To answer my own question (correctly I hope), This collapsed war (the EJB jars packaged within WAR) thing means for my simple wants, tapestry to pass a URL to a servlet which has access to the filesystem.
It's as simple as that - the servlet is the "gateway" to the filesystem. Cheers Chris On 25/05/2012, at 11:23 AM, Chris Mylonas wrote: > Hi Tapestry Users, > > In April there was a thread about AssetFactory help [1] and it mentioned that > the J2EE spec states that you should not read or write to the file system. > Reading up on the collapsed ear from openejb's website [2] they say (sic) > "not quite j2ee but truly jee6". > > Although openejb is referencing class loading, where would I find info about > whether jee6 allows reading/writing to local filesystem? > It's a handy bad habit I'd like to be able to access - I know it's something > I was doing back in early 2000s with tomcat 5 unknowingly being a badass. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated, > Chris > > > > [1] = > http://tapestry.1045711.n5.nabble.com/File-System-Asset-Factory-help-needed-and-petition-wanted-td5641308.html > [2] = https://openejb.apache.org/collapsed-ear.html
