Re: Custom partition deployment process

[MartinZaidel]

Sorry, I wasn't clear: I'm trying to run Directory Server standalone (not embedded), using the Daemon bootstrappers via the apacheds executable in $INSTALL_DIR/bin.   That is, the server will be kicked off from /etc/init.d/apacheds (ie., not via the command-line using maven).  On a lark---since it seemed like the right thing to do---I installed my custom directory partition classes in jar files in $INSTALL_DIR/lib/ext and the server configuration files into $INSTALL_DIR/conf.  And the good news is that the server *appears* to be configured correctly (at least no ClassNotFoundExceptions for the directory partition classes in the server logs with debugging turned up.)

The problem I have is that my log4j.properties file references a Log4J SNMP appender (built on top of opennms---also in $INSTALL_DIR/lib/ext, if you're keeping score at home) whose class is in my jar file (in $INSTALL_DIR/lib/ext):  that is,  it appears that the classloader shuffling by the daemon bootstrapping classes has the consequence of disconnecting the log4j LogFactory class from the appender in my jar file.

I'm trying to find documentation/help on how to package/deploy the appender so that log4j is properly configured.  That is, what the apacheds executable does via classloaders and not on how to implement a custom partition.

Thanks again.

Martin Zaidel

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To: Apache Directory Developers List <dev@directory.apache.org>
From: Ersin Er <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 23/03/2006 08:06AM
Subject: Re: Custom partition deployment process

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I've developed a custom partition for Apache directory server, which
> I'm trying to deploy with the 1.0-RC1 distribution.  I've taken the
> naive approach of just copying my jars to $INSTALL_DIR/lib/ext and my
> configuration files to $INSTALL_DIR/conf.  And it *almost* works---the
> logging configuation fails due to a classpath problem (I'm using a
> custom log4j appender class).
>
> Is there any documentation on how to deploy custom code to the
> standard distribution package (ie., using bin/apacheds.exe and not
> maven or ant)?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Martin
A bit out of date (m1) but here it's:

https://svn.safehaus.org/repos/sandbox/apachecon/partition/

HTH,
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Ersin