Hi Felix,
thanks for the feedback. Sorry for the late reply, I am currently
totally overloaded.
Felix Knecht wrote:
I tried to run the example [1] from the page on a linux box. It didn't worked,
because there are some hardcoded
(Windows) paths in the build.xml:
My fault. I thought about changing it to use ivy. But I did not had the
time, to do this, and my maven skills are really lame. And I thought,
mvn is overkill for simply compiling two classes and create a war file
with some libs from it ...
Following the well done documentation I created an archetype to let maven2
create a sample project similar to the one
mentioned in the zip file.
Great!
I'm able to create a new project with the archetype, build it, put the
generated war into an apache-tomcat-6.0.18, run
it and get the RootDSE page shown. I'm not sure if this is all the magic and if
you can get the RootDSE page you're sure
that everything else is also working well?
I have also run some tests with an LDAP client against the running
webapp, and it worked fine as well. I think it is not necessary to do
more. It is simply an example about how to embed ApacheDS somewhere, and
the web app approach looked charmingly easy.
To get the archetype-plugin check it out from my sandbox [2] and build it (mvn install).
This worked fine.
Then you should be able to
create a new project using
mvn archetype:generate \
-DgroupId=org.example \
-DartifactId=myProject \
-Dversion=1.0-SNAPSHOT \
-DarchetypeGroupId=org.apache.directory \
-DarchetypeArtifactId=embed-apacheds-archetype \
-DarchetypeVersion=1.0-SNAPSHOT
This worked as well. Although I am a little bit confused about the two
steps. First I checkout the archetype-plugin and build it. Then I use
this plugin to create a new mvn project. Afterwards I build this one as
well. Finally, I have the web app as in the example. And I am able to
create many other webapps with the same content as a template.
It is impressive, how it works, but I question myself, whether a simple
maven project is perhaps more appropriate for the task.
> If you think it's ok and usefull we can move it from the sandbox to
the matured projects.
My goal was to have a simple example for embedding the server in the
docs for people to get inspired. You build a tool which acts as a blue
print for comparable web apps, which may act as a starting point.
Question: Is it a common task to embed ApacheDS in a WebApp at all?
The funny thing: The example was quite often cited in the mailing list.
This is why I tried to update it ...
I would have favored a sub-project for samples, in which the ApacheDS
embedded in a WebApp is one of them. What do others think?
Anyway, we need a better way to build the example, in order to make it
easier for users to let it run. Your mvn approach is obviously better
than putting a zip-File without dependency resolution in the wiki. Thank
you therefore for the excellent work you did, Felix!
Greetings from Hamburg,
Stefan
