bundle urls and 3rd party libraries
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Key: GERONIMO-5744
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-5744
Project: Geronimo
Issue Type: Bug
Security Level: public (Regular issues)
Components: deployment
Affects Versions: 3.0-M2
Reporter: Jarek Gawor
Resource lookup in Geronimo 3.0 returns "bundle" type of urls. However, a lot
of Geronimo code and a number of third party libraries assumes that urls
returned by resource lookup return "jar" or "file" type of urls. Because of
this difference a lot of applications might not work properly on Geronimo 3.0.
The Geronimo specific code has mostly been updated to use OSGi-friendly ways to
look for resources. However, we can't expect every 3rd party library to be
updated to be OSGi friendly. So we might need a solution that can return "jar"
or "file" urls that works with most libraries.
One possible solution is to use the BundleResourceClassLoader in the
xbean-bundleutils project (currently used in the OpenJPA plugin). That solution
could be enhanced with Equinox-specific extension (URLConverter service) that
can convert "bundle" urls directly into "jar" or "file" urls (using the jars in
its bundle cache).
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