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On 2/6/12 6:48 AM, Pid wrote: > On 06/02/2012 11:08, Violeta Georgieva wrote: >>> I was going to ask you why you were using it! So is your >>> interest purely academic? >> I have existing applications that are moving to Tomcat from >> another application server. As "dependencies on extensions" is a >> standard mechanism for shared libraries, they use it in order to >> be independent from the application servers. > > I see - in my experience this mechanism is rarely used in web > applications. Interesting. Yeah, I had never heard of it. Also, the whole metadata-scanning thing seems totally unnecessary: the webapp tries to load a class, and the ClassLoader figures it out. The fact that the metadata exists doesn't really help much. I haven't looked at the validation code, though, so it's possible that the container is supposed to refuse to deploy the webapp if an appropriate extension isn't available. That obviously wasn't happening in Violeta's case because the deployment succeeded but then she got a CNFE. - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.17 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk8wGqYACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PAxhQCfQ2NBq+vrLxIREvKp8mFROnw5 mOUAn194PtKwYxvxKv1BJrTAkmnCksfu =X6VY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
