Eric Dalquist wrote:
I'm working on mavenizing the trunk of uPortal and have run into a few
questions I'd like to pose to the group.
The big one is packaging.
Are you referring to packaging up uPortal for a release (i.e. a binary
distribution) or are you talking about a developer deploying from the
command line (say, someone who has checked out the tag from SVN) using
Maven?
Using maven for build management really lends
itself to generating an EAR since it allows multiple WARs (uPortal and
each portlet app) and shared libraries. For uPortal 3 sandbox
development we already have an EAR -> Tomcat deployer tool which puts
the WARs and JARs in the correct locations.
It has been a while - did the sandbox ear deployer ever correctly deploy
shared libraries, or did we punt on that?
The problem with the EAR approach is it does not (as far as I can tell)
allow for differentiation of what libraries are shared by just the WARs
(pluto) and what libraries need to be shared with the servlet container
(jdbc driver for JNDI datasource).
I agree, afaik ear packaging isn't able to specify what goes into a
shared classloader. If a webapp jar has a dependency on a shared
library, it needs to add the shared library in its MANIFEST.MF file, but
the ear itself doesn't contain the shared lib.
I think of it as the <provided> dependency scope in M2. The dependency
exists but it is provided by the container at runtime.
I'm not quite sure what to do about this. We don't really need to use
JNDI for the DataSource in the quickstart / out of the box configuration
but providing a way to do it without having to come up with a custom
development process would be very good.
I think if we're talking about a binary distribution (not a quickstart),
it is reasonable to ask deployers of uPortal to download their JDBC
driver and put it into the shared classloader of their servlet
container. Perhaps the uPortal binary distribution ships with some
common JDBC drivers, and an ant installer takes care of the rest.
Or perhaps I'm not fully understanding the issue,
Elliot
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