Implementing a Repository Manager

[Former Member]

Has anybody made further steps in implementing a Repository Manager according to the article of Thilo Brandt?

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sapportals.km.docs/documents/a1-8-4/imple... a repository manager.article

Let's discuss about it!

kind regards

steffen

[Former Member]

Hi,

can I avoid restarting the J2EE-Engine each time I upload a "Repository Manager"-par-file to see the changes?

regards

Martin

[thilo_brandt]

Hi Martin,

unfortunately the restart is always necessary to make the CrtClassLoader Registry deal with the latest deployed classes. There is currently no mechanism to tell the CrtClassLoader to reload a certain class or complete package without restarting the whole Portal.

Best regards,

Thilo

[markusriedinger]

Hi Martin,

if you look at the example code by Thilo, you will find, that he used a class called Node and one called Folder Node.

We did start our development by finalizing and testing those two classes using ..java main class to test.

After finishing you just add the right calles to the required managers.

With this approach you can limit the number of restarts drastically.

Cheers,

M.

[Former Member]

Hi Markus,

you mean to add a java-main-"method" to test the classes locally - outside the portal, right?

Regards

Martin

[Former Member]

Hi Thilo,

is there a mechanism to tell the CRTClassLoader to reload certain classes ... today? We use SAP EP 6.0 SP2 P 28 with KM at the same Patch Level. Do we have to use EP 6.0 SP9? Or is there still no way to work around frequently restarts?

Thanks and best regards,

Detlev

[thilo_brandt]

Hi Detlev,

unfortunately reloading classes without portal restart will not be possible before SPS11. But even then the restriction is, that static references in KM components have to be devalidated during unload and re-initialized during restart, or much better: don't use static references.

Best regards,

Thilo