[SYNAPSE-377] Improve MediatorDeployer to support Startups and embedded JARs

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.2
• Component/s: Deployment
• Environment: N/A
• Assignee: Andreas Veithen
• Reporter: Andreas Veithen
• Created: 25/Jun/08 20:57
• Updated: 19/Sep/14 04:30
• Resolved: 19/Sep/14 04:30

Description

The MediatorDeployer could be improved to support
(1) embedded JARs (under the lib folder inside the archive) in the same way as for Axis2 service and module archives: this would allow to bundle extension mediators together with their dependency JARs.
(2) startups: the deployer should discover and register StartupFactory implementations in the same way as MediatorFactory implementations. While startups are not good candidates for hot deployment, this would still be useful in conjunction with the first improvement.

Note that if (1) is implemented it would be useful to define a standard file extension for this kind of archive (to distinguish them from normal JARs). Maybe .sxar (Synapse eXtension ARchive)?

Issue Links

• incorporates: SYNAPSE-485 Replace the use of sun.misc.Service with something available on other JDKs