Re: At wits end with jboss-struts new build system!

Max:

On Sun, 2004-08-01 at 12:25, maxxam-cuDQgYkrLFxfAa1EqD/[email protected] wrote:
> Hi Mike,
> 
> Thanks for the response. I have indeed tried to build and manually deploy
> a war file, however the war file only seems to contain the client side of
> keel and also the web.xml file throws an exception when loaded by jboss.

Ah - Ok, I didn't realize you were deploying a "two-part" application,
where the Keel server is separate from the client & webapp. It's
possible to deploy a single war, just use the "non-jboss" configuration,
such as the example-projects/default/ant.properties. This deployment
would do everything in a single war, if that's what you wanted to do.

> I have looked at the configuration options for jboss and can't find a
> place to direct it to a webapps expanded directory. Jboss has the
> following startup configuration options:

I think there is a mechanism to do this, but I don't recall immediately
how to go about it. It has to do with placing a configuration file in
the deploy directory that points to the webapp.

> 
> help - shows the help message, example below
> version - shows the JBoss version
> D - defines a system property, e.g. -Djava.rmi.hostname=localhost
> patchdir - a directory containing jars to be used instead of the default
> kernel jars
> netboot - the url containing the jboss image that will be loaded
> configuration - the name of the server configuration, e.g. minimal,
> default, all
> jaxp - the JAXP implementation to use (a short cut instead of using -D
> options) currently xerces and crimson are supported
> library - add additional jars from the /lib folder to the bootstrap
> classloader
> classpath - add an extra url to the classpath (by default run.jar and
> tools.jar)
> properties - a url containing a properties file to set as system properties
> host - the host or ip address used by jboss services as the binding
> address (equivalent to -Djboss.bind.address=host), e.g. -b localhost
> 
> Perhaps there is a system property that can be defined?
> 
> Anyway, I would offer my help in looking at the build scripts but it is
> something that I understand very little about.

I'll see if I can get the example updated again. What rev of JBoss are
you working with?

Mike

> 
> Thanks again,
> Max
> 
> 
> > Max:
> >
> > My apologies for not chiming in on this earlier... Have you tried the
> > "ant war" command to crank out the war file? With the new build system,
> > no war file is generated until/unless you request one - only the webapp
> > dir, which is "expanded".
> >
> > jboss-start simply starts up Jboss, just as a convenience, like
> > tomcat-start. It doesn't necessarily deploy your app
> >
> > I think the problem is that most of the Keel developers use Tomcat
> > initially, and the config to point Tomcat to the webapp directory is
> > done. I know JBoss can do the same thing, but in the meantime if you
> > generate your war with "ant war", then just copy it to the deploy
> > directory in Jboss, that should get you started at least. I'll see if I
> > can have a look at the deploy scripts to make this more straightforward,
> > but time is tight for the next couple of weeks...
> >
> > HTH!
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > On Sat, 2004-07-31 at 08:56, maxxam-cuDQgYkrLFxfAa1EqD/[email protected] wrote:
> >> Can someone please, *please* point me in the right direction with
> >> deploying jboss-struts using the new build system.
> >>
> >> I cannot for the life of me deploy the example jboss-struts. It builds
> >> just fine but when running "ant jboss-start" *nothing* is deployed!?!
> >> Nothing is copied to the jboss deploy directory! No war file is created!
> >>
> >> Must I:
> >>
> >> 1) Somehow create linked directories from the jboss deploy directory to
> >> the webapps and/or server directories that gets created during the build
> >> process?
> >> 2) Somehow configure jboss that the deployment is in a different
> >> directory?
> >> 3) Create a war file and deploy that manually every time? I did this and
> >> the war file a) doesn't work and b) doesn't appear to have the keel
> >> server
> >> in it.
> >> 4) Post this question on the developer mailing list?
> >> 5) Quit using keel as I'm too stupid?
> >>
> >> Is *anyone* out there successfully using jboss-struts using the new
> >> build
> >> system and keel cvs? Is it just me doing something wrong or is the
> >> jboss-struts broekn in cvs?
> >>
> >> I've tried two previous posts to try to illicit some kind of help from
> >> this mailing list without any response. I searched the wiki, the
> >> quickstart manual, google, the jboss deployment manual, the mailing list
> >> and just cannot find any information on this.
> >>
> >> I have a functioning wireless/struts application under keel-2.0. Should
> >> I
> >> just forget the wiki advice to only use the CVS version of keel and stay
> >> with 2.0?
> >>
> >> Thank you anyone for *any* pointers to get past this problem.
> >>
> >> Struggling,
> >> Max
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