Client Application Container
Hi, I am currently trying to port a number of Java SE applications to a Geronimo app server. We are still looking to keep the fat client gui's as our ui for the applications, with a web app for the read only aspects. As I'm new to Geronimo I have a few questions: If a swing ui is deployed as an app client, what benefits are there over a standalone client accessing the ejb jars (aside from using the server side VM)? Is there any need to deploy standalone clients to the server? If the swing ui is deployed as an app client, is the user required to have access to the geronimo bin/client.jar? If I separate business logic (deplyed as ejb jars) from the swing ui how can I access these from the deployed ui application. I am already aware of how to do this with a standalone client? Sorry for all the questions, but I am finding some rather large holes in the geronimo documentation for use with fat clients. Thanks in advance. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Client-Application-Container-tp24841075s134p24841075.html Sent from the Apache Geronimo - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
war framework / external jar setup
Hi erveryone, I need some advice on the following situation. We have a war with a framework which based on configuration in the database and use of reflection dynamically can call a method of a java class. When this class is present in a jar (lets call it impl.jar) which is located in WEB-INF/lib it works as expected. However what I want to accomplish is: 1) have the impl.jar not included in the WEB-INF but at an alternate external location, so for a new impl.jar we need not redeploy the war 2) once the jar has been altered I probably need to force a reload of the classes already loaded by the Geronimo classloader. Is this possible and how can this be accomplished When I am completely off the track or have any other advice which could help me just point me in the right direction, any documentation or google terms will be appreciated. Kind regards, Marco Laponder
Re: war framework / external jar setup
Here are some thoughts for your reference. First, unpack your jar and use --inPlace option[1] to deploy it into Geronimo Repository, then add a dependency in the deployment plan of war[2]. Doc for reference. [1]http://cwiki.apache.org/GMOxDOC22/deploy.html#deploy-Deploy [2] http://cwiki.apache.org/GMOxDOC22/adding-jars-to-the-geronimo-repository.html#AddingJARstotheGeronimorepository-Definethedependencyinthedeploymentplan Jeff C On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Marco Laponder marco.lapon...@kewill.comwrote: Hi erveryone, I need some advice on the following situation. We have a war with a framework which based on configuration in the database and use of reflection dynamically can call a method of a java class. When this class is present in a jar (lets call it impl.jar) which is located in WEB-INF/lib it works as expected. However what I want to accomplish is: 1) have the impl.jar not included in the WEB-INF but at an alternate external location, so for a new impl.jar we need not redeploy the war 2) once the jar has been altered I probably need to force a reload of the classes already loaded by the Geronimo classloader. Is this possible and how can this be accomplished When I am completely off the track or have any other advice which could help me just point me in the right direction, any documentation or google terms will be appreciated. Kind regards, Marco Laponder
RE: war framework / external jar setup
I can't seem to get the -inPlace option to work, I am trying: deploy -u system -p manager install-library --groupId com.test --inPlace c:\inplace This gives me the error: Too many arguments. Help for command: install-library install-library [--groupId grp] LibraryFile Installs a library file into repository. If a groupId is provided, the library file will be installed under that groupId. Otherwise, default will be used. The artifactId, version and type are computed from the library file name which should be in the form artifactId-version.type, for e.g. mylib-1.0.jar. Do I need a specific version of Geronimo or am I doing something else incorrect ? Kind regards, Marco Van: chi runhua [mailto:chirun...@gmail.com] Verzonden: donderdag 6 augustus 2009 14:35 Aan: user@geronimo.apache.org Onderwerp: Re: war framework / external jar setup Here are some thoughts for your reference. First, unpack your jar and use --inPlace option[1] to deploy it into Geronimo Repository, then add a dependency in the deployment plan of war[2]. Doc for reference. [1]http://cwiki.apache.org/GMOxDOC22/deploy.html#deploy-Deploy [2]http://cwiki.apache.org/GMOxDOC22/adding-jars-to-the-geronimo-reposit ory.html#AddingJARstotheGeronimorepository-Definethedependencyinthedeplo ymentplan Jeff C On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Marco Laponder marco.lapon...@kewill.com wrote: Hi erveryone, I need some advice on the following situation. We have a war with a framework which based on configuration in the database and use of reflection dynamically can call a method of a java class. When this class is present in a jar (lets call it impl.jar) which is located in WEB-INF/lib it works as expected. However what I want to accomplish is: 1) have the impl.jar not included in the WEB-INF but at an alternate external location, so for a new impl.jar we need not redeploy the war 2) once the jar has been altered I probably need to force a reload of the classes already loaded by the Geronimo classloader. Is this possible and how can this be accomplished When I am completely off the track or have any other advice which could help me just point me in the right direction, any documentation or google terms will be appreciated. Kind regards, Marco Laponder
Re: war framework / external jar setup
Unpack your jar to c:\myjar, then use deploy -u system -p manager deploy --inPlace c:\myjar this should work, just tried on my side. Jeff C On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Marco Laponder marco.lapon...@kewill.comwrote: I can’t seem to get the –inPlace option to work, I am trying: deploy -u system -p manager install-library --groupId com.test --inPlace c:\inplace This gives me the error: Too many arguments. Help for command: install-library install-library [--groupId grp] LibraryFile Installs a library file into repository. If a groupId is provided, the library file will be installed under that groupId. Otherwise, default will be used. The artifactId, version and type are computed from the library file name which should be in the form artifactId-version.type, for e.g. mylib-1.0.jar. Do I need a specific version of Geronimo or am I doing something else incorrect ? Kind regards, Marco -- *Van:* chi runhua [mailto:chirun...@gmail.com] *Verzonden:* donderdag 6 augustus 2009 14:35 *Aan:* user@geronimo.apache.org *Onderwerp:* Re: war framework / external jar setup Here are some thoughts for your reference. First, unpack your jar and use --inPlace option[1] to deploy it into Geronimo Repository, then add a dependency in the deployment plan of war[2]. Doc for reference. [1]http://cwiki.apache.org/GMOxDOC22/deploy.html#deploy-Deploy [2] http://cwiki.apache.org/GMOxDOC22/adding-jars-to-the-geronimo-repository.html#AddingJARstotheGeronimorepository-Definethedependencyinthedeploymentplan Jeff C On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Marco Laponder marco.lapon...@kewill.com wrote: Hi erveryone, I need some advice on the following situation. We have a war with a framework which based on configuration in the database and use of reflection dynamically can call a method of a java class. When this class is present in a jar (lets call it impl.jar) which is located in WEB-INF/lib it works as expected. However what I want to accomplish is: 1) have the impl.jar not included in the WEB-INF but at an alternate external location, so for a new impl.jar we need not redeploy the war 2) once the jar has been altered I probably need to force a reload of the classes already loaded by the Geronimo classloader. Is this possible and how can this be accomplished When I am completely off the track or have any other advice which could help me just point me in the right direction, any documentation or google terms will be appreciated. Kind regards, Marco Laponder
RE: war framework / external jar setup
Jeff, Are there any restrictions on the jar ? The jar only contains a POJO but it seems it expects a J2EE deployment descriptor. It gives me the error: Error: Unable to distribute inplace: Cannot deploy the requested application module because no deployer is able to handle it. This can happen if you have omitted the J2EE deployment descriptor, disabled a deployer module, or if, for example, you are trying to deploy an EJB module on a minimal Geronimo server that does not have EJB support installed. (moduleFile=c:\inplace) Kind regards, Marco Van: chi runhua [mailto:chirun...@gmail.com] Verzonden: donderdag 6 augustus 2009 15:17 Aan: user@geronimo.apache.org Onderwerp: Re: war framework / external jar setup Unpack your jar to c:\myjar, then use deploy -u system -p manager deploy --inPlace c:\myjar this should work, just tried on my side. Jeff C On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Marco Laponder marco.lapon...@kewill.com wrote: I can't seem to get the -inPlace option to work, I am trying: deploy -u system -p manager install-library --groupId com.test --inPlace c:\inplace This gives me the error: Too many arguments. Help for command: install-library install-library [--groupId grp] LibraryFile Installs a library file into repository. If a groupId is provided, the library file will be installed under that groupId. Otherwise, default will be used. The artifactId, version and type are computed from the library file name which should be in the form artifactId-version.type, for e.g. mylib-1.0.jar. Do I need a specific version of Geronimo or am I doing something else incorrect ? Kind regards, Marco Van: chi runhua [mailto:chirun...@gmail.com] Verzonden: donderdag 6 augustus 2009 14:35 Aan: user@geronimo.apache.org Onderwerp: Re: war framework / external jar setup Here are some thoughts for your reference. First, unpack your jar and use --inPlace option[1] to deploy it into Geronimo Repository, then add a dependency in the deployment plan of war[2]. Doc for reference. [1]http://cwiki.apache.org/GMOxDOC22/deploy.html#deploy-Deploy [2]http://cwiki.apache.org/GMOxDOC22/adding-jars-to-the-geronimo-reposit ory.html#AddingJARstotheGeronimorepository-Definethedependencyinthedeplo ymentplan Jeff C On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Marco Laponder marco.lapon...@kewill.com wrote: Hi erveryone, I need some advice on the following situation. We have a war with a framework which based on configuration in the database and use of reflection dynamically can call a method of a java class. When this class is present in a jar (lets call it impl.jar) which is located in WEB-INF/lib it works as expected. However what I want to accomplish is: 1) have the impl.jar not included in the WEB-INF but at an alternate external location, so for a new impl.jar we need not redeploy the war 2) once the jar has been altered I probably need to force a reload of the classes already loaded by the Geronimo classloader. Is this possible and how can this be accomplished When I am completely off the track or have any other advice which could help me just point me in the right direction, any documentation or google terms will be appreciated. Kind regards, Marco Laponder
Re: war framework / external jar setup
For easy, try the second linked doc using the admin console. Or If the command has any problem(in fact,it works smoothly), you can manually create a repository directory in geronimo-home/repository.suppose the jar is impl.jar, put it into a directory,like geronimo-home/repository/com/group/impl/impl.jar And then add a dependency in you deployment plan,like dependencies dependency groupIdcom.group/groupId artifactIdimpl/artifactId typejar/type /dependency /dependencies -- Best Regards, Rodger.
Re: war framework / external jar setup
Quote from Doc The --inPlace option allows you point to and deploy an application directly from a directory external to Geornimo without the need for even packaging the application. So the jar should be unpacked and in its full-blown structure. In this way, you can update the classes within it without redeploying. After the directory is deployed, insert the dependency in the deployment plan of your WAR. Hope this answers your question. Jeff C
Re: war framework / external jar setup
While the suggestion of deploying your entire app in-place will almost certainly work, it has a number of limitations -- in-place is really only designed for development and does not work well with the geronimo plugin packaging and distribution system. What may work better for you is to deploy your jar directly into the geronimo repository and include a dependency on it in the geronimo plan for your web app. If you update the jar (copying the new version on top of the old one in the geronimo repository) then if you restart the web app you will see the new classes. This method works well with maven and geronimo plugins. For instance, if your jar and web app are built with maven, and you pre-package your app as a geronimo plugin, installing the plugin into a geronimo instance will also pull in the external jar. hope this helps david jencks On Aug 6, 2009, at 4:34 AM, Marco Laponder wrote: Hi erveryone, I need some advice on the following situation. We have a war with a framework which based on configuration in the database and use of reflection dynamically can call a method of a java class. When this class is present in a jar (lets call it impl.jar) which is located in WEB-INF/lib it works as expected. However what I want to accomplish is: 1) have the impl.jar not included in the WEB-INF but at an alternate external location, so for a new impl.jar we need not redeploy the war 2) once the jar has been altered I probably need to force a reload of the classes already loaded by the Geronimo classloader. Is this possible and how can this be accomplished When I am completely off the track or have any other advice which could help me just point me in the right direction, any documentation or google terms will be appreciated. Kind regards, Marco Laponder
Re: Daytrader plugins not installable on Geronimo 2.1.3
Thanks for the help, I eventually got things working by compiling from the 2.1.3 branch. Alternativly you can use http://download.boulder.ibm.com/ibmdl/pub/software/websphere/wasce/plugins-2.1.1.1/ http://download.boulder.ibm.com/ibmdl/pub/software/websphere/wasce/plugins-2.1.1.1/ for Geronimo 2.1.3 or http://download.boulder.ibm.com/ibmdl/pub/software/websphere/wasce/plugins-2.1.1.2/ http://download.boulder.ibm.com/ibmdl/pub/software/websphere/wasce/plugins-2.1.1.2/ for Geronimo 2.1.4. Vamsavardhana Reddy-2 wrote: Build the daytrader application from 2.1.3 branch URL http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/geronimo/daytrader/branches/2.1.3/ -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Daytrader-plugins-%22not-installable%22-on-Geronimo-2.1.3-tp24821056s134p24858036.html Sent from the Apache Geronimo - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Deploy EJBCA to Geronimo
Hi. I am new to Geronimo and actually any of the java middleware. I find Geronimo started very quickly in my old PC (with 256MB RAM only) and I want to deploy a J2EE PKI Certification system called EJBCA to Geronimo. Can anyone give me some advice or how to begin with? The website of EJBCA is provided below. https://sourceforge.net/projects/ejbca/ Thanks. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Deploy-EJBCA-to-Geronimo-tp24858503s134p24858503.html Sent from the Apache Geronimo - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: Deploy EJBCA to Geronimo
On Aug 6, 2009, at 9:10 PM, stupidtss wrote: Hi. I am new to Geronimo and actually any of the java middleware. I find Geronimo started very quickly in my old PC (with 256MB RAM only) and I want to deploy a J2EE PKI Certification system called EJBCA to Geronimo. Can anyone give me some advice or how to begin with? The website of EJBCA is provided below. https://sourceforge.net/projects/ejbca/ It is not very obvious to me what ejbca does and there doesn't appear to be any obvious documentation. Geronimo ships with some CA tools, you might want to look at them and see if they are adequate. If not, unless you find someone who has already deployed ejbca to geronimo, you will probably have to do some experimentation. I would imagine it is a javaee application, so the first thing to do is to try to deploy it on geronimo. You will probably need a geronimo plan. The geronimo admin console has some tools to help write plans, and the geronimo eclipse plugin also has some tools. If you investigate enough to figure out what the application modules are and what kinds of problems you have when deploying you would be in a much better position to ask for help. thanks david jencks Thanks. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Deploy-EJBCA-to-Geronimo-tp24858503s134p24858503.html Sent from the Apache Geronimo - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
