It occurred to me that it would be useful to be able to populate the sca-contributions directory by uploading contribution jars onto it. So I added a servlet to let contributions be uploaded, under r561473.
On 7/12/07, ant elder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As part of looking at TUSCANY-1379 I've added a new webapp distribution > module that supports using multiple SCA contribution jars and hot update > of > those jars so you can modify the contribution jar and the changes are > picked > up without having to restart the webapp. Its not in the build but you can > manually build distribution/webapp (or there's a prebuilt war I'm using at > http://people.apache.org/~antelder/tuscany/tuscany.war). Its also got a > very > trivial web interface that shows the current active components, go to: > http://localhost:8080/tuscany/. To use it you just drop your SCA > contribution jar's into the sca-contributions folder within the webapp and > they should get picked up and installed right away, eg the Tuscany > sample-calculator.jar or helloworld-ws-service.jar work. Once installed > you > can use something like winzip to edit the contents of the jar's and the > changes should also get picked up. > > Playing around with this highlights lots of problems, there's TODOs around > the code about some of them, but one issue is the way the runtime and > contribution service currently uses a single class loader so if you try to > update and stop/start a single component or contribution the changes don't > get picked without restarting the entire SCA domain to use a new class > loader. I wondered if this class loader issue is something that might > already be being looked at with all the other work going on right now in > this area? > > ...ant >
