Posted by
Andrew Sykes on
May 07, 2006; 4:45pm
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Dev-OFBiz-Boot-Refactor-tp167866p167870.html
Jacques,
On #2, It's worth re-reading David's comments...
"Some app servers, like Weblogic, do have proprietary extensions to add
to the shared classpath inside an EAR. For others you can add to the
global classpath to get that effect. To really annoying ones, like
Geronimo 1.0 and Tomcat, you have to copy the jar files and other
classpath resources into their directories... Say good-bye to in-place
deployment ladies and gents and welcome to the hellish world of
wondering why your changes don't seem to be doing anything..."
This really can be VERY painful, especially in Windows where for some
reason known only to the OS a lock would be maintained on a random jar
file, so even though you think you've overwritten it, still nothing
happens!
OFBiz2.0 used ant tasks to copy the jars into Tomcat, it really was
horrible!
2.1 embedded Mortbay's Jetty, and suddenly life was a whole lot easier!
As well as that, it adds quite a bit of time onto the build script if
it's shifting files around, which gets quite frustrating after 100
restarts!!!
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Kind Regards
Andrew Sykes <
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Sykes Development Ltd
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