Hi All,
I've tried to find the "best fit" solution to what I think is a fairly
common problem:
My WebApp (war) needs to call a customized geoserver. Specifically, I want
my geoserver deployed with my own data, styles, user/pass eta eta eta....
>From everything I can see, I should configure the appserver to have
-DGEOSERVER_DATA_DIR and that's the "customized" config I require (can
redeploy a new zip to the machine eta eta eta). However, this isn't the
easiest thing to do from an operational sense... it would be much easier if
I could deploy my geoserver_data within the geoserver.war itself. After all,
its what war's are there for.
So, I've given this some thought and seen a similar approach in other
projects. Maven mojo plugins often download resources from zip's, unpack
them, use the contents of the unpacked artifact, repackage and then
release/distrubute/deployed eta eta eta.
If geoserver.war is available in a maven repository(?) it can be downloaded
(version specific) as a plugin dependency, it can be unpacked
(target/geoserver/*), and the contents of the data dir can be replaced by
the contents the client user wants/has. This means that I can release my own
spatial data and server with all the benefits of svn, geoserver and Maven's
lifecycle. It also means that the war can be packed inside an ear to be
coupled with your applications versioning/release cycle eta eta eta (another
great way to deploy an application that is dependent on a specific geoserver
version or config).
I'm sure there are other ways around this too, where I might checkout
geoserver src as a module in my own project, and customize it there.... from
a "once off" perspecitve that might be a "quicker"... but doesn't represent
an easy solution for the next person that wants to do this. It also makes
versioning of the geoserver dependency painful.
Thoughts?
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