[jbossseam-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Updated: (JBSEAM-1246) Make ServletContext available during startup

Thu Apr 10 22:49:05 EDT 2008

     [ http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBSEAM-1246?page=all ]

Christian Bauer updated JBSEAM-1246:
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    Summary: Make ServletContext available during startup  (was: Make pages.xml available during application startup)

I renamed this issue because what we really need is a way to access the ServletContext when the SeamListener starts up. Only at that time can you use getResourcePaths() and getResourceAsStream() to look for and process files in your deployment (which the Seam scanner does not cover). This is required to build internal registries in applications, e.g. "all names of directories in my view folder in /templates/".

The Initialization.java class currently has a private reference to that ServletContext we need, during startup. We need to expose this with an API, also without conflicting with the request-based ServletContexts.instance() API already present. 

> Make ServletContext available during startup
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>
>                 Key: JBSEAM-1246
>                 URL: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBSEAM-1246
>             Project: Seam
>          Issue Type: Feature Request
>          Components: Core
>    Affects Versions: 1.2.1.GA
>         Environment: Any
>            Reporter: Mike Quilleash
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> pages.xml will not be found by the resource loader when the Pages component is @Created during startup ie outside a JSF request.  One of my components that queries the Pages component is causing the component to be created and look for its pages outside a JSF request.
> The only resource lookup that can succeed for something in WEB-INF is the ExternalContext.getResource() but this is not available outside a JSF request. 
> Using ServletContext.getResource() will work instead however this is not portable to Portlets etc.

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