Actually there's one advantage of NSBundles: You can make a quick
edit to a WOComponent on the deployed app. With a JAR I'm assuming
that you'd need to restart the app to see the changes.
On 20/01/2008, at 1:18 PM, Mike Schrag wrote:
> While I like the _idea_ of the single jars, it does make split
> install more annoying. Right now I can setup WebServerResource
> symlinks back into my woa and embedded frameworks that
> "automatically update" when I deploy the latest woa, which is
> really handy. With jar builds, you have to explicitly do a two step
> deployment every time. This is actually why I haven't jumped on the
> bandwagon of jar frameworks yet.
>
> ms
>
> On Jan 19, 2008, at 7:57 PM, Alex Cone wrote:
>
>> WOResourceManager should be able to find everything usually in a
>> framework bundle inside a jar _file_. I'd love to see us move to
>> file based frameworks (as opposed to bundle-based) as a universal
>> default. Just jar up all the wo component files along with the
>> classes, plists, Properties files etc. Would sure make everyone's
>> life easier...
>>
>> On Jan 19, 2008, at 6:05 PM, Art Isbell wrote:
>>
>>> On Jan 19, 2008, at 7:46 AM, Gavin Eadie wrote:
>>>
>>>> An associated thought: WebObjects 5.4 not only introduced jar
>>>> frameworks
>>>
>>> I have jar frameworks on my WO 5.2 partition, so at least Apple-
>>> provided jar frameworks have been available since at least WO
>>> 5.2. I don't recall when Xcode builds first produced them, but
>>> it's been a while.
>>>
>>>> but: "At this point, JAR files are the preferred storage
>>>> mechanism for NSBundles". Does this new convention impact
>>>> Mike's suggestions ? In particular, when using these jar
>>>> frameworks, are ALL frameworks (Apple's and local) deployed in /
>>>> Library/WebObjects/lib/ ?
>>>
>>> Xcode 2.4 (WO 5.3) by default deploys jar frameworks in /Library/
>>> WebObjects/lib, but I don't know whether earlier versions do or
>>> whether woproject does.
>>>
>>> My point is that any change to use jar rather than directory
>>> frameworks should work with WO versions earlier than 5.4.
>>>
>>> Aloha,
>>> Art
>>>
>>
>>
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>
>
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