Re: Apache Catch 22

["Aaron Jackson" <ashram@insync.net>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Aaron Jackson <ashram@insync.net>
To: gnujsp@gjt.org <gnujsp@gjt.org>
Date: Thursday, February 18, 1999 1:41 AM
Subject: Apache Catch 22


>Interesting little problem I ran into.  I have a JSP page which needs to
>refer to another servlet, so it uses
>GenericServlet.getServletContext().getServlet().  I havent tested all this
>fun code yet, but here's a nice little catch 22 on apache.  My servlet code
>and beans are in packages in the same classpath.  Nothing surprising there
>as I just mentioned, they are referencing servlets.  Under Apache, areas
are
>zoned and classes are reloaded if they are not in the classpath.  This
>basically means that servlets are only reloaded if they exist in a defined
>repository.  GNUJSP runs into the exact opposite problem.  The classpath
>must be set in order to execute the bean.  So either I get no beans or I
>cant reload my servlet.  Makes for one hell of a development environment.
>
>-- Aaron

Imagine my surprise when I realized that gnujsp-0.9.8 handles some of these
issues.