Wednesday, August 1, 2012

JBoss 7 and Maven Plugin

This days I play a lot with the latest version of JBoss Teiid (8.1.Beta2). As part of my development activity I have JBoss 7.1.1.Final running on my workstation, and I want to shorten my development cycle: modify code -> build war -> deploy. Yes, I know about JRebel, but today I want not to use it.
My project build tool is Maven, so solution is straight: use jboss-as-maven-plugin. I want to generate war file from maven and deploy it to standalone JBoss without restarting it.

Steps to follow


  • Define plugin in pom.xml. The definition below attaches to "clean" and "package" maven life cycles.
<project...>
    <build>
        ...
        <plugin>
                    <groupId>org.jboss.as.plugins</groupId>
                    <artifactId>jboss-as-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                    <version>7.1.1.Final</version>
            <configuration>
                <filename>${project.build.finalName}.war</filename>
            </configuration>
                    <executions>
                           <execution>
                                <id>undeploy</id>
                                <phase>clean</phase>
                                <goals>
                                    <goal>undeploy</goal>
                                </goals>
                                <configuration>                                           <ignoreMissingDeployment>

                                       true
                                   </ignoreMissingDeployment>
                                </configuration>
                           </execution>
                           <execution>
                                <phase>package</phase>
                                <goals>
                                    <goal>deploy</goal>
                                </goals>
                            </execution>
                    </executions>
            </plugin>
        ...
    </buiid>
</project
>


  • Optionally - create Eclipse launch configuration to execute "mvn package" or "mvn clean package".
  • Start JBoss, run launch configuration in Eclispe, check messages in your server log that new context is regustered and war file is deployed / replaced.

 

 What happens behind the scenes?

Usually deployed war files placed in <jboss7>/standalone/deployments folder (when standalone configuration used). After JBoss restart the war file gets deployed (new "xxxx.deployed" flag file gets created in the same folder).
In case of "jboss-as-maven-plugin" deployment, the <jboss7>/standalone/configuration/standalone.xml file gets modified: a new "<deployment>...</deployment>" added to it.
The actual deployed war file can be found now under one of the <jboss7>/standalone/data/content/ subfolders.

2 comments:

  1. Hi Andriy,

    Thanks for posting this. I have been searching for the exploded WAR although my WAR is deployed and I see an entry for this in standalone.xml. But in /standalone/data/content/subfolders, I just see a large encrypted file. Is JBoss encrypting the whole WAR to a file? Please correct me if I am wrong. Thanks.

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  2. JBoss does not encrypt the whole file, only changes the deployment name to some unique value. You still can rename it back and use if necessary (unzip, redeploy, etc.)

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