All,
I was looking at Aaron's "Guiding Principals" doc and rmembered I meant to post some thoughts on the
"Geronimo Experience."
I've been working on deploying daytrader and have noted a couple of things that I think are relevant
from a user perspective. Specifically these around the repository.
For my testing I've been using DB2 as the database as I wanted to use a commercial database that was
external to the AppServer. The same story is true for MySQL, PostGres, etc.
In order to deploy a dependent jar into the repo you have to add the group, artifact and version
information. So in the case of DB2 there are two jars you have to add. They are the db2jcc.jar and
the db2jcc_license_cu.jar. Putting them into the repo I did the following:
mkdir -p ./geronimo-1.1-SNAPSHOT/repository/com/ibm/db2/db2jcc_license_cu/8.1/
mkdir -p ./geronimo-1.1-SNAPSHOT/repository/com/ibm/db2/db2jcc/8.1/
Then I copied the jars into the repo:
cp db2jcc.jar
./geronimo-1.1-SNAPSHOT/repository/com/ibm/db2/db2jcc/8.1/db2jcc-8.1.jar
cp db2jcc_license_cu.jar
./geronimo-1.1-SNAPSHOT/repository/com/ibm/db2/db2jcc_license_cu/8.1/db2jcc_license_cu-8.1.jar
For the most part this is certainly doable but is actually pretty tedious. Also, following the
convention, the artifactname and the version are duplicated in the actual deployed jar; seems a bit
redundant.
I wanted to validate that my usage is correct per the original design. If it is I think we're
probably missing one of the points in Aaron's doc about the server being simple to use. At least
this is not intuitive.
If my understanding is wrong or there is a better suggestion on how to handle this please post back.
I'm working on the documentation for how to deploy DayTrader. Since this is a very visible use
case for the server I want to make sure this is the direction we are going to recommend for users.
Perhaps another approach is to use the shared lib that was recently added (I have to go back through
the e-mails to see how to set it up). I think that paradigm is more in line with Tomcat users as
well as other AppServers.
Thoughts?
Matt
