> To me, a webapp adds "entries" (aka Servlet) to menus (aka url patterns) > from a static file inside the war (web.xml). If it was not possible in 4 > years to solve this problem in Eclipse, how will it be possible for > Tomcat? More and more code is supporting the dynamic life cycle model because it is not that hard and the Eclipse people like it. However, you should realize that there is a very diverse community out there. Only recently is OSGi on their radar.
Providing a mechanism to get servlets registered from the web.xml are available. The OPS 4J guys are providing tools and bundles: http://wiki.ops4j.org/confluence/display/ops4j/Pax+Web+Extender. It is actually not that hard. However, if a web app creates resources, it also needs cleanup. Much of the cleanup can be done on the server side because you can get an event when a bundle stops. I.e. in the OSGi Http Service, it is required to automatically unregister a servlet when a bundle is stopped. In some cases, the cleanup must be performed by the web app itself. In those case, the web app must implement some code that is called when the bundle is stopped. This may all sound scary and complex, but it is surprisingly simple when you try it out because it feels very natural in an OSGi environment. Programming models like Spring DM, iPOJO, DS, etc. can further help to support this model while not showing up in any Java code. Kind regards, Peter Kriens Damien Bonvillain wrote: > > pkriens wrote: >>> Just my 2c: Eclipse, OSGified since 3.2, still doesn't fully support >>> updates without a JVM restart; and they have full control about the >>> whole aspects. >> Unfortunately there are tens of thousands of plugin writers out there >> that >> are not aware of the dynamics. Eclipse migrated to OSGi 4 years ago and >> did >> some incredible open heart surgery on their runtime engine to support >> OSGi. >> It was quite impressive how they replace their engine with an OSGi based >> version while existing plugins kept working. However, none of the >> existing >> code was ready for the consequences of dynamics. Plugins could add >> entries >> to menu's but this information came from a static file in the plugin, so >> there was no facility to remove this information. > > To me, a webapp adds "entries" (aka Servlet) to menus (aka url patterns) > from a static file inside the war (web.xml). If it was not possible in 4 > years to solve this problem in Eclipse, how will it be possible for > Tomcat? > > Damien > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Osgifing-Tomcat-tp16830131p16936517.html Sent from the Tomcat - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
