Maven: Deployment of just the ear-file

[jensmander]

Hi,

I have an EJB3 project which I'd like to build and afterwards deploy it on the JBossAS 5 server. This works pretty well if I exceute

cd myProject
mvn clean package install

and

cd my-ear
mvn jboss:hard-deploy

in separat steps. But what I really want is to do this in one single maven call so I can use it from within eclise in an easy way. Unfortuantely the pom-file of the project doesn't except the goal jboss:hard-deploy -Dfilename=my-ear/my-ear.ear

May anybody tell me how to combine the building and deployment process? Thank a lot.

Sascha

[jaikiran]

I haven't tried it with a multi module project, but does this work from the "myProject" folder:

mvn clean install jboss:hard-deploy

[jensmander]

Hi Jaikiran,

thanks for your quick relpy to my post. What you metioned works fine from my every single module but not from the project's root folder.

This is my structure

myProject/
 ... my-api
 ... my-ear
 ... my-entity
 ... my-impl
 ... pom.xml

and this is the pom-file of "myProject"

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <groupId>org.myProject</groupId>
    <artifactId>myProject</artifactId>
    <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <packaging>pom</packaging>
    <name>Duck</name>
    <properties>
        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
    </properties>

    <dependencies>
    </dependencies>
    <distributionManagement>
        <repository>
            <id>nexus</id>
            <url>http://...</url>
        </repository>
        <snapshotRepository>
            <id>nexus</id>
            <url>http://...</url>
        </snapshotRepository>
    </distributionManagement>
    <modules>
        <module>my-api</module>
        <module>my-impl</module>
        <module>my-entity</module>
        <module>my-ear</module>
    </modules>
</project>

May you tell me how you deploy ear-files in a development environment if you don't do it like that? For testing and debugging reasons I often need to deploy my application and take a look how it works so I'm trying to find a solution how to deploy the app with just one "click/call" instead of building and deploying it separately. Is there another way to do it so I picked a totally wrong way? It would be nice if you can give me some expert advice how to build and deploy such projects.

Sascha

[jaikiran]

May you tell me how you deploy ear-files in a development environment if  you don't do it like that? For testing and debugging reasons I often  need to deploy my application and take a look how it works so I'm trying  to find a solution how to deploy the app with just one "click/call"  instead of building and deploying it separately. Is there another way to do it so I picked a totally wrong way? It would  be nice if you can give me some expert advice how to build and deploy  such projects.

Sascha, personally I don't use any IDE for deploying my applications. And I also try to avoid any of the Maven plugins for deploying my applications. Some might consider it silly, but I personally find it more easy to either manually do the deployment or use an Ant script to do it. I did try out Maven plugins to do the deployment, when I first got introduced to Maven. But I found it to be more of a pain (due to various issues) than any actual help.

Maybe someone else from the community will be able to suggest you an IDE based or Maven based approach.

[jensmander]

Hey,

thanks so maybe anybody else has some hints