[kepler-dev] build a custom actor

[Bertram Ludaescher]

Where is the KSW stuff hanging out?

KSW and KAR is the same thing (we switched names since it's easier to say
and remember KAR (as in TAR and JAR) than KSW)
Any references, documents talking about KSW should be exterminated ;-)

Bertram

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Dawid Szejnfeld <dejw at man.poznan.pl> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I can't put the jars out there because they could do some conflicts with
> some existing ones (I have some other versions for example). I read that
> KAR's can contain jars and do some custom class loading - it is the only
> solution here. But I can't find any tutorial how to do it, how to build it
> and so on. I found also something about KSW files - but I understand it is
> some deprecated stuff ?
>
> Dawid
>
>
> Sean Riddle wrote:
>
>> Putting your Jar files into kepler/lib/jar (or any level below that) will
>> cause them to be put on the runtime classpath, I believe. Ideally, you would
>> use KAR files to bundle up actors with stuff they need, and then you could
>> import that in another Kepler installation; I've never actually tried it
>> myself, though, so someone else could probably speak on that better.
>>
>> - Sean
>>
>>
>> On Aug 7, 2008, at 4:39 AM, dejw wrote:
>>
>>  Hi,
>>>
>>> I want to build a custom actor for Kepler, I saw the HelloWorld example
>>> and it is clear for me, that's fine but...
>>>
>>> I want to create quite "big" actor with many jars included which are not
>>> a part of kepler right now - the question how to do it, where should I put
>>> my custom jars?
>>>
>>> How can I later exchange this actor with other kepler instances? KSW
>>> files? If yes is out there any tutorial how to prepare KSW file with right
>>> stuff inside?
>>>
>>> Can I later upload such actor (ksw?) to repository and download over the
>>> wire in another kepler instance and use?
>>>
>>> My actor with the jars included may have from about 30 MB even up to 100
>>> MB ;)
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Dawid Szejnfeld
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