[news.eclipse.technology.equinox] Re: Question regarding ServiceSelector

[Gunnar Wagenknecht <gunnar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Frank,

Frank Appel schrieb:
> problems. Anyway it would be nice if somebody could point me to more
>  detailed information or solution regarding this problem.

I'm afraid you need to patch the help plug-in to register with *any*
HttpService available (or use an alternate filter if necessary).

> By the way something that I couldn't understand properly by reading
> the bug, is why this functionality was introduced the first time,
> since it was stated by Simon that ' its quite rare to run more than
> one HttpService in a single VM'.  So I'm wondering if there was a
> real usecase where the previous situation actually caused problems.

I can't comment on why it was introduced the first time. However, I have 
a use case. I'm developing a platform which provides multiple 
HttpService instances. One is for "public" stuff and the other for 
"admin" stuff. Think of it as an admin/system back office which - in 
addition to being password protected - must also be hidden from the 
public port.

Yet another use case might be virtual hosting or SSL sites. Some content 
should only be available over an SSL connection.

FWIW, I actually patched RAP to only register with a specific service 
instance. This works well for the actual servlet but not for the resources.

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=241210

-Gunnar



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