[2] ought to be able to deploy to remote servers with no problem..
That said I haven't tried it. If it doesn't work it's probably a
very simple fix. Basically you just need to specify where the remote
server is.
From your description it sounds like you are assuming the app server
is an existing monolithic thing that doesn't really participate in
this process. We are trying to develop an alternate viewpoint where
the "app server" is something constructed around your application to
provide the runtime support it needs to operate. With this point of
view you would either assemble an app server containing your
application(s) or construct assembly instructions and ship these to
the remote servers and then start the preconfigured servers with your
application already installed.
We have a lot of this working in 2.1. The "predeployment" of apps
into geronimo plugins and assembly of servers from geronimo plugins
work well. Currently the easiest to use assembly recipe is a maven
project. We don't have distribution worked out too well. If you can
run the assembly project or some other maven project on the remote
machine that would work fine. There's also some remote management
capabilities using gshell, but I'm not sure how advanced they are.
I'm curious about what kind of remote management you expect to have
for the remote servers.
In any case I hope you find this interesting and continue to discuss
how it might fit into what you are trying to do.
thanks
david jencks
On Mar 26, 2008, at 1:51 PM, Kristian Rink wrote:
Folks;
being in the middle of evaluating a bunch of different options (i.o.w.
application servers) to serve as a future platform for most of our
(both
Spring and, sooner or later, EJB3 based) projects, I am just by now
dealing with Geronimo 2, partly hoping for a pretty decent maven2
support in terms of deploying modules (given they're both apache
projects). So far we're using tomcat 6 and codehaus' tomcat-maven-
plugin
[1] in order to deploy .war artifacts to remote tomcat installments
(both testing and production systems). And I am curious to see whether
there's something like that for geronimo (2.x), some maven2 plugin
that
allows for building and remote deployment of war, ear, EJB jars in
a way
similar to the tomcat approach. So far I just stumbled across [2]
which
mainly seems to deal with deploying to locally installed geronimo
instances and, asides that, leaves quite a bunch of questions
unanswered
(including how to actually integrate these plugins with maven2 in
order
to build and then deploy, say, an arbitrary war artifact to a geronimo
server). [3] unfortunately completely avoids talking about maven2.
Can any of the kind souls on this list enlighten me about this?
Many thanks in advance, kind regards.
Kristian
[1]http://mojo.codehaus.org/tomcat-maven-plugin/deployment.html
[2]http://geronimo.apache.org/maven/server/maven-plugins/geronimo-
maven-plugin/index.html
[3]http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-ag-remotedeploy/
index.html
