Brad Sisk Wrote:
>I appreciate your suggestion, Ralph. But if I'm not mistaken, it looks
>like you've posted a solution for a standalone Java app-not the Spring
>approach to bean instantiation. For example, your solution directly
>instantiates FtpServer the way a main() method would-rather than using
>the Spring BeanFactory or ApplicationContext approach.
>As I originally posted, I already know how to launch FTPServer using
>Java. That's not what I'm asking about. My question was about how one
>does the same thing in a deployed Spring application. Spring. In
>Spring, you are not supposed to directly instantiate any object-but
>rather let Spring instantiate them by calling Spring's BeanFactory
>methods.
>However, for the BeanFactory instantiation to work, one has to have the
>proper XML configuration file written. THIS is the question I was
>asking: What is the XML I have to write to force Spring to
>automatically call FtpServer.start()?
>See, I need to know how to make SPRING call server.start()---using XML.
>I 'm not asking how to write a Java method call.
Maybe this will help somebody else and maybe somebody has a better way
so I figured I'd post. I essentially have 2 Spring XML configs in the
/WEB-INF directory of my war file (yes this is for a Spring app
deployed to Tomcat) Note my FtpWrapper class has no main method at all
- it's just a wrapper - that calls init - I'm sure there may be a more
elegant way but sometimes good enough is better. :)
The 1st config file in WEB-INF is spring-config.xml that contains all
my web apps beans configs and lastly:
[snip]
<!-- ftpserver/ftplet config -->
<bean id="serverTest" class="my.ftp.FtpWrapper" destroy-method="destroy">
<property name="FTPServer" ref="myFtpServer" />
</bean>
The 2nd config file in /WEB-INF I have is called config-ftplets.xml -
it should look familiar. :)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans:beans xmlns="http://mina.apache.org/ftpserver/spring/v1";
xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans";
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd
http://mina.apache.org/ftpserver/spring/v1
http://mina.apache.org/ftpserver/ftpserver-1.0.xsd
">
<server id="myFtpServer">
<listeners>
<nio-listener name="default" port="3939">
</nio-listener>
</listeners>
<ftplets>
<ftplet name="myFtplet">
<beans:bean class="my.ftp.FtpFtplet">
</beans:bean>
</ftplet>
</ftplets>
<file-user-manager file="/WEB-INF/ftp.properties" />
</server>
</beans:beans>
Note: I renamed users.properties to ftp.properties and pointed it to
WEB-INF where it resides.
Oh yeah, since you'll also need to modify your web.xml to point to
both configs like so:
<!-- Spring App Context -->
<context-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>
/WEB-INF/spring-config.xml
/WEB-INF/config-ftplets.xml
</param-value>
</context-param>
If anybody has any alternate/better ideas on getting the server
started in Spring - in Tomcat - please post! Getting the Spring config
sorted out was not at all easy - our resident Spring guru helped me a
great deal! ;)
