Hi David, Responses in-line.
djencks wrote: > > Hi Jim, > > I think I have failed to communicate what I'm trying to tell you what to > do :-) > That would explain why I had the feeling that I wasn't connecting all the dots...and which is why I took the time to explain all the details on my end. djencks wrote: > > I've tried to explain in more detail here: > > > http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/GMOxDOC21/Constructing+a+special-purpose+server+using+maven > Now this is making sense. I wish I had this information a week ago. djencks wrote: > > Two things I'm not trying to do: > 1. show you how to deploy liferay on geronimo > 2. give you a maven project that builds a liferay plugin and assembly > > What I am trying to explain is how you can set up a maven project to build > liferay plugins and assemblies, with the help of the geronimo archetypes > for these kind of projects. > > It looks to me from what you are describing below that you are trying to > deploy liferay on geronimo. > > Although this might seem easier at first it's not automated and is a hard > way to get a plugin let alone a server. > > Automating it using maven records what you do in executable form and > should provide a simple way to track progress towards a working plugin and > something to update for new versions of liferay and geronimo. > Ok, I now understand where you are driving this. This sounds like a far superior approach. I have followed your instructions at your wiki page "Constructing a special-purpose server using maven", and all goes well until the step: Build a database plugin. It appears that the archetype is not found. Full output to the console: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- D:\Geronimo\plugins\liferay-parent>mvn archetype:create -DarchetypeGroupId=org.apache.geronimo.buildsupport \ -DarchetypeArtifactId=geronimo-module-archetype \ -DarchetypeVersion=2.2-SNAPSHOT \ -DgroupId=org.apache.geronimo.plugins \ -DartifactId=liferay-derby \ -Dversion=1.0-SNAPSHOT [INFO] Scanning for projects... [INFO] Searching repository for plugin with prefix: 'archetype'. [INFO] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [INFO] Building liferay-parent [INFO] task-segment: [archetype:create] (aggregator-style) [INFO] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [INFO] Setting property: classpath.resource.loader.class => 'org.codehaus.plexus.velocity.ContextClassLoaderResourceLoader'. [INFO] Setting property: velocimacro.messages.on => 'false'. [INFO] Setting property: resource.loader => 'classpath'. [INFO] Setting property: resource.manager.logwhenfound => 'false'. [INFO] ************************************************************** [INFO] Starting Jakarta Velocity v1.4 [INFO] RuntimeInstance initializing. [INFO] Default Properties File: org\apache\velocity\runtime\defaults\velocity.properties [INFO] Default ResourceManager initializing. (class org.apache.velocity.runtime.resource.ResourceManagerImpl) [INFO] Resource Loader Instantiated: org.codehaus.plexus.velocity.ContextClassLoaderResourceLoader [INFO] ClasspathResourceLoader : initialization starting. [INFO] ClasspathResourceLoader : initialization complete. [INFO] ResourceCache : initialized. (class org.apache.velocity.runtime.resource.ResourceCacheImpl) [INFO] Default ResourceManager initialization complete. [INFO] Loaded System Directive: org.apache.velocity.runtime.directive.Literal [INFO] Loaded System Directive: org.apache.velocity.runtime.directive.Macro [INFO] Loaded System Directive: org.apache.velocity.runtime.directive.Parse [INFO] Loaded System Directive: org.apache.velocity.runtime.directive.Include [INFO] Loaded System Directive: org.apache.velocity.runtime.directive.Foreach [INFO] Created: 20 parsers. [INFO] Velocimacro : initialization starting. [INFO] Velocimacro : adding VMs from VM library template : VM_global_library.vm [ERROR] ResourceManager : unable to find resource 'VM_global_library.vm' in any resource loader. [INFO] Velocimacro : error using VM library template VM_global_library.vm : org.apache.velocity.exception.ResourceNotFoundException: Unable to find resource 'VM_global_library.vm' [INFO] Velocimacro : VM library template macro registration complete. [INFO] Velocimacro : allowInline = true : VMs can be defined inline in templates [INFO] Velocimacro : allowInlineToOverride = false : VMs defined inline may NOT replace previous VM definitions [INFO] Velocimacro : allowInlineLocal = false : VMs defined inline will be global in scope if allowed. [INFO] Velocimacro : initialization complete. [INFO] Velocity successfully started. [INFO] [archetype:create] [INFO] Defaulting package to group ID: org.apache.geronimo.plugins [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ERROR] BUILD ERROR [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Failed to resolve artifact. GroupId: org.apache.geronimo.buildsupport ArtifactId: geronimo-module-archetype Version: 2.2-SNAPSHOT Reason: Unable to download the artifact from any repository Try downloading the file manually from the project website. Then, install it using the command: mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=org.apache.geronimo.buildsupport -DartifactId=geronimo-module-archetype \ -Dversion=2.2-SNAPSHOT -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=/path/to/file Alternatively, if you host your own repository you can deploy the file there: mvn deploy:deploy-file -DgroupId=org.apache.geronimo.buildsupport -DartifactId=geronimo-module-archetype \ -Dversion=2.2-SNAPSHOT -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=/path/to/file \ -Durl=[url] -DrepositoryId=[id] org.apache.geronimo.buildsupport:geronimo-module-archetype:jar:2.2-SNAPSHOT from the specified remote repositories: central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2) [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] For more information, run Maven with the -e switch [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Total time: 3 seconds [INFO] Finished at: Thu Feb 28 09:45:26 MST 2008 [INFO] Final Memory: 4M/8M [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Did I goof, or is something amiss? Jim -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Geronimo-v2.1-Plan-Creator-%3D%3E-Deploy-Liferay-4.1.1-tp15437773s134p15741053.html Sent from the Apache Geronimo - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
