War deployment order in EAR

[shabata]

Hello !

I'm going through a migration from Websphere to JBoss.

My EAR contains multiple wars : one is called startup.war and need to be deployed first, another is called endstartup.war and need to be called last.

How can I configure this ?

I tried first to use my own URLComparator (DeploymentSorter) but it seems that this sorter is not used for sorting the wars inside my ear.

Then I saw that the deployment order is managed by the MainDeployer class using a private instance of DeploymentInfoComparator (http://www.cenqua.com/clover/eg/jboss/report/org/jboss/deployment/MainDeployer.html). There's no way to overload it.

I'm lost, thank you for your help

[dimitris]

Doesn't the order you declare the s in the .ear descriptor make any difference?

[shabata]

Thanx for replying.

"the s in the .ear" ?

I'm sorry I don't understand your question...

[dimitris]

The angle brackets where eaten up. I meant the "module" definitions in the .ear deployment descriptos, they were supposed to define the deployment order, or is this broken?

[shabata]

In my application.xml I declare the wars in the same order as deployment order, but I guess it doesn't care this order.

PS : I use jboss-3.2.8

[chrisodom]

I move my packaging from "eso-ear" to "eso-ear.ear" deploy and run JBoss. Now the ERROR does not occur but I am back to the same problem before when I switched it the opposite way. The eso-ear.ear/META-INF/XXX-ds.xml file does not get picked up so my Datasources do not get deployed. Any ideas why this would occur>

[pualsa]

try to pack into the EAR the META-INF\jboss-app.xml like this:

<jboss-app>
 <module><service>xxx-ds.xml</service></module>
</jboss-app>

in this case the file xxx-ds.xml should be packed on the top level of the EAR: eso-ear.ear\xxx-ds.xml

[pualsa]

What I found about the deployment order:
1) At first are deployed sub-deployments then the top deployment of an archive.
2) The sub-deployment are sorted by their suffixes. The default order is:
".deployer", "-deployer.xml", ".sar", "-service.xml", ".rar", "-ds.xml", ".har", ".jar", ".war", ".wsr", ".ear", ".zip", ".bsh", ".last"

The EARDeployer scans the META-INF/application.xml and META-INF/jboss-app.xml and creates a DeploymentInfo (DI) for each module. The DI of the EAR is the parent for these DIs. The deployment order of these modules is controlled by their suffixes, nothing else is important.