David/Scott, I like this solution... it is MUCH cleaner codewise than trying to deal with the various application servers/environments. I'll give it a try sometime tomorrow.
A few questions for the uninformed: - I am assuming that the various portlet apps would never actually invoke the JetspeedContainerServlet... is that right? If so, perhaps it would be better to use a listener/ServletContextListener hook: this might be easier to infuse in the web.xml. - All of this works because Jetspeed-commons resides in a shared class loader, right? Is that functionality part of the Servlet Container spec... must be, no? - Are you imagining this as strictly a build time tool or are you thinking we could encorporate the logic in the deploy-tool to the existing File based PAM and deploy complete war files into webapps at runtime? I will ponder more while I get some sleep... Randy -----Original Message----- From: David Sean Taylor To: Jetspeed Developers List Sent: 1/18/05 1:55 PM Subject: JS2 deployment Randy, Since you are working on deployment issues, thought I share this with you. We (Scott and I) would like to consider a new (old) method to deployment. This method would hook into the servlet init, and register the portlet application to Jetspeed during servlet initialization. If you set the app to init at startup, then your PA will get registered during app server startup. This means that we will no longer need specific code for application deployment to each app server. In theory, this may solve our race condition issues. Start with a look at the JetspeedContainerServlet in the commons directory. It has a "registerAtInit" init parameter. I added this functionality a while back as a solution to register with Jetspeed during servlet init - so that we don't have to worry about deployment issues specific to app servers. In the long run the current method won out, but we are now reconsidering this method. Finally, there is also a command line utility for registering portlet applications. See the deploy-tool component, and the uberjar goal Give it a spin and let us know what you think, -- David Sean Taylor Bluesunrise Software [EMAIL PROTECTED] [office] +01 707 773-4646 [mobile] +01 707 529 9194 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
