.
>>>>>
>>>>> Well, this should be fixed in felix 2.0.2. At least you can now run
>>>>> felix 2.0.2 and assuming it starts first, older versions of felix are
>>>>> not an issue. Furthermore, you can disable urlhandlers per framework
>>>>> so even if its the other way around, you can disable the urlhandlers
>>>>> for felix 1.2 and enable it for felix 2.0.2.
>>>>>
>>>>> Granted, it isn't optimal that we had this bug getting in but at least
>>>>> it should be fixed now.
>>>>>
>>>>> regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Karl
>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>> Chris
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Karl Pauls
>>>>> karlpa...@gmail.com
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Karl Pauls
>>>> karlpa...@gmail.com
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Karl Pauls
>> karlpa...@gmail.com
>>
>



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