[jira] [Commented] (GERONIMO-5744) bundle urls and 3rd party libraries

["Jarek Gawor (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Jarek Gawor commented on GERONIMO-5744:
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I committed the patch with some additional changes / simplifications to trunk in revision 1138728. By default the Equinox-specific classloader is not enabled. It can be enabled by setting the "org.apache.geronimo.equinox.useURLClassLoader" system property to "true". We can change this default in the future after a bit more testing.



> bundle urls and 3rd party libraries
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>                 Key: GERONIMO-5744
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-5744
>             Project: Geronimo
>          Issue Type: Bug
>      Security Level: public(Regular issues) 
>          Components: deployment
>    Affects Versions: 3.0-M2
>            Reporter: Jarek Gawor
>         Attachments: GERONIMO-5744.patch
>
>
> Resource lookup in Geronimo 3.0 returns "bundle" type of urls. However, a lot of Geronimo code and a number of third party libraries assumes that urls returned by resource lookup return "jar" or "file" type of urls. Because of this difference a lot of applications might not work properly on Geronimo 3.0. The Geronimo specific code has mostly been updated to use OSGi-friendly ways to look for resources. However, we can't expect every 3rd party library to be updated to be OSGi friendly. So we might need a solution that can return "jar" or "file" urls that works with most libraries.
> One possible solution is to use the BundleResourceClassLoader in the xbean-bundleutils project (currently used in the OpenJPA plugin). That solution could be enhanced with Equinox-specific extension (URLConverter service) that can convert "bundle" urls directly into "jar" or "file" urls (using the jars in its bundle cache).

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