Exploded deployments

[objectiser]

Hi

Would it be possible to enable a component to indicate whether it required an exploded deployment, and for the AS6/7 integrations to use that info to determine whether it should explode the deployment before activating the component? (Also making the exploded path available to the component).

The problem I have is that ODE expects everything to be expanded in the file system, and to change it to use the virtual filesystem approach would be a significant change.

In general it probably would not be a good idea for the switchyard components to use AS6/7 specific stuff anyway, to make it more portable.

Alternatively I could explode the jar into a tmp area, bypassing the virtual filesystem, just to enable ODE to load the relevant artifacts and compile the bpel process?

Regards

Gary

[kcbabo]

Hey Gary,

Is this as an alternative to the approach where we simply require an exploded deployment if a given component is used?

cheers,

keith

[kcbabo]

And by "we require" I mean that it's a requirement stated in the documentation.

[objectiser]

Hi Keith

Yes the last para was intended to provide an alternative solution that would not require any change to switchyard, in case you preferred not to provide such a mechanism.

However when I implemented this alternative mechanism (as a temporary workaround for now to make progress) I found that I needed to use AS7 specific knowledge to locate the deployment jar.

The variable 'jboss.server.deploy.dir' unfortunately points to $as7/standalone/data/content, which always appears to be empty, instead of the expected $as7/standalone/deployments folder.

So although I could provide a configurable mechanism to support different containers, if this may become a common requirement then it might be better supported in switchyard.

Regards

Gary

[objectiser]

Hi Keith

Just to let you know, this is no longer a requirement for the bpel component, as for other reasons I need to control the unpacking of the switchyard app containing the bpel processes.

Regards

Gary