Re: How to call an external class from a webapp (i.e. - implement a plugin)

2010-07-08 Thread Goren Il
PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Goren, On 7/6/2010 10:51 AM, Goren Il wrote: There are 2 issues (not in order of priority): 1. The steps are not straight forward, and may cause the system to stop working (the customer should change the WAR suffix to "zip", open it, add the file

How to implement a webapp class loader

2010-07-08 Thread Goren Il
I would like to implement my on webapp class loader, that will look for jars in specific places (to be defined in the configuration). I would like to inherit the behavior of the default class loader of the webapp, so I can not use a regular ClassLoader. I considered inheriting from WebappClass

How to implement a webapp class loader

2010-07-07 Thread Goren Il
I would like to implement my on webapp class loader, that will look for jars in specific places (to be defined in the configuration). I would like to inherit the behavior of the default class loader of the webapp, so I can not start use a regular ClassLoader. I considered inheriting from Webap

Re: How to call an external class from a webapp (i.e. - implement a plugin)

2010-07-06 Thread Goren Il
n terms of performance, but if there is no other possibility - this is what we shall do. Thanks On 06-Jul-10 18:15, Caldarale, Charles R wrote: From: Goren Il [mailto:gore...@hotmail.com] Subject: Re: How to call an external class from a webapp (i.e. - implement a plugin) Aren't there oth

Re: How to call an external class from a webapp (i.e. - implement a plugin)

2010-07-06 Thread Goren Il
uot; with a particular web app? -----Original Message- From: Goren Il [mailto:gore...@hotmail.com] Sent: Monday, July 05, 2010 2:44 AM To: users@tomcat.apache.org Subject: How to call an external class from a webapp (i.e. - implement a plugin) I would like my webapp to call an external class, which will

How to call an external class from a webapp (i.e. - implement a plugin)

2010-07-05 Thread Goren Il
I would like my webapp to call an external class, which will be provided (as a name) in an XML file at run time. The external class will be developed by 3rd party, and might include additional JARs. I will refer to the external class and JARs as the "plugin". My webapp is provided as a WAR, so