This webapp is appearing in the webapp list of AS at the moment. How about deploying this in a folder like repo/deployment/server/stratos?
Any objections? AmilaM. On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Muhammed Shariq <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 11:22 PM, Kishanthan Thangarajah < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Shariq, >> >> On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Muhammed Shariq <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi folks, >>> >>> From the last Stratos release we introduced a landing page as a simple >>> html based webapp to in order to display service specific information, >>> screen casts etc. Ideally we needed to be able to update this webapp with >>> minimal to no downtime. >>> >>> Previously this webapp was located in the distributions lib/home >>> directory with a special deployer in org.wso2.carbon.server package. This >>> deployer has been removed with the tomacat OSGification efforts. After a >>> quick discussion with Azeez and Pradeep I have added a separate landing >>> page deployer as a stratos component. Also we decided to move the webapp >>> into special dir named STRATOS_HOME (should be STRATOS_ROOT as per Pradeed, >>> not updated yet) in /repository/deployment/server/webapps directory. >>> >> >> AS now supports exploded webapp deployment by default. Because of this, >> the STRATOS_ROOT directory is getting deployed as a separate webapp. So we >> need to move this from /repository/deployment/server/webapps to another >> place. Since there is a separate deployer for this landingPage webapp, we >> can easily come up with the new repo location. But I can't find a proper >> place for this in repo/deployment other than webapps directory. >> > > Initially this webapp was at lib/home directory but we moved it to webapps > during the tomcat osgification effort. IIRC we discussed which is the > suitable place to moved the webapp and ultimately concluded to move it to > webapps dir, so if we could come up with a new location for this webapp I > am ok to go ahead with it. On the other hand, this double deployment > happens only in AS because of the webapp deployer right ? Isn't it possible > to skip the STRATOS_HOME webapp in the webapp deployer ?! > >> >> Thanks, >> Kishanthan. >> >>> >>> With this change in place we can simply edit the webapp without having >>> to restart the servers, meaning we don't need to do a scheduled maintenance >>> round to update the landing pages. Also since its under >>> repository/deployment dir, the deployment synchronizer will handle the >>> updating nodes in the cluster. >>> >>> I have already made necessary changes to all the service bin.xml files >>> and also added the component to the build. Let me know if you encounter any >>> issues ... >>> >>> -- >>> Thanks, >>> Shariq. >>> Phone: +94 777 202 225 >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Dev mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> *Kishanthan Thangarajah* >> Software Engineer, >> Development Technologies Team, >> WSO2, Inc. >> lean.enterprise.middleware >> >> Mobile - +94773426635 >> Blog - *http://kishanthan.wordpress.com* >> Twitter - *http://twitter.com/kishanthan* >> >> > > > -- > Thanks, > Shariq. > Phone: +94 777 202 225 > > > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev > > -- *Amila Maharachchi* Technical Lead Member, Management Committee - Cloud & Platform TG WSO2, Inc.; http://wso2.com Blog: http://maharachchi.blogspot.com Mobile: +94719371446
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