Thank you so much for the response Aaron. Right after I sent the message I stumbled on the config option you mentioned, which is usually how it goes :)
The file:// URL should prove to be handy as well, and the JVM proxy option has been an issue for me for quite awhile as it affects the downloading of common libs as well. I have tested the setting of the proxy through the JVM and found that the following works when included in the JAVA_OPTS environment variable: -DproxySet=true -DproxyHost=proxy.local -DproxyPort=8080 I will explore the cmdline deployer in this regard as well. I am curious if Geronimo will download the dependant common libs, as well as the plugins, considering the libs would not appear in the geronimo-plugins.xml, as they are not plugins per se. Anyway, thanks again. Dennis On 7/31/06, Aaron Mulder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Is the situation that you have a plugin and are just trying to install it? If so... The normal "Deploy New" screen won't deploy plugins properly. You can use the Plugin Create/Install screen or the command-line deploy tool. More on these in a minute. If your machine is behind a proxy, can you use the JVM startup argument to provide the proxy server? I'm not sure what the name of the setting is, but I've seen it before -- something like -Dhttp.proxy.server=hostname -Dhttp.proxy.port=8080. Can you try to identify and use this setting and report back whether it works for you? If you want to add a new repository to the plugin repository list, you currently need to add it in config.xml -- there is a Jira to correct this (adding the ability to add repositories via the console). In the mean time, make sure the server is down, and look for <attribute name="userRepositories">[]</attribute> in the config.xml and add a comma-separated list of URLs between the brackets. FYI, you should be able to use a file:/ URL to access your local repository (you don't need to run it through a web server). However, the repository must have a geronimo-plugins.xml file in the root that is basically the consolidation of the geronimo-plugin.xml files for all the plugins in the repository (it uses a different root tag, but includes all the plugin metadata as-is). This is used so the client doesn't need to crawl the whole repository in order to identify available plugins. The format of this is described in the plugin schema at http://geronimo.apache.org/schemas-1.1/plugins-1.1.xsd and for an example, you can see http://geronimoplugins.com/repository/geronimo-1.1/geronimo-plugins.xml Finally, if you have a plugin file, you can install it at the command line using the "install-plugin" command for the deploy tool. That command will download dependencies from whatever repositories are listed in your geronimo-plugin.xml file for the plugin you're installing, and you don't typically need the top-level metadata file since you're not browsing. So you could save a lot of steps by just putting the file:/ URL in your plugin metadata and installing the plugin with the command-line tool. Thanks, Aaron On 7/31/06, Dennis Cartier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I decided to try out the plugin packager and deployer in G 1.1 > > From what I can glean, the new capabilities of G 1.1 should allow > Geronimo to download applications and dependencies from a local > repository just using a plugin created from an existing deployment. > Unfortunately I have been unable to get this to work and just need a > push to get me over the hump. > > What I have done so far: > > 1. Exposed my local repository through Apache to be accessed over HTTP > > 2. Included the URL for the repository when creating the plugin as > indicated in the 'Create and Install Plugins' page. > > I am not sure of the format of the mentioned 'geronimo-plugins.xml' > file that is required to be in the root of the repository. In any > case, I do not see any attempt to access the repository when the > plugin is deployed. This may be because I have been trying to deploy > the plugin through the 'Deploy New' under Applications. I suspect that > the deployment should be done under the plugin page, but I have found > that there does not appear to be anyway to edit the available > repositories, and if you are behind a firewall that requires a proxy > server to be used, then the repository interface is completely > non-functional. > > Can anyone give me a push in the right direction? > > Thanks > > Dennis > > -- > > "The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long > plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die > like dogs. There's also a negative side. " > > Hunter S. Thompson, US journalist (1939 – 2005) >
-- "It is impossible to design fool proof systems, because fools are so clever." Authour unknown -- "The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side. " Hunter S. Thompson, US journalist (1939 – 2005)
