Re: [Springframework-developer] Spring/Geronimo

[Nadeem B. <na...@ea...>]

This is really great.=20

A quick question, how would that affect sping's JMX support.=20

On =E9=87=91, 2004-07-09 at 09:33 +0100, Rod Johnson wrote:
> All
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> I recently met up with James Strachan, to discuss Spring/Geronimo
> integration, among other things. Btw James has recently joined us as a
> Spring developer--he's a great addition to our team!
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> Spring/Geronimo integration is an exciting prospect, and we should
> prioritize anything we need to do towards it.
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> The Geronimo team plan to give Spring a deployment unit, supported in
> Geronimo like an EJB Jar file etc. James has been working on
> this. This involves (a) Spring having a deployment unit that Geronimo
> recognizes and gives its own class loader; (b) Geronimo trying to expose
> Spring beans via JMX.
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> So we need to define a Spring deployment unit. This should presumably be =
a
> JAR that contains:
> - application classes
> - one or more XML files
> - manifest giving location and order of XML files
> - manifest classpath expressing dependencies as normal
> - ? some mechanism for indicating dependencies, such as DataSources. It
> would be good to be able to fail fast, rather than when the app tries to
> start up.
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> James is happy to implement support in Geronimo for any definition format=
 we
> choose. Let's start thinking! We can no doubt leverage such a deployment
> unit outside Geronimo also...
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> Geronimo will ship the Spring binaries itself. And it uses CGLIB heavily =
and
> (I assume) Commons Logging/Log4j. So it would be nice to be able to drop =
in
> a Spring deployment unit and just have it start up.
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> There may also be integration possibilities with transaction
> management--getting access to lower-level details of transaction manageme=
nt
> than is available via JTA. I've opened a discussion on this with Jeremy
> Boynes.
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> Rgds
> Rod
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