[jboss-dev] JBossWeb as foundation for OSGi HttpService

[Adrian Brock]

On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 13:14 +0100, Thomas Diesler wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I trying to optimize the JBoss OSGi HttpService integration with 
> JBossWeb. Currently this generates JBossWebMetaData in memory and 
> deploys that through the MainDeployer.

Why? More re-inventing the wheel?

It should be upto the jbossweb team whether they produce an osgi bundle
for standalone usage.

I could understand it if you were trying to implement the HTTPService
on top of JBossAS's TomcatService.

We already agreed along time ago that JBoss would provide a core
OSGi implementation/facade on top of the Microntainer/Deployers 
that's where we should be putting our resources.

For the compendium (where it is not duplicated by JBossAS services
where we can provide a facade) we should work with other open source
OSGi implementations and share the implementations.

> 
> What I am looking for however is an embedded Http server that I can use 
> in the OSGi service. Most other HttpService implementations use Jetty 
> for that reason.
> 
> Is it possible to use JBossWeb embedded and setup Http endpoints through 
> an API?
> 

Of course it is possible, what do you think the jbossas/tomcat 
project does?

If you really want to do it from scratch 
(I did it once to prove you could bootstrap Tomcat using the MC 
inside a testcase) you'll find it very
annoying because it tends to just throw NPEs (and even worse eat 
error messages) if you get the api usage wrong.

> cheers
> -thomas
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