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Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 13:03:05 -0400
From: Ted Husted <husted@apache.org>
Organization: Apache Software Foundation - Jakarta Project
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Subject: Re: cvs commit:
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 ChainServlet.java
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craigmcc@apache.org wrote:
>   Add ChainListener as an alternative configuration mechanism for
>   Servlet 2.3 or later systems (it takes advantage of the getResourcePaths()
>   method on ServletContext to scan all JAR files in "/WEB-INF/lib" for
>   "META-INF/chain-config.xml" resources, and loads them automatically).

I had trouble with the JAR block.

         // Parse the resources in any embedded JAR files
         Set jars = context.getResourcePaths("/WEB-INF/lib");
	...

It tossed an exception for JARs that did not have a 
META-INF/chain-config.xml resource to parse. I commented it this out, 
and it otherwise dropped in as a replacement for the ChainServlet. 
Loading multiple comma-delimited configs worked find too.

Using the META-INF to signal which JARs to scan is a very cool idea, but 
people still might want to cite the files to load the old-fashioned way. 
  So, for discussion purposes, I did a ChainListener2 that allows the 
Chain configurations to be specified from a web resource, or a 
classloader resource, or both. Of course, we could also do the JAR 
scanning as well.

-Ted.


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