Hi, see comments below. Lin
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 5:48 AM, Rick McGuire <rick...@gmail.com> wrote: > The URL handler is a different stage of the processing. That gets involved > at the installation time of the bundle, and > causes a transform of a standard WAR into a WAB, which then gets processed > by the extender. Once the WAB has > been installed and started, that's when the WAB extender kicks in, and at > that point, there's no opportunity to > perform the transformation. I think Geronimo has full control when the bundle/war is installed and this can be triggered by geronimo's existing deployment mechanisms (such as hot deployment, command line deployer or admin console deployment). I kinda think it is best to do this type of geronimo specific conversion at the install time, because it would be too late if we do it after the bundle is resolved/started. The web extender defined by RFC 66 is something that we must implement, but we could do stuff beyond what is defined for the web extender. :) What I am proposing is to develop a geronimo url handler that can convert the war file into the geronimo plugin (or whatever artifact that can be deployed to geronimo's web server). For example, when a war file is installed, we can use the following as location identifier of BundleContext.install(String loc). webbundle:geronimo:file:///Users/linsun/test1.war?Web-ContextPath=/linsun This will invoke the webbundle url handler which will convert the war to a wab for Geronimo. Then it will invoke the geronimo url handler which will convert the wab to geronimo plugin (or whatever artifact that can be deployed to geronimo's web server). Then the bundle is installed and resolved. Then the web extender defined by rfc 66 kicks in and listens to the bundle events. > "Should" items are there for a reason and at least an attempt should be made > to satisfy the language of the specification. > If it turns out to be impossible, so be it, but the possibility of fully > implementing that needs to be made. Right i just want to point that out. :)
