I dont like the underscore prefixing either, particularly in my development
environment.
At present, on my development wkstation, I manually replace the ear file in
orion/applications while the server is running. This triggers auto-unpack
and redeploy without underscore renaming. Previously, I used the -deploy
option of the admin.jar utility which does result in underscore renaming.
Slamming an ear into the running server like this does avoid renaming
behavior, but I've found that it does not work on all our development
wkstations, for reasons I have not nailed down. In some cases, auto-unpack
fails with a diagnostic like 'zip file format error', when the file is
flawless. The work-around in that case is to stop the server replace the
ear file in orion/applications and then startup the server.
I intend to put the work around into our ant deployment script (let it stop
and startup orion) but have not done so yet. I've used admin.jar across the
network ok, so given a shared file system, this klunky approach should work
as a remote deployment technique for enterprise apps that does not result in
underscore renaming.
For our initial production application, the *shutdown, replace ear, startup*
approach will probably be
an acceptable protocol that fits into our weekly change-management process.
For subsequent, high availability applications we will probably be looking
at another server for production, unless Orion has a more convenient
hot-deploy capability by then.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Koster, K.J." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Orion-Interest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 2:14 PM
Subject: remote deployment, how?
> Dear All,
>
> I would like to be able to deploy an .ear remotely (the servers run
FreeBSD,
> some of the development workstations use Windows). I found that admin.jar
> can do this, and that the new application is indeed uploaded to the
server.
> It is not automatically deployed in place of the old one.
>
> What I do now (more or less) is this:
>
> java -jar admin.jar ormi://bladibla admin passwd \
> -deploy -file doc.ear -deploymentName doc
>
> I see that the new file shows up in $ORION/applications, prefixed with an
> underscore. Repeatedly deploying the same file gives me lots of folders
with
> ever more underscores (_doc, __doc, ___doc, etc), but changes to .jsp
files
> in the .ear are not visible over the web.
>
> What I want to do is upload a new version of the application archive in
> place of the old one, auto-deploying the thing. Question is: how do I do
> that?
>
> Kees Jan
>
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