On Jun 19, 2009, at 6:04 PM, caof2005 wrote:
Hello folks,
With a newbe questions/request:
Can anybody refer me to any document/link which indicate me which
are the
steps to do a manual deployment without using the deployment tool
(deploy )
?
I'm using Geronimo 2.1.3 with Tomcat 6
I tried to follow the oldie/classic example of building a dynamic
project by
hand (no IDE's, nor deploy tool at all) just using the java, javac
and jar
command line tools.
Why? I can't begin to enumerate all the mistakes you can make setting
up even a simple javaee project with these tools. At least use maven,
it will make it much more plausible that you will end up with a
correct artifact structure.
Since you seem to be interested in using spec-compliant tools you
should use our jsr-88 deployer. This is the only spec-compliant way
to deploy an ee application to an ee server. The command line
interface of our deployer is not specified by the spec but the
communication between the tool and the server is, so you can use
another jsr-88 deployer if you can find one.
So I tried to manually define the basic directory deployment
structure shown
in 4.X, 5.X versions of Tomcat:
webapps
--MyApp_Directory
---WEB-INF
----web.xml
----geronimo-web.xml
----lib
----classes
----com
----example
-------web
----------classA.class
-------model
----------classB.class
But I couldn't find any "tomcat" directory in Geronimo installation
directory which I can define inside that structure.
Tomcat's deployment mechanism is proprietary and not related to any ee
specs. We don't use it.
So the question is .... am I assuming correctly that I can manually
define
the deployment structure as I can do it in older versions of Tomcat?
no. When an app is deployed in geronimo it constructs a geronimo
plugin which in particular includes a file of serialized component
configuration. You can't construct one of these without deploying the
app in geronimo.
Or do I have to use the deployment tool (deploy) in order to
manually deploy
any application ?
There's a hot deploy directory but I really recommend against using
it. It's really not tooling friendly: for example there's no way to
tell if deployment has started, finished, or failed without using
something like the deploy tool with more complicated instructions that
deploying the app would use.
You can use the gshell based deploy commands, deploy from maven, the
command line deployer, the console.
My favorite is to build a geronimo plugin using maven and the car-
maven-plugin and assemble a server around your application that has
exactly the functionality needed for the app.
I hope this relates to your questions....
thanks
david jencks
Any guidance would be very appreciated.
Regards
Carlos
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