[Webmacro-devel] Solution to the context/classpath problem?

[Marc P. <ma...@an...>]

I'm off home now from work but I just had an idea I need to get down...

The problem with both the Spring view implementation for WM and the WM JSP
Taglib is that they can only access the ServletContext, and all the
methods to access individual servlets are deprecated. Therefore we cannot
be sure we can get to the servlets' classloader.

However... we can access context attributes. So we could define a special
WM context attribute such as "webmacro.template.classloader" - and anybody
who wants to use these the taglib or Spring view can just make their
servlet set this context attribute at startup to the servlet's ClassLoader.

I can then make ServletContextBroker look for this magic value and use it
if  it is found, or default to the classloader that loaded WM if not.

What do you think?

Cheers