[Building Sakai] Lesson Builder and Assignment 2

Thu Jul 5 04:04:46 PDT 2012

Hi Aaron,

Thanks for the explanation. We have a situation where we wanted to add Assignments2 also in Lesson Builder. So there was some configuration that needs to be changed. 

I did all that. The steps are documented quickly on this blog: https://elearn.wits.ac.za/blog/2012/07/02/lesson_builder.html

Everything worked fine on the localhost and dev machine. Now on the QA server, we have two nodes, and Lesson Builder is not picking up assignment2 sometimes, and sometimes it does depending on the node you are on. 

I'm trying to get a handle on this problem but I know that each time tomcat starts I see
     haveA2 = false. 

I looked at the code and in init method in Lesson Builder there is, 

if(ToolManager.getTool("sakai.assignment2") != null)
    haveA2 = true;

I might be missing something small.

Any help is appreciated.

Kind Regards,
Nguni

On 05 Jul 2012, at 12:44 PM, Aaron Zeckoski wrote:

> Servlet containers load web applications (war files) in an unspecified/undefined order. Generally they are not supposed to depend on each other so load order should not matter. In practice, the order is typically alpha or file timestamp based depending on the filesystem.
> 
> The Sakai component manager load order is controlled by Spring which manages all the services (start, stop, etc.). It manages the complete lifecycle and builds a start order graph based on the inter-service dependencies.
> 
> I suspect that lessons is checking for classes or something non-service based as a way to detect if a tool exists. This mechanism won't provide any hints to the Spring AC so it won't know to start the lessons component late enough to pick up on the assignments 2 components.
> 
> -AZ
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 6:07 AM, Nkululeko Phakela <Nkululeko.Phakela at wits.ac.za> wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> How are wars/components loaded in sakai when starting up sakai? It is not in alphabetical order?
> 
> I want lesson builder to use assignment 2. However, since lessonbuilder is loaded before assignment2, it says the tool doesn't
> exist and cannot be used. How can I make sure that assignment2 is deploy first, then lessonbuilder? 
> 
> Hope there is a way around this.
> 
> Kind Regards,
> Nguni
> 
> 
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