[Dev] Jetty 6 and stuff

[Ryan Kruse]

Nice job Brett.  I'll mark that 99% complete then.

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From: dev-bounces at ziptie.org [mailto:dev-bounces at ziptie.org] On Behalf Of Brett Wooldridge
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 11:43 PM
To: ZipTie Development List
Subject: [Dev] Jetty 6 and stuff

ZipTie is now running on Jetty 6.  While the surgery was successful, the patient is being kept for observation.

There were, as expected, a lot of changes associated with this upgrade.  Please update all projects including the TargetPlatform.  You will need to refresh your PDE target platform in Eclipse in order to resolve the red "x" you will get on projects if you don't.

You will also need this additional new project:

org.ziptie.zap.pax-web

A full clean build should set you right.

We are using the OPS4j Pax Web OSGi modules to assist us in deploying servlets, filters, etc.  Even WAR files.  But I don't really like their packaging.  They include the Jetty 6 classes in their bundle, rather than relying on the OSGi bundles already provided by Jetty 6.  Which is annoying because Jetty 6 cannot then be updated independently of Pax Web.  I've posted to their mailing list about this, we'll see what happens.  In the end though, this is infrastructure and we may not upgrade Jetty 6 for another year or more, and writing all of the classloading gymnastics etc. from scratch does not seem like a wise use of our time.  So Pax Web it is, for now.  They do have some nice features, like listening to bundles and un-deploying/redeploying servlets and such.

Oh, one last thing.  Images in tools are currently broken due to the security filter and the way we load images on the client not being able to set the cookie.  I will be resolving this issue shortly.  Don't Panic.

-Brett
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