Advice on how to set up a network deployment

[andymcc]

I would like to configure 5.4.0.Final so that I can host JBoss, Guvnor etc on one system (in this case an ordinary Windows 7 PC) and run user consoles on several other systems (mixture of Windows PCs, laptops, BlackBerry PlayBook) over a LAN/WAN.

I will be working primarily from these resources

• A fairly recent community Article https://community.jboss.org/wiki/NetworkConfigurationJBPM54withBugFixes
• User Manual Section 11.5 http://docs.jboss.org/jbpm/v5.4/userguide/ch.designer.html#d0e4384

Can I please ask for the following advice:

• Are these two resources sufficient for what I want to do?
• Can I simply set the host to 0.0.0.0 in all cases (as implied by the first reference) or do I need to be more specific?
• Is this Article still relevant? https://community.jboss.org/wiki/JBPM-530FinalManualDeploymentGuideForBeginner
• Within designer my WorkDefinitions files (*.wid etc) contain hardcoded references to localhost and 8080. Do I need to go through and edit these by hand or will they be updated to reflect any changes I make?
• Have I missed any other articles that might be useful?
• Is there an easier way to do all of this?

Very grateful for any advice the community can offer! In return, if I can get it all to work I'll write it up in a new Article.

Thanks

Andy McC

jBPM 5.4.0.Final, Eclipse Helios (i.e. the default newbie set up), Windows 7 and 8

[andymcc]

OK I seem to have got this all set up and working. Most of the information was available from the links in my original post.

For the record, here's the steps I used:

1) I made the changes to standalone.xml, build.xml, conf/default.jbpm.console.properties and conf/guvnor.preferences.properties outlined in Network configuration jBPM5.4 (with Bug Fixes)

• I used host 0.0.0.0
• I did not apply the JPA2 changes
• ant clean.demo
• ant install.demo

2) In jbpm-human-task-war.war I updated the file WEB-INF/web.xml with the following changes:

• This step was essential to get task forms to work properly

<!-- HornetQ configuration parameters -->

<init-param>

     <param-name>hornetq.host</param-name>

     <param-value>0.0.0.0</param-value>

</init-param>

<init-param>

     <param-name>hornetq.port</param-name>

     <param-value>5153</param-value>

</init-param>

3) In Drools-Guvnor I changed WorkItemDefinitions file so that references to localhost:8080 became 0.0.0.0:8080

4) I noticed that ant stop.demo would not shutdown JBoss properly. To do so I modified build.xml as follows (approx line 799 onwards)

• NB This isn't ideal as the password and username data could be visible to other users. But it does what I need for the time being.

<target name="stop.jboss7" depends="check.jboss.version" if="jboss.version.is.7">

<exec executable="${jboss.home}/bin/jboss-cli.bat"

osfamily="windows">

<arg value="--controller=0.0.0.0:9999" />

<arg value="--user=<username>" />

<arg value="--password=<password>" />

<arg value="connect,:shutdown,exit" />

</exec>

<exec executable="${jboss.home}/bin/jboss-cli.sh" osfamily="unix">

<arg value="--connect" />

<arg value="command=:shutdown" />

</exec>

</target>

Hopefully others will find this useful.

Andy McC

[andymcc]

Sorry - I should have added that Step 2 was in line with jBPM-5.3.0.Final Manual Deployment Guide for Beginner

Andy McC