This discussion was never really meant as a bug report or feature
request, but it's always good to look at improving whats out there.
Such a provider might be nice and I was thinking of something like that.
Perhaps I can pick this up as my first GBean?
On 10/24/05, David Jencks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Oct 23, 2005, at 11:32 PM, Barry van Someren wrote:
>
> > David,
> >
> > My experience with persistance in webapps has been with using
> > databases.
> > I recently ran into a JSP based Wiki that uses flat files (most likely
> > in the working directory) to persist data.
> >
> > Now I remember that back at my old company we used Tomcat for a
> > project and it would let you add files to the working directory that
> > would persist between runs.
> > When you used JBoss, it wouldn't (and I reasoned that it's fair from a
> > security point of view)
> > So I'm kind of asking how Geronimo handles this and what is the best
> > way of persisting if you insist on flat files.
>
> Well, I would avoid having your application save anything in its own
> unpacked directory at all costs: this is just asking for trouble, for
> instance, when you deploy the next upgrade :-).
>
> I recommend creating a subdirectory under var (e.g. var/myAppData).
> Unfortunately AFAIK finding this at runtime is a bit involved.
>
> private static final ObjectName SERVER_INFO =
> ObjectName.getInstance("geronimo.server:
> J2EEApplication=null,J2EEModule=org/apache/geronimo/
> System,J2EEServer=geronimo,j2eeType=GBean,name=ServerInfo");
>
> Kernel kernel = KernelRegistry.getSingleKernel();
> File dir = (FIle)kernel.invoke(SERVER_INFO, "resolve", new Object[]
> {"var/myAppData"}, new String[] {String.class.getName()});
>
> There might be an easier way to get this but I don't know what it is.
>
> It would be nice to provide a better way :-) Perhaps we could write a
> URLHandler that would resolve for us? serverinfo://var/myAppData Any
> other ideas?
>
> thanks
> david jencks
>
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > Barry
> >
> >
> > On 10/24/05, David Jencks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Oct 23, 2005, at 1:16 PM, Barry van Someren wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi there,
> >>>
> >>> The deploy instructions show how to deploy WAR's only deals with
> >>> packed WAR's.
> >>> Can you also deploy exploded WAR's in Geronimo (just like you can do
> >>> with Tomcat)?
> >>
> >> I think so. Note that any war or ear with a war inside will get
> >> unpacked into the config-store. I think if you modify jsps or static
> >> content there the changes will get picked up.
> >>
> >> We've had a plan for a while to make it possible to deploy a war so
> >> that jsps and static content are picked up from the original source
> >> location rather than a deployed copy. This would let you work on your
> >> jsps in your IDE in the location your SCM system knows about yet see
> >> the changes immediately. I'm not sure if anyone has had the time to
> >> expose this functionality yet. I would think this would be more
> >> useful
> >> than an "unpacked war" deploy feature.
> >>
> >>> And what about creating flat files? (writing in the deployed/work
> >>> directory)
> >>
> >> Could you explain what you have in mind here in more detail?
> >>
> >>> I'm trying out some open source projects to see how well they work
> >>> under Geronimo (to add to the samples matrix)
> >>
> >> Great!
> >>> I'm only learning here, sorry ;-)
> >>
> >> Well, hopefully I'm learning here too :-)
> >>
> >> thanks
> >> david jencks
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Greets,
> >>>
> >>> Barry
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >
>
>
