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July 05, 2013

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If you're using external Jar files in your project, you may be loading them at run time with Mark Mandel's JavaLoader project.  (CF10 allows for dynamic loading of Jar files, but for people still on CF8, or 9, JavaLoader is the defacto method)
If you're manually creating and using the JavaLoader CFC, please remember that WireBox has a dedicated "JavaLoader" namespace in its mapping DSL to handle this for you using ColdBox's JavaLoader Plugin.  Here all you have to do:

Put a javaloader_libpath setting in your config file that tells ColdBox where the your Jars are:

ColdBox.cfc
// custom settings
settings = {
    javaloader_libpath = "/includes/jars/"
};

If you have more than one Jar directory, simply pass in a comma-delimited list, OR an array of paths.  Your choice.

Now you can inject that class into your components by using the "javaloader" namespace and following it by the Java classpath:

component {
    property name="UASparser" inject="javaLoader:cz.mallat.uasparser.UASparser";
}

That will inject the Java Class definition (which is fine for static classes).  If you need an instance, you'll want to call the init() method to actually instantiate it.

function onDIComplete() {
    oUASparser = UASparser.init(ExpandPath("/includes/uas.ini"));
}

That's not the only way-- this one-liner accomplishes the same thing:

oUASparser = getModel(dsl="javaloader:cz.mallat.uasparser.UASparser").init(ExpandPath("/includes/uas.ini"));

More info here: http://wiki.coldbox.org/wiki/Plugins:JavaLoader.cfm
And here: http://wiki.coldbox.org/wiki/WireBox.cfm#ColdBox_Namespace

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Dec 09, 2014 10:39:20 UTC

by Daniel

How to add javaloader_libpath in wirebox standalone..?

Dec 09, 2014 12:11:15 UTC

by Brad Wood

The javaloader DSL namespace is only available in WireBox when it is linked to ColdBox. That's because it depends on the JavaLoader Plugin which is part of ColdBox. Note: in ColdBox 4, JavaLoader has been removed from the ColdBox core and is an optional module called cbjavaloader.

So you can't use the DSL I showed in this post by default, HOWEVER you can add this into WireBox standalone if you wish. Look at how the cbjavaloader module works-- it registers the javaloader DSL on the fly. <a href=https://github.com/ColdBox/cbox-javaloader/blob/master/modules/cbjavaloader/ModuleConfig.cfc#L26">https://github.com/ColdBox/cbox-javaloader/blob/master/modules/cbjavaloader/ModuleConfig.cfc#L26</a> You could probably make a standalone version of cbjavaloader that reused the same loader object and registered the DSL.

Honestly though, i would save my time and just start using ColdBox :) Using JavaLoader in ColdBox 4 is as simple as this: CommandBox> install cbjavaloader Done!

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