Re: [jetty-users] webdefault in OSGi

[Craig Ching <craigching@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jan,

Thanks for the information, I had found that, but what I really wanted to be able to do was have the webdefault editable outside of a bundle so that a user could make a change to it if necessary.  But let me rethink that, it might not be necessary for this.

Thanks again!

Cheers,

Craig

On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 12:16 AM, Jan Bartel <janb@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Craig,

I forgot - there's an even easier way to do this!

Just define inside your bundle manifest the header "Jetty-defaultWebXmlFilePath" with either an absolute file location or url, or a relative location inside the bundle of a webdefault.xml file. The BundleWebAppProvider will see it when it deploys the bundle as a webapp and apply it.

Sorry I didn't think of that earlier - I'm going back over the osgi documentation even as we speak to ensure its comprehensive!

Jan

On 24 May 2013 10:01, Craig Ching <craigching@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks Jan, I appreciate the response!

I did start on trying to configure a DeploymentManager and a BundleWebAppProvider, but without documentation to go with it, I was afraid I was heading down the wrong path ;-)

On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 6:47 PM, Jan Bartel <janb@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Craig,

Ooops, looks like I forgot to document a feature of webapp bundles on the jetty-osgi doco page here: http://www.eclipse.org/jetty/documentation/current/framework-jetty-osgi.html

I will update it.

What you can do is to include a META-INF/jetty-webapp-context.xml file (name must be exactly as shown)  in your bundle. That is a normal context xml file that will be applied to the webapp to configure it. So you can set the location of the webdefault.xml file if you like eg:

<?xml version="1.0"  encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE Configure PUBLIC "-//Jetty//Configure//EN" "http://www.eclipse.org/jetty/configure_9_0.dtd">
<Configure class="org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext">
  <Set name="defaultsDescriptor">file:///tmp/webdefault.xml</Set>
</Configure>

At the moment, the location of the webdefault.xml has to be absolute and external to the bundle, but I've opened an issue here:   https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=408910
to change it so that it can also name a bundle-relative location. Should get that done before the next jetty-9 release.

As an alternative, you could also provide your own jetty configuration files instead of using those in the jettyhome/ dir of the jetty osgi boot core bundle - you would need to define at least a DeploymentManager and the BundleWebAppProvider, and then tell the BundleWebAppProvider the location of the webdefault files you want to apply to all webapps that it deploys. However, that is more complicated, and something I should document rather than trying to explain it in an email :)

Jan

On 21 May 2013 04:06, Craig Ching <craigching@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

How do I set the default web descriptor (webdefault.xml) when running in OSGi?  Merely putting one in ${jetty.home}/etc/ should have worked I would think, but it doesn't appear to have.

Cheers,

Craig

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