On Mar 9, 2009, at 7:34 PM, James D Carroll wrote:
I really hate hijack the OP, but in truth none of the scenarios you
mentioned are what I'd like to be able to do:
My group creates products that other areas of the company may or may
not
find useful. Vacation tracker, time sheets, workflow, whatever. What
I'm trying to make the case for is that instead of those groups
running
on our servers (and us getting the bill), we give them a copy of
Geronimo and show them how to point to and install only those
applications/plugins that they want from the Admin Console. Creating a
custom server for them to start would certainly be possible and easy
enough to do from what I can see, but at the end of the day, we want
to
basically say "Here's your container, here's the repository of what we
make, grab what you want".
As for Maven, all I can say is that every time I've tried to use it
(in
Eclipse) I've just gotten very frustrated. I'm sure its much more my
problem than Maven's and it looks like it has TONS to offer. I just
don't have the patience to get it right.
I think there are two ways to do this:
1. non-maven (relies on running scripts by hand, editing files by
hand, difficult to automate)
Set up a geronimo instance somewhere to use as your geronimo plugin
repository. Deploy your apps into it, and either copy a suitable
geronimo-plugin.xml into the appropriate place in the unpacked plugin
in the geronimo repository or edit it using the admin console. (I
haven't checked the admin console geronimo-plugin.xml editor recently
to see how functional it is)
2. maven (more automated, pretty much everything important is in scm)
Build your apps into plugins using maven with the car-maven-plugin.
The geronimo-plugin.xml will be constructed for you from your
pom.xmls. At this point you can either install your plugins into a
geronimo instance somewhere acting as your geronimo plugin repository
or use maven to deploy into nexus.
If you deploy into geronimo, geronimo will generate a plugin catalog
for you. If you use nexus, you'll have to generate one yourself and
make it available somewhere. (I guess you can deploy it as an
artifact in nexus?? I haven't tried this) The car-maven-plugin will
update a local plugin catalog for you automatically and there's also a
goal to scan your local repo and construct a catalog.
I've been using maven for years and can't quite imagine life without
it, despite all the annoyances. I've just recently tried using it in
eclipse, using m2eclipse and I'm not sure how much added value that
brings. Help with editing poms is nice but I haven't found much use
for eclipse running maven for me.
thanks
david jencks
Thanks!
On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 11:19 -0700, David Jencks wrote:
Could you outline your goal a little more from a higher level
viewpoint?
If you are trying to produce a consistent reproducible server image
with known contents through your build system I recommend
assembling a
custom server using maven.
If you are trying to install plugins to an existing server using
scripts I recommend gshell.
If you are building plugins using maven (highly recommended) I
recommend sonatype nexus as a remote plugin repository. You can
easily set up a company-wide nexus instance and arrange for maven to
deploy your plugins into it.
IIRC in trunk the geronimo-maven-plugin can also be used to install
plugins into a running geronimo server. I don't recall if this made
it into the 2.1.x series.
thanks
david jencks
On Mar 9, 2009, at 10:50 AM, RickI wrote:
You can also use tomcat/jetty that comes with geronimo to expose
repo via
http.
What I try to do is to install plugin from remote repo without web
console.
I try to do it from ant by calling deploy command line tool,
or from java code by calling gbean.
Thanks,
Ricky
RunHua Chi wrote:
Alright, to accomplish what you expected, it's more likely about
how to
set
up a http server and expose the file via http url.
Here is the topic for your information.
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/sections.html.(Assume you are
using
Apache
http server.)
And farming,load balancing and clustering topics using Geronimo,
please
refer to
http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/GMOxDOC22/Clustering+and+farming
Jeff Chi
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 11:35 AM, James D Carroll <
[email protected]> wrote:
The example showed 2 'remote' repositories (for apache) as does my
local
install, so that's why I was thinking that it was possible.
And the scenario you gave of a company wide repository is
precisely why
I was asking. I work at a very large/ global company and my group
creates web based apps, but in PHP running on Apache. I'm trying
to make
the case that we should move to Java/Geronimo so that we can
create the
code and post it to the repository. Then the other areas could
come and
get it whenever they wanted; perhaps to a test instance first,
then
their prod server could pick it up from there when it was
approved.
I haven't tried it either; Networking is my kryptonite and
gettin it
runnin in VirtualBox is gonna kill me. :) I wanna workthrough/
understand farming/load balancing/clustering too.
Thanks!
On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 08:44 +0800, chi runhua wrote:
James, the page you mentioned is about how to build a local
plugin
repository and import plugins from it. I guess it could be
applied to
the remote repository as well, as long as you have a
geronimo-plugins.xml and all plugins ready for import.
For example, you have a remote repository with url http:\
\www.yourcompany.com\plugins, and you've already placed a
geronimo-plugins.xml file in. Then add your url to your
repository
list from geronimo admin console and plugins will be listed for
install.
I didn't try the scenario yet, but I think it's possible.
Anything incorrect or misleading, please someone, just hop in.
Jeff Chi
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 5:42 AM, James D Carroll
<[email protected]> wrote:
I'm confused. Isn't this page saying that it is possible:
http://cwiki.apache.org/GMOxDOC22/converting-applications-into-plugins-using-the-administrative-console.html
Namely the ability to have an instance of Geronimo point at
another (or
at least some remote reposotory) and install new
features/apps.
Maybe that wasn't the OPs question, but I was hoping you
could
clarify
that for me.
Thanks,
On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 13:31 -0800, David Jencks wrote:
On Mar 6, 2009, at 12:41 PM, RickI wrote:
Hi,
Is there any gbean that can be use to install plugin from
remote
repository?
The PluginInstallerGBean is used to do this from the console
and from
gshell.
thanks
david jencks
Thanks,
Ricky
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