A WAB with only static content does not suffice?
Kind regards,
Peter Kriens
On 12 jan. 2012, at 09:27, Andreas Klotz wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> we have built a modular application platform using OSGi.
> To us it is important not only to build modules in the
> service layer but also in the GUI layer.
>
> Our GUI is a web application and we decided to deploy
> it as a WAB. We are using ZK Ria as web application framework.
> Everything works fine with regard to reference other
> bundles from our WAB up to the controller layer. But
> when it comes to serve static resources from the WAB
> we are not very happy with our solution.
>
> We would like to separate the static resources also
> in bundles analogue to the modularization of the business
> and controller layer. But WAB does only support loading
> resources from the WAB itself and its fragment bundles.
> So for every business module we build a fragment bundle
> with its appendant resources such as HTML, CSS, JPGs ...
>
> But using fragments leads to loosing dynamic since we
> cannot activate/deactivate the fragments. But we would
> like to activate/deactivate, install/uninstall modules
> at run time.
>
> Servlet specification 3.0 allows loading of resources
> from jar files in WEB-INF/lib if they are located
> in META-INF/resources inside the jar. Since imported
> packages of the WAB are (nearly) treated like jars in WEB-INF/lib
> in a servlet container I was wondering if I can import
> META-INF/resources from another bundle and load resources
> from it. Of course one has to use a servlet 3.0 conform
> container.
>
> I have not found anything about this topic in the WAB
> spec. Some experiments with Gemini 2.0 were not successful.
> I have read that GlassFish supports this approach.
>
> Should the WAB spec cover this topic? Or is it up to
> the implementers such as Gemini or PAX web to deal
> with it? Or is there another solution for loading
> static resources from modules?
>
> Best regards,
> Andreas Klotz
>
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