Hi Torgeir!
Torgeir Veimo wrote:
I'm looking at the example shown here;
http://directory.apache.org/apacheds/1.5/embedding-apacheds-as-a-web-application.html
I've sort of gettng it to work by tweaking a bit with jar files, but I'm
also interested in packaging a server.xml file I've used with the
standalone ApacheDS setup. I had a look at
MutableServerStartupConfiguration to see if I could supply it with an
InputSource/Stream to server.xml, but it seems to only accept a File for
the working directory.
Any idea how to accomplish this? I'm planning to include an already
configured DIT tree with data, and would require the webapp to run
exploded, in order to allow it to use data from within the WEB-INF
directory.
I have created the example basically for demonstration purposes. It is
therefore as simple as possible. The server.xml file is a Spring bean
definition file, hence Spring is necessary to start up the server. For
embedded use, this is not necessary. The configuration is done
programmatically then. This is exactly what I wanted to show.
Basically, it is possible to achieve all features available in the
server.xml programatically as well. Spring is only used to wire the
beans. The server.xml is a good option to configure the server without
recompiling it. The example already takes advantage of the beans to some
degree, like here:
...
// Set LDAP port to 10389
LdapConfiguration ldapCfg = cfg.getLdapConfiguration();
ldapCfg.setIpPort(10389);
...
You can do more (I assume: everything).
Another option would be to deploy Spring with the webapp and modify the
startup class (StartStopListener) to use the same startup style which is
used standalone to fire up the server. In this case you may user the
server.xml as well. Obviously, you have to reworkthe example for this.
If you just want to deploy some data with ApacheDS. There are several
options. One is to provide an LDIF file for startup, which may be
included in the war-File (I have not tried this out, but it would be
nice to extend the example this way ...).
I hope this already helps a bit.
Greetings from Hamburg,
Stefan
