Hi bonbosdude, thanks for your initial impressions of the Geronimo
server and
corresponding Eclipse Plugin. There are probably multiple methods
available to
you to easily accomplish what you're trying to do without have to
manually update
deployment descriptors (i.e., your question #2 below). In general
for
Java EE 2
artifacts in your Eclipse workspace you can create either "Project
References" or
"J2EE Module Dependencies" between other projects in your
workspace. So
for
example, if you have a Web project in your workspace that is
dependent
on a
utility Java project (i.e., POJO) in your workspace, you can
specify a
"Project
Reference" between the two (i.e., right-click on the corresponding
project,
select "properties", and then select "Project References"). In this
manner, when
the Web project gets deployed the dependent JAR file will get
imbedded
in the WAR
file. There are other alternatives if you have many deployable
artifacts
with the
same JAR dependency such that your deployment time becomes
prohibitive,
which
conceivably might be the case for your question #3 below. If that
is the
case,
you could consider the usage of Geronimo's and the GEP's sharedlib
support. One
alternative that might be applicable for the case of an EJB that is
dependent on
a POJO Jar (i.e., question #1 below) is to create a EAR
application,
include both
the EJB and the JAR, and then simply deploy the EAR.
Hopefully, I'm not being too vague. If you need more specifics
please
let me
know. Based on the names of your artifacts I would guess they are
proprietary so
I doubt you can share them with me, but we can probably create some
dummy
artifacts from the samples and tutorials to demonstrate these
various
techniques
if that would help you and your development team. Thanks.
bongosdude wrote:
I am new to Geronimo and I have to say that I am quite impressed
with
it. It
really beats my expectation for a new and young JEE server. IMHO,
geronimo
is as good as weblogic. I have followed steps by steps most of
geronimo
2.1.1 samples and successfully installed GEP. However, I have
problems
with
GEP deployment when I tried to extend the tutorials. Here are
what I
did
1. based on the stateless session tutorial, I added a new
stateless
session
bean which will interface with Paypal web services. This stateless
session
will send credit card information to settle a credit card charge
based
on
PayPal SDK.
2. I tested this API outside the geronimo environment and it works
3. When I tried to deploy this new EJB to geronimo through GEP,
the GEP
failed to deploy to my geronimo local server with the message
"No Class
Exception: com.paypal.sdk.exceptions.PayPalException"
4. I found out that GEP only bundle my EJB in car format and
deploy to
geronimo. It did not include any dependent JARs that I setup with
eclipse.
This is why geronimo cannot deploy the EJB since the dependent
paypal
SDK
jar is not deployed to geronimo repository.
5. I had to go to geronimo console and manually added dependent
JARs
files
My questionss are:
1. how and what can I do to setup GEP to deploy all my dependent
jars
with
my EJB without having to manually setup dependent jars through
console
2. Do I have to specify depend libraries in the openejb-jar.xml
like
below:
<dep:dependency>
<dep:groupId>paypal.paypal-sdk</dep:groupId>
<dep:artifactId>paypal-stubs</dep:artifactId>
<dep:version>4.3.1</dep:version>
<dep:type>jar</dep:type>
</dep:dependency>
(GEP does not deploy libs by looking at the above dependency)
3. How would GEP work with referenced or dependent project in
Eclipse?
For
example, I would like to write a common package that includes
base/common
java beans that would be used by web application and EJB tiers.
How
would
like GEP to deploy the ref. project with my EJB too. How can I
do this
with
GEP?
Can someone give me helps or hints on how I can achieve these
geronimo
tasks? This would help me to decide move my team development to
Geronimo. I
have tons of questions about geronimo, but these basic tasks would
solve
most of my current problems with geronimo deployment.
Thanks for any helps.
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B Amigo:super:
