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Amardeep Singh Jhajj updated OFBIZ-7073:
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    Attachment: OFBIZ-7073.patch

> Add WebSocket support in OFBiz
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>
>                 Key: OFBIZ-7073
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-7073
>             Project: OFBiz
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: framework
>    Affects Versions: Trunk
>            Reporter: Amardeep Singh Jhajj
>            Assignee: Amardeep Singh Jhajj
>             Fix For: Upcoming Branch
>
>         Attachments: OFBIZ-7073.patch, OFBIZ-7073.patch, 
> tomcat-embed-websocket-8.0.33.jar
>
>
> I tried to use websockets in OFBiz. I simply added tomcat-embed-websocket.jar 
> in catalina lib and created one webapp for websocket and also added server 
> endpoint class.
> It didn't work. After that, I tried the same thing with plain j2ee 
> application with embedded tomcat. It worked there.
> I researched on above issue in OFBiz and got the reason. Websockets 
> implementation need jar scanning enabled and it is currently disabled in 
> OFBiz. Below is the code snippet of disabling jar scan from 
> CatalinaContainer.java:
> {code}
> JarScanner jarScanner = context.getJarScanner();
> if (jarScanner instanceof StandardJarScanner) {
>     StandardJarScanner standardJarScanner = (StandardJarScanner) jarScanner;
>     standardJarScanner.setScanClassPath(false);
> }
> {code}
> Jar scanning enabling increase OFBiz server startup time upto couples of 
> minutes (in my case, it took approx 8 minutes), so we don't want this much of 
> startup time for OFBiz.
>  
> I got the following document where I found the reason why websocket is not 
> working if scanning disabled.
> https://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/HowTo/FasterStartUp
> Here tips are given to decrease the startup time. This tips also include 
> disabling of jar scanning. 
> We can say disabling jar scanning is right approach because if we enable it 
> then scanner will scan all the jars loaded in OFBiz startup that we don't 
> want.
> But, If we want websockets working then we have to enable jar scanning.
> For enabling jar scanning, we need below code:
> {code}
> standardJarScanner.setScanClassPath(true); // Will increase server startup 
> time.
> {code}
> Solution: We can add filter on jar scanning. It will allow only some kind of 
> jars only. For example: jars having websockets endpoints. I am attaching 
> patch for the same here.
> I added filter like if jar name string contains "discoverable" word then only 
> it will be considered for jar scan. We can change jar name of our jars using 
> build.xml to make it discoverable for jar scanning.
> For example: I have added my websocket endpoint class in 
> "specialpurpose/ecommerce/src" and changed the "name" property in build.xml 
> of ecommerce component from "ofbiz-ecommerce"
> to "ofbiz-ecommerce-discoverable". Here is the code snippet from build.xml:
> {code}
> <property name="name" value="ofbiz-ecommerce-discoverable"/>
> {code}
> This change will create the jar with name "ofbiz-ecommerce-discoverable.jar" 
> in "ecommerce/build/lib/".
> Now created jar will be scanned in jar scanner as its name contains 
> "discoverable" word in it.
> This change will not increase server start up time more than couple of 
> seconds (in my case, it just two seconds). So scanning time totally depends 
> on the list of jars scanned.
> Conclusion: We can use websocket support with the help of jar filters.
> I am also attaching the version 8.0.33 tomcat-embed-websocket.jar.



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