Hi David!
Thank you very much for the detailed instructions. I will definitely try
this out tomorrow (too late for me now). Sorry again for reporting the
wrong version, our mails overlapped.
Greetings from Hamburg,
Stefan
David Jencks wrote:
On Aug 10, 2007, at 1:24 PM, Stefan Zoerner wrote:
David Jencks wrote:
I thought people here might like to know that I recently updated
Geronimo's apacheds support from where it's been stuck in pre-1.0
land to 1.5.0/1.5.1 and made it a plugin for easier updating.
This is really good news! Thanks to you, David.
I have downloaded the current Geronimo 2.0 milestone (M6) and was able
to browse to the plugin entry for ApacheDS 1.0
I didn't know about any such plugin -- where did you find it?
Please note that the URL used in the description
http://directory.apache.org/subprojects/apacheds/index.html
does not work any longer. Is it possible to change it to
http://directory.apache.org/
which will likely be stable for a long time?
I don't know... I'm not sure where that plugin came from, it's not the
one I worked on :-)
It works best with geronimo trunk (I found a couple of errors in the
2.0 plugin installer right after the release was cut) but can be made
to work in 2.0. I expect after 2.0 is actually out we'll try to iron
out the wrinkles in the geronimo plugin system and actually release
this, it will be the first official geronimo plugin release (separate
from a server release).
I must confess that I have not informed myself about the plugin
features of G. The installation with M6 does not work, because all
plugins say ("(Not available; View Details)"). Does this mean I have
to build the trunk of G, as you have pointed out?
The plugin features of geronimo don't work all that well yet, and the
plugin I worked on for geronimo 2+ and apacheds 1.5.0 isn't released
yet. It's significantly easier to get the plugin to run on geronimo
trunk or the branches/2.0 versions than the
about-to-be-officially-released (we hope) geronimo 2.0 which
unfortunately has a couple of bugs in the plugin installer that I
discovered a few minutes after the release was tagged.
Here's what to do:
geronimo: get 2.0 or build server/trunk or server/branches/2.0
plugin: check out and build plugins/directory/trunk (for apacheds
1.5.1-SNAPSHOT) or plugins/directory/branches/2.0 (for apacheds 1.5.0).
make your local maven repo look like a geronimo plugin repo: When you
built the plugin, maven will have copied a file geronimo-plugin.xml to
directory/target/classes/META-INF/geronimo-plugin.xml. Copy this file
to ~/.m2/repository/geronimo-plugins.xml and edit it so it looks like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<geronimo-plugin-list
xmlns="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/plugins-1.2";>
<plugin>
<name>Apache Directory 1.5.1-SNAPSHOT for Geronimo</name>
...
</plugin>
<default-repository>file:///Users/david/.m2/repository/</default-repository>
</geronimo-plugin-list>
If you are using geronimo 2.0, change
<config-xml-content>
<gbean xmlns="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/attributes-1.2";
name="DirectoryService">
<attribute
name="configFile">var/directory/server.xml</attribute>
</gbean>
</config-xml-content>
to
<config-xml-content>
<gbean xmlns="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/attributes-1.1";
name="DirectoryService">
<attribute
name="configFile">var/directory/server.xml</attribute>
</gbean>
</config-xml-content>
(different namespace)
ok... now for the fireworks :-)
Start geronimo and look in the admin console under "plugins". Click the
"add new plugin repository" link and add the file:// url for your local
maven repo: for me it's file://Users/david/.m2/repository
Now click the Search For Plugins button and you should get a page with
the directory plugin shown. If not there might be something wrong with
the "supported versions" in the geronimo-plugin.xml, try editiing it to
whatever version you are using. Click the install buttons at the bottom
of the pages until if finally installs....
On branches/2.0 and trunk the plugin should install and start without
problems. You can check by looking at the bottom of the System Modules
page. On 2.0, you have to do some more work.
from the root of your geronimo install:
mkdir var/directory
cp
repository/org/apache/geronimo/plugins/directory/2.0-SNAPSHOT/directory-2.0-SNAPSHOT.car/META-INF/server.xml
var/directory/server.xml
Now you should be able to start the plugin from the system modules page
in the admin console.
I checked that it was working ok by using LDAP Studio to connect: I
could see some plausible entries and appeared to be able to add and edit
entries, so I figured it was working properly.
Obviously this procedure is not yet incredibly convenient :-) but I
think improving it is going to be an immediate focus of a couple of the
geronimo developers. Having a really useful plugin will hopefully spur
this process on :-)
thanks!
david jencks
Thanks in advance,
Stefan
