5 Replies Latest reply on Mar 28, 2014 4:00 AM by emmartins

How to automatically create data sources and security domains with deployment descriptors?

shinzey Mar 26, 2014 9:11 AM

I'm switching from GlassFish to WildFly. Previously, I can use GlassFish specific deployment descriptors to automatically creaete data sources and security realms (== WildFly security domains) during the deployment time, so I don't need to manually create them from console. I'm wondering if I can do the same in WildFly? I've Googled but only found pieces of information or documents for very old versions of JBoss. It's quite appreciated if you can give some examples or direct me to related documents or threads.

By the way, WildFly is really impressive, especially it starts much faster than GlasaFish.

1. Re: How to automatically create data sources and security domains with deployment descriptors?

emmartins Mar 26, 2014 3:15 PM (in response to shinzey)

The Java EE 7 specification (EE.5.18.3) allows you to create Datasources in the standard web, ejb and application XML descriptors, through <datasource/>, or you may use instead the DatasourceDefinition annotation.

Wrt security domains, I may be wrong, but I think there is no such feature, but perhaps using WildFly's CLI in non-interactive mode serves the purpose?
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2. Re: Re: How to automatically create data sources and security domains with deployment descriptors?

shinzey Mar 27, 2014 4:08 AM (in response to emmartins)

Thanks for the tip, Eduardo! The <data-source> tag in web.xml works, but it's strange that the created data source is invisible from admin console.

For security domain, I found JBoss 6 already have this feature with jboss-beans.xml:
Chapter 7. Dynamic Security Domains

And WildFly 8 also declares to support that:
How do I migrate my application from AS5 or AS6 to WildFly - WildFly 8 - Project Documentation Editor
Although AS 7 no longer uses service-style descriptors, the container supports these service-style deployments without change where possible. This means that if you used jboss-service.xml or jboss-beans.xml deployment descriptors in your AS5/AS6 application, they should run with little or no modification in AS 7. (Not sure why it's still using AS 7...)

However when I add a jboss-beans.xml to WEB-INF, an error occurs:
Unexpected element '{urn:jboss:bean-deployer:2.0}application-policy' encountered

Changing application-policy to security-domain doesn't help.

Does WildFly no longer support boss-beans.xml? Is there any replacement?
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3. Re: Re: How to automatically create data sources and security domains with deployment descriptors?

emmartins Mar 27, 2014 7:01 AM (in response to shinzey)

1) Only datasources in the server configuration will show in the admin console.

2) I think the support for jboss-beans.xml deployments is limited to creation of legacy beans. Can you share the GF XML descriptor? Maybe there is something else that provides the functionality you need.
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4. Re: How to automatically create data sources and security domains with deployment descriptors?

shinzey Mar 27, 2014 9:28 AM (in response to emmartins)

I did a double check and found GF deployment descriptors support only data sources, no security realms. Sorry for the mistake.

I've created a feature request for dynamic security deployment:
[WFLY-3179] Dynamic Deployment of Security Domain - JBoss Issue Tracker
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5. Re: How to automatically create data sources and security domains with deployment descriptors?

emmartins Mar 28, 2014 4:00 AM (in response to shinzey)

You should be able to use jboss-cli in non interactive mode to configure the security domain before deploying. See Management Clients - WildFly 8 - Project Documentation Editor
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