I think you're right. In JBoss 3.0 you call a method
on the deployer MBean. There was a message about making
an ant target for that a while back in the mailing list.
I don't recall the details - might check the mailing list
archive at
http://www.mail-archive.com/jboss-user%40lists.sourceforge.net/
JD
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Crossley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 2:54 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [JBoss-user] Deployment and testing
Hi jboss-users.
As cool as "putting a file in a directory to deploy it" is, it doesn't work
well for unit testing. I find it very convenient to have a "test" target in
my build file like so:
<target name="test" depends="deploy">...
But that doesn't work well when the deploy target merely copies a jar file
to a jboss-watched directory. Because it takes a few seconds for jboss to
actually deploy the file, the test target commences before the file has been
deployed.
With jboss 2.4, I solved this problem using the very cool
org.jboss.jmx.client.Deployer (shown below). This guaranteed that my
deployed file was actually deployed by the time the test target ran, because
the class' main method didn't return until the app was successfully
deployed. It made my build/test/debug cycle a breeze!
But alas, the magical class has disappeared in jboss 3.0. :-(
It seems to have been renamed org.jboss.jmx.service.Deployer and it doesn't
seem to be included in the binary distribution. I think it's now part of
the testsuite.
I really think the new Template Project would benefit from a "synchronous
deploy target". It sure makes testing easier. Can we include a Deployer
class in the distro? Or am I missing a more obvious JMX-ish way of
accomplishing the same thing?
Here's what I do in 2.4:
<property name="deploy.args" value="file:////${dist.home}/ejb-test.jar"/>
<target name="deploy" depends="jar">
<java classname="org.jboss.jmx.service.Deployer">
<classpath>
<fileset dir="${jboss.lib}" includes="*.jar"/>
</classpath>
<arg line="${deploy.args}"/>
<sysproperty key="java.naming.factory.initial"
value="org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContextFactory"/>
<sysproperty key="java.naming.provider.url" value="localhost:1099"/>
<sysproperty key="java.naming.factory.url.pkgs"
value="org.jboss.naming:org.jnp.interfaces"/>
</java>
</target>
<target name="undeploy">
<antcall target="deploy">
<param name="deploy.args" value="-undeploy ${deploy.args}"/>
</antcall>
</target>
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