Re: servlet annotations for URL mapping?
Rex Mottram wrote:
Mike Schilling wrote:
OK, a two-part solution:
1. The user needs to create a text file servletClasses.txt which
contains the names of all of their servlet classes, one per line,
and stick it in their jar at the top level.
2. Your redirector servlet's init(0 method can load the resource
/servletClasses.txt , load these classes via reflection, and check
their annotations for deployment information. If classes are
missing or ther deployment information is missing, incorrect, or
inconsistent, you can issue helpful and instructive error messages.
In fact, since Tomcat implements getResources() correctly (many
containers do not, for some reason), the users can, if they want,
deploy as many jars containing servlets as they like, with each jar
described by its own servletClasses.txt file.
Interesting idea, I will look into it (though I do not want to be
wedded to Tomcat).
In case I wasn't clear, the general idea will work in any servlet
container. It's only the multiple independent jars that won't,
because you'd need getResources() (as opposed to getResource()) to
find all of the text files.
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