[jira] [Created] (OFBIZ-9347) Loading standard web application

[Nicolas Malin (Jira)]

James Yong created OFBIZ-9347:
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             Summary: Loading standard web application
                 Key: OFBIZ-9347
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-9347
             Project: OFBiz
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: framework
    Affects Versions: Upcoming Release
            Reporter: James Yong
            Assignee: James Yong
            Priority: Minor
             Fix For: Upcoming Release


Not all libraries can be embedded and used via Java API.
Some, like CAS SSO, need to be loaded as a standard web application and access via REST API.

So we need to allow OFBiz to load standard web application where there is no controller.xml and the jar files residing in WEB-INF/lib folder.  

Proposing to add an attribute named 'type' to the 'webapp' tag at ofbiz-component.xml, i.e.
{code}
<webapp name="myapp"
        type="standard"  <--------------- new proposed attribute
        title="Myapp"
        server="myapp-server"
        location="webapp/myapp"
        mount-point="/myapp"/>
{code}

This new attribute will help to differentiate standard web applications from those in OFBiz, and allows Catalina Container to load them accordingly.

When type="standard", will load as standard web application.
When type is empty, load according to OFBiz way.

There are some discussions on this at https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/4d1b501c2ce6297ab0b41712b61c0fcb8881510512deaf380b49ab9d@%3Cdev.ofbiz.apache.org%3E



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