overriding deployment startup order on boot

[robdeheer]

Hello,

I have a specific requirement to start a set of war and ear files in a specific order. For example, module x, then module t, and after module t starts successfully, the rest of the modules. The original module deployments individually by an automated script, so the the stack starts properly in this case.

However, when the stack is restarted, the modules are started in alphabetical order. What's the best way to implement a deterministic module ordering and timing on startup? I have investigated overriding the boot classes, module dependency configuration... without luck.

Thanks,

Rob

[jmsjr]

Something like this:

https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/JBoss_Enterprise_Application_Platform/6.1/html/Administration_and_Configuration_Guide/Control_the_order_of_Deployed_Applications_on_JBoss_Enterprise_Application_Platform.html

The above will allow you control over the startup of EARs.

However, rereading your original question, it seems that you actually want to control startup of modules __within__ an EAR. That's already possible with the @DependsOn annotation.

[wdfink]

Did you mean modules or deployed applications?

For modules you need to set the correct dependencies in the module.xml

[robdeheer]

I meant deployed applications.

[erasmomarciano]

I don't understand your task

Probably you mean this:

http://www.mastertheboss.com/jboss-deploy/configuring-jboss-as-7-deployment-order

[wdfink]

You might add a jboss-all.xml to your EAR file, you'll find examples if you search for.

[robdeheer]

I was not able to get the jboss dependency config to work correctly. I hit some lib dependency issues where myear.ear has classpath dependencies on libs.war as well as an application deployment dependency on primarydependency.ear. All of the deployments depend on libs.war.

I'm going to try some variations with eap-6.2. My initial iterations were on 6.1.

Thanks for your help,

Rob