How to get javax.servlet.GenericServlet from Seam Bean?

[philip142au.philip_andrew.hotmail.com]

Hi,

I am trying to use Apache Jackrabbit from within my SEAM Application.

What it wants, is a reference the to object which inherits from GenericServlet. So I am supposed to pass in a object here.

public class ServletRepository extends org.apache.jackrabbit.commons.repository.ProxyRepository {
  public ServletRepository(javax.servlet.GenericServlet genericServlet) { / compiled code / }

Now what I thought, I can find the servlet which implements this abstract class GenericServlet.

I tried ServletContexts.instance().getRequest() ... but that wasn't the right thing. I also tried, ServletLifecycle.getCurrentServletContext() ... nope, Any ideas?

Thanks, Philip

[cash1981]

Hmm I am not sure about this but have you tried:

ServletContext ctx = (ServletContext) facesContext.getExternalContext().getContext(); 

If you get Jackrabbit to work with seam post here. I would like to know.

[philip142au.philip_andrew.hotmail.com]

Hi Shervin,

I am not using faces, my client program is a FLEX application which calls my servlet through GraniteDS. So there is no HTML, so there is no faces.

I can share what I have done so far. I use maven to build, this is what works for me to get Jackrabbit with Maven.

        <!-- Jackrabbit embedded http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/JCR/Embedded+Repository -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>javax.jcr</groupId>
            <artifactId>jcr</artifactId>
            <version>1.0</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.jackrabbit</groupId>
            <artifactId>jackrabbit-core</artifactId>
            <version>1.5.6</version>
            <exclusions>
                <exclusion>
                    <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
                    <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
            </exclusions>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
          <groupId>org.apache.jackrabbit</groupId>
          <artifactId>jackrabbit-jcr-servlet</artifactId>
          <version>1.5.2</version>
        </dependency>

In my web.xml I use:

<servlet>
      <servlet-name>ContentRepository</servlet-name>
      <servlet-class>org.apache.jackrabbit.servlet.jackrabbit.JackrabbitRepositoryServlet</servlet-class>
      <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>

... Do you think I could access this servlet by name?

However I have been following the instructions which said:

You can then access the repository in your own servlet classes using the following piece of code without worrying about the repository lifecycle.

import javax.jcr.Repository;
import org.apache.jackrabbit.servlet.ServletRepository;
Repository repository = new ServletRepository(this);

The problem is, my SEAM bean is not a servlet, so I cannot pass (this).

Philip

[philip142au.philip_andrew.hotmail.com]

Hi,

Ok I got a servlet working. Then I access the resource from my SEAM component.

public class JackrabbitServlet extends HttpServlet {

    private static org.apache.jackrabbit.servlet.ServletRepository repository = null;

    public static org.apache.jackrabbit.servlet.ServletRepository getRepository() {
      return JackrabbitServlet.repository;
    }

    @Override
    public void init(javax.servlet.ServletConfig servletConfig) throws javax.servlet.ServletException
    {
      super.init(servletConfig);
      repository = new ServletRepository(this);
    }
}

In web.xml

    <servlet>
      <servlet-name>ContentRepository</servlet-name>
      <servlet-class>org.apache.jackrabbit.servlet.jackrabbit.JackrabbitRepositoryServlet</servlet-class>
      <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>

    <servlet>
      <servlet-name>JackrabbitServlet</servlet-name>
      <servlet-class>com.orsa.seam.JackrabbitServlet</servlet-class>
      <load-on-startup>2</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>

My seam component gets the repository by calling the static method on JackrabbitServlet.

ServletRepository repository = JackrabbitServlet.getRepository();

Actually my SEAM component is in Scala.

val repository:ServletRepository = JackrabbitServlet.getRepository

Any comments? Suggest a better way?

Philip