Re: [Springframework-developer] Spring/Geronimo

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

On 9 Jul 2004, at 14:09, Dmitriy Kopylenko wrote:
> >Talking with David Blevins & Dain from Geronimo at JavaOne they were 
> lamenting on this nested-jar stuff, where it might be nice to have a 
> real simple deployment unit - maybe >just called 'jar' or something - 
> SPAR? for SPring ARchive? :).  Anyways the jar could look something 
> like...
>
>>
>> /META-INF/
>>     applicationContext.xml (or spring.xml)
>> /APP-INF/
>>     lib/
>>     commons-logging.jar
>>     someOtherRequiredJar.jar
>> com/foo/MyClass.class
>> ...
>>
>> i.e. we could include dependent jars inside the deployment unit in a 
>> special directory, along with any other resources & configurations - 
>> then we could just drop this jar in a directory. Or we could just use 
>> an unpacked directory version of this jar as well.
>
>
> SPAR sounds cool ;-)

:)


> So the structure of the unit would look like this:
>
> /META-INF/
>    applicationContext.xml (or spring.xml)
> /APP-INF/
>    lib/
>    commons-logging.jar
>    someOtherRequiredJar.jar
>    applicationClasses.jar

Was thinking you'd include your code as just .class files inside the 
spar, only including child jars for dependent libraries. i.e. lets 
minimise unnecessary jar-ing up if we can.



> /WEB-INF/?
>     html resources?
>     jsp?
>     lib/
>        some.properties?
>         other servlet classpath resources?

Could do - though if you want WEB-INF stuff you could just use a WAR. 
(Though there's no reason why we can't have special files which 
Geronimo knows to look for in WARs for Spring applicationContext.xml 
etc.

James
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