Re: New tomcat plugin

[Brian Ewins]

The deploy stuff is non-standard. We'd just annoy people who use <pick-any-other-server>. It would make more sense to do something like:

<goal name="war:deploy">
// if server is tomcat then...
<attainGoal name="tomcat:deploy"/>
// if server is iPlanet then...
<attainGoal name="iPlanet:deploy"/>
// etc...
</goal>

also, j2ee != war. There are a plethora of different *AR files you can deploy on j2ee servers; this tomcat goal is purely about deploying webapps on tomcat.

I remember there was supposed to be some JSRs standardising J2EE deployment and management (using JMX); dunno if they're finalized yet, but until they are, and are supported, there's going to be a need for per-platform goals.

-Baz

Alexei Barantsev wrote:

I'd suggest to add deploy goal to j2ee plugin instead of creating new
one (in addition to j2ee and war - may be these two would be merged
too?).

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Ewins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 6:37 PM
To: Turbine Maven Users List
Subject: Re: New tomcat plugin


Since no-one's replied... here it is. The zip is the source, to go in jakarta-turbine-maven/src/plugins-build, the jar should work if dropped into your plugins directory. Since there is no catalina-ant.jar in ibiblio, you will need to get one for yourself- download a release from: http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-tomcat-4.0/release/v4

.1.12/bin/

and copy 'CATALINA_HOME/server/lib/catalina-ant.jar' to 'MAVEN_HOME/repository/tomcat/jars/catalina-ant-4.1.12.jar'.

To use it in a project, add something like this to your
project.properties: maven.tomcat.url = http://freedonia:8080/manager
maven.tomcat.username = flywheel maven.tomcat.password = swordfish (read
the tomcat manager how-to!!)

and type:
maven tomcat:deploy

Your webapp will be built and deployed onto the server. There are xdocs for everything if you want more details.

The plugin depends on a jar from TC 4.1.12, but some of the manager app functions will work fine on earlier tomcats - see your server docs for details.

CAVEAT: this is not an official plugin, so don't rely on this for production scripts unless you're happy that this copy is all you need.

-Baz

BTW: Is there a reason why there's no 'plugin' plugin? Seems like most of the plugin maven.xml's are the same?

Brian Ewins wrote:

I've written a tomcat plugin I'd like to donate, once I'm through
testing. It needs catalina-ant.jar (not on ibiblio as far as I can

see).

Its pretty small and straightforward, since its just a wrapper for the
tomcat ant tasks. Should I just attach it on jira, or...?

-Baz


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