[jira] Commented: (AMQNET-262) NMS cannot be used if installed in the GAC

["Daniel Ellis (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Daniel Ellis commented on AMQNET-262:
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I first tried Assembly.Load but that failed because it will not load a file from the GAC unless the full assembly name is specified (name, version, key).  LoadWithPartialName did load the assembly from the GAC.  However, I failed to notice it was deprecated.  A quick look finds this blog entry which explains their reasoning: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/suzcook/archive/2003/05/30/57159.aspx

So either way, currently there is not a suitable solution for this, because ultimately if using the GAC, we must specify the exact version that is required, in order to handle different apps putting different versions of NMS in the GAC.

I can think of two solutions:-

1. Specify the full assembly name in the NMS config file.
2. Specify the full assembly name in the built in list of known assemblies.

And I think I would prefer option 2, because it is actually specifying which versions of NMS connectors are compatible with the core NMS interface.

E.g.  Apache.NMS 1.3.0.0 would be compatible with Apache.NMS.ActiveMQ 1.3.0.0 only.

This would mean that minor fixes should not change the "AssemblyVersion", but it would be fine to update the "AssemblyFileVersion".

> NMS cannot be used if installed in the GAC
> ------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: AMQNET-262
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/activemq/browse/AMQNET-262
>             Project: ActiveMQ .Net
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: NMS
>    Affects Versions: 1.3.0
>         Environment: Windows .NET 2.0
>            Reporter: Daniel Ellis
>            Assignee: Jim Gomes
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 1.4.0
>
>         Attachments: NMS GAC.patch
>
>          Time Spent: 45 minutes
>  Remaining Estimate: 0 minutes
>
> If you install {{Apache.NMS.dll}} and {{Apache.NMS.ActiveMQ.dll}} in the GAC then NMS is not able to load {{Apache.NMS.ActiveMQ.dll}}.
> {{NMSConnectionFactory.cs}} is storing the pre-defined connection factories in _schemaProviderFactoryMap_, but is storing the DLL file names to locate the assemblies.
> One solution would be to store the _AssemblyQualifiedName_ instead and leave the assembly loading to the system.

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