HOWTO: root.ear - tomcat 4.0.1 root application to deploy in

[dplante]

Here's the steps I took to create root.ear (using Windows ME). As soon as I can get file attachments working, I'll post it here :)

If someone would be so kind as to show me the steps to create this file using ant, that would be fantastic. I'm not up to speed up enough with ant to do this :(

This file has the contents of the $TOMCAT401HOME/webapps/ROOT web application.

If you copy this file to $JBOSSHOME/deploy, and make sure no other app is using the / context, (like jboss-root.ear),
then when you access http://localhost:8080 (assuming you haven't changed catalina's port from the default, and you've started jboss with catalina support), you'll see the catalina welcome page you'd be used to if you'd started catalina standalone and accessed http://localhost:8080.

Also, it wouldn't hurt to deploy the webapps that come with tomcat 4.0.1:
1. cd $CATALINAHOME\webapps\examples
2. jar -cvf examples.war *
3. mv examples.war $JBOSSHOME\deploy

(follow the same steps as above for tomcat-docs webapps)

I tried to pattern what's in jboss-root.ear. I wouldn't try putting both of these files in $JBOSSHOME\jboss\deploy !

Here's what I did ($JBOSSHOME = c:\jb244_tc401):

1. cd c:\jb244_tc401\catalina\webapps\ROOT

2. jar -cvf root.war *

3. mkdir c:\TEMPROOTWORK

4. move root.war c:\TEMPROOTWORK

5. cd c:\TEMPROOTWORK

6. mkdir meta-inf

7. create root.xml with the following contents:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC '-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.2//EN' 'http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/web-app_2_2.dtd'>

<web-app>
<session-config>
<session-timeout>
30
</session-timeout>
</session-config>
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>
index.jsp
</welcome-file>
<welcome-file>
index.html
</welcome-file>
<welcome-file>
index.htm
</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
</web-app>

8. Create application.xml in meta-inf with the following contents:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE application PUBLIC '-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD J2EE Application 1.2//EN' 'http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/application_1_2.dtd'>


<display-name>root</display-name>
Tomcat Root Application


<web-uri>root.war</web-uri>
<context-root>/</context-root>

<alt-dd>root.xml</alt-dd>



(optional) 9. Create a manifest.mf file in meta-inf with a couple carriage returns

10. execute 'jar -cvf root.ear *' from c:\TEMPROOTWORK

11. copy root.ear to c:\jb244_tc401\jboss\deploy

and you're ready to start jboss. If you go to http://localhost:8080, you'd swear you'd started tomcat standalone :)

[dplante]

Here's that EAR

[srivastava_manu]

Thanks a ton dplante. U saved a lot of trouble and time for me.
regards
Manu

[adrian.brock]

Hi dplante,

Do you want to add this to the FAQ forum?
Perhaps you can explain how to do an expanded ear
version as well?

You shouldn't really be authorised to post new topics
in the FAQ forum, but the authority appears to missing
at the moment :-)

Regards,
Adrian

[kstoll]

This thread is just one more reason why you should read old posts :) Thanks a ton dplante. You answered the question that I didn't even realize that I had until I ran across your post. Now I should be able to deploy the web based apps that I have been working with.

Thank You

[josephg12]

Ok, I followed the instructions and it didn't work for me. However I did download the root.ear someone put up and then it did work. So I guess I need to understand more about the process of creating *.jar, *.ear, *.war files and how they work inside jboss along with other j2ee applications. Can anyone point me to a good resource?
Thanks.

[mhortman]

I have not checked this, but it looks like a good place to start.

http://dcb.sun.com/practices/profiles/build.xml.html

Get Ant and go at it.