[Springframework-developer] Integrating Spring into Geronimo

[<jas...@ma...>]

Dion let the cat out of the bag...

http://www.almaer.com/blog/archives/000246.html

so I thought I'd best actually commit the code. Warning though I've not 
tested it yet  - we need an integration test to make sure this works & 
we handle all the lifecycle methods properly :)

Basically we've a GBean for Geronimo so that any existing spring XML 
config file can be slurped up & turned into beans and managed in a JSR 
77/88 way & hot deployed - so Geronimo can hot deploy arbitrary Spring 
containers within the core J2EE container - all managed in the same 
stack as web apps, web containers, EJB containers etc. We should also 
be able to JMX-ifiy all the beans as they are created into the JSR 
77/88 management stack.

At JavaOne we've discussed maybe having a special naming convention, 
say putting spring.xml inside META-INF/ or something, so that you can 
put your code in a regular jar with the XML deployment descriptor then 
drop it in a directory or whatnot and Geronimo could auo-detect it & 
use the SpringGBean to deploy it.

Its still early days but hopefully once this is sorted out & working, 
developers can spend their time in development mode just using Spring 
by itself, then at any point in time drop their jar into Geronimo (or 
build a deployment binary of Geronimo) and hey presto their apps 
running inside a J2EE container.

Going forward we should be able to further increase the functionality 
of the SpringGBean to closer integrate the two projects so that the 
Spring POJOs can take better, more efficient & easier use of the J2EE 
services in Geronimo (transactions, security, remoting, pooling, 
clustering etc).

Enjoy!

James
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