[Pljava-dev] Jars as blobs

[Stephen Crowley]

Oh. That would explain a lot :) Where is the jar data actually stored
when install_jar is called? Also, install_jar takes a file url as a
parameter so the file still has to be on the server. How much work
would it take to make install_jar accept a blob as a parameter so jars
could be installed remotely instead of copying files back to the
server each time?

--Stephen


On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 23:29:18 +0100, Thomas Hallgren
<thhal at mailblocks.com> wrote:
> Stephen Crowley wrote:
> 
> >Has anyone considered storing jar files as blobs and a modified
> >classloader to read from this table? This would make deployment much
> >easier as file system access to the database would not be required. I
> >was just wanting to check with everyone first to make sure there is
> >not something obvious that I am missing before I start work. Any
> >ideas?
> >
> >
> You are missing something obvious :-)
> Jar files are already loaded and stored in the database today using the
> install_jar, replace_jar, and remove_jar function calls. The only jar
> that is stored in the filesystem is the pljava.jar. Among other things,
> that jar contains the table based classloader which explains why it has
> to be loaded from the file system.
> 
> The CLASSPATH visible to the postmaster (or configured using
> pljava.classpath) should *only* appoint the pljava.jar. All other jars
> (short of the ones in the JVM bootclasspath path of course) should be
> loaded into the database.
> 
> Regards,
> Thomas Hallgren
> 
>