Looks like we never got this answered...
On Jun 28, 2008, at 12:12 AM, Kenson MAN wrote:
Dear All,
I'm a beginner of JEE application and Geronimo.
My environment:
Server (Geronimo 2.1.1) 192.168.0.100
Client[1..10] 192.168.0.101~192.168.0.1
The application is packaged in a EAR (including all EJB, client
application
and required library)
I'm going to develop a application (EJB3 + Swing) and running under
Geronimo
2.1.1. The application is running successfully in my testing
environment
(Eclipse 3.2). But I don't know how to deploy the client into the
production
machine (not the server).
I have take a look of the
http://cwiki.apache.org/GMOxDOC21/deploy-and-run-jee-application-client.html
and it told me that I can use the "java -jar client.jar
<ear-name>/<jar-name>" to startup my client console.
My question are:
- How does it work? Just copy the client.jar (from server) to each
client
and create the batch file that invoke client.jar??
FYI, there are already script files for starting an appclient. The doc
should refer to these, rather than launching java directly...
client.sh/.bat
or
gsh geronimo/start-client
Another option is to use a standalone client, rather than an
application client. This would reduce the number of jars that you'd
need.
WRT the required jars for an app client, afraid it's not so simple.
First, the META-INF/MANIFEST.MF in client.jar is going to add a number
of lib/ jars to your CLASSPATH. Then there'll be a number of artifacts
from repository/ and var/ that will be needed also.
What you really want is the ability to generate an app client plugin,
which could be used to generate an app client assembly. It would
certainly help your situation... At the moment probably easiest to
have a full server install.
- How to specified the host? If I running the batch file in
192.168.0.101,
how does it know that it will connect to 192.168.0.100?
We have a wiki page for this, I think. Somebody have a pointer?
- Is that support the JNLP? That will be great if the application can
startup from a URL.
Don't think so. I haven't looked at JNLP. Would be an interesting
topic for somebody to investigate.
--kevan
