2 Replies Latest reply on Feb 23, 2004 10:07 AM by tom.baeyens

    ant task for deploying ?

    tom.baeyens

      With a quick scan on the net and the forums I could not find anything about an ant task that deploys a package to the jboss deploy dir and waits till deployment is finished.

      For web-application deployments, I can use the ant-wait-task and specify a static unsecured page of the web-app. (although I'm not quite happy with this approach because I don't always have a static page)

      But for ejb-module deployments (or .ear's without a web-app) I don't now a better solution then throwing the jar file in the deployment dir, wait for a few seconds and hope for the best.

      The idea I have in mind is write an ant task like http://ant.apache.org/manual/OptionalTasks/serverdeploy.html for jboss and a corresponding deployment-listener-module (web-app?) that is deployed in jboss. The ant task would then register itself with the deployment-listener-module. The deployment-listener-module registers itself with the JMX registry to get notified of the deployment.

      Being lazy and all... somehow I got the feeling that there's got to be an easier way. Maybe even somebody else did it already or knows the easier solution. Now *that* would be geat :-)

      Regards,
      Tom Baeyens
      http://jbpm.org

      btw : congrats with the venture capital !

        • 1. Re: ant task for deploying ?
          mikefinn

          I have a similar dilemma, as I want to run some junits once everything is deployed. I have not had time to try yet, but one idea I had was to use jmx-console/html adapter to get the URL (via ant wait) for the installed EAR? Not sure what mbean gets deployed last in an EAR, but this one may be it:

          http://localhost:8080/jmx-console/HtmlAdaptor?action=inspectMBean&name=jboss.management.local%3AJ2EEServer%3DLocal%2Cj2eeType%3DJ2EEApplication%2Cname%3Dfoo.ear

          Admittedly a hack, and certainly not as slick as your suggestion. The JMX solution might be as simple as the ant task registering and listening to JMX notifications for a deployment-completed for the appropriate module. Not sure if there is such a notification, but it doesn't seem too big of a deal to implement.

          • 2. Re: ant task for deploying ?
            tom.baeyens

            I created a servlet that does a deployment and waits for the deployment to complete. The servlet takes as input a parameter called 'url'

            2 questions :
            1) Do you see any potential problems with this solution ?
            2) Do you have a simpler solution ?


            Servlet code

            package org.jbpm.ejb.deploy;
            
            import java.io.*;
            import java.util.*;
            import javax.management.*;
            import javax.servlet.*;
            import javax.servlet.http.*;
            
            public class DeployServlet extends HttpServlet {
            
             private static List deployed = new ArrayList();
            
             protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
             String url = request.getParameter("url");
            
             try {
             ObjectName objectName = new ObjectName("jboss.system:service=MainDeployer");
             Object[] args = new Object[] { url };
             String[] signature = new String[] { "java.lang.String" };
             getJBossMBeanServer().invoke(objectName, "deploy", args, signature);
            
             } catch (Exception e) {
             e.printStackTrace();
             throw new ServletException("couldn't deploy '" + url + "'");
             }
             }
            
             private MBeanServer getJBossMBeanServer() {
             for (Iterator i = MBeanServerFactory.findMBeanServer(null).iterator(); i.hasNext();) {
             MBeanServer server = (MBeanServer) i.next();
             if (server.getDefaultDomain().equals("jboss"))
             return server;
             }
             throw new IllegalStateException("No 'jboss' MBeanServer found!");
             }
            }
            




            Deployment descriptor
            <?xml version="1.0"?>
            
            <!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC
             "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN"
             "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd">
            
            <web-app>
            
             <display-name>jboss deployer</display-name>
             <description>jboss deployer</description>
            
             <servlet>
             <servlet-name>deployer</servlet-name>
             <servlet-class>org.jbpm.ejb.deploy.DeployServlet</servlet-class>
             <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
             </servlet>
            
             <servlet-mapping>
             <servlet-name>deployer</servlet-name>
             <url-pattern>/deploy</url-pattern>
             </servlet-mapping>
            
            </web-app>