[GERONIMO-449] New CLI deployer should accept foreign JAR file not impl class

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.0-M3
• Fix Version/s: 1.0-M3
• Component/s: deployment
• Assignee: Aaron Mulder
• Reporter: Aaron Mulder
• Created: 06/Nov/04 17:25
• Updated: 16/Jul/06 18:00
• Resolved: 09/Nov/04 01:05

Description

The --driver option should take a JAR file not a driver class. It's not obvious how to add a foreign driver to the CLASSPATH otherwise (because we use a teeny JAR which itself uses manifest Class-Path entries). This option should:

• prepare a classloader including the driver JAR and its manifest Class-Path entries
• identify and load the DeploymentFactory impl listed in the JSR-88 entry in the manifest file (or if it's not there, give an informative error message)
• register the DeploymentFactory (if the spec doesn't say it should do that itself)