David Thanks for the clarification, I will try to follow the hints, Viola and you gave me.
Regards Carlos djencks wrote: > > > On Jun 19, 2009, at 6:04 PM, caof2005 wrote: > >> >> Hello folks, >> >> With a newbe questions/request: >> >> Can anybody refer me to any document/link which indicate me which >> are the >> steps to do a manual deployment without using the deployment tool >> (deploy ) >> ? >> >> I'm using Geronimo 2.1.3 with Tomcat 6 >> >> I tried to follow the oldie/classic example of building a dynamic >> project by >> hand (no IDE's, nor deploy tool at all) just using the java, javac >> and jar >> command line tools. > > Why? I can't begin to enumerate all the mistakes you can make setting > up even a simple javaee project with these tools. At least use maven, > it will make it much more plausible that you will end up with a > correct artifact structure. > > Since you seem to be interested in using spec-compliant tools you > should use our jsr-88 deployer. This is the only spec-compliant way > to deploy an ee application to an ee server. The command line > interface of our deployer is not specified by the spec but the > communication between the tool and the server is, so you can use > another jsr-88 deployer if you can find one. > >> >> So I tried to manually define the basic directory deployment >> structure shown >> in 4.X, 5.X versions of Tomcat: >> >> webapps >> --MyApp_Directory >> ---WEB-INF >> ----web.xml >> ----geronimo-web.xml >> ----lib >> ----classes >> ----com >> ----example >> -------web >> ----------classA.class >> -------model >> ----------classB.class >> >> But I couldn't find any "tomcat" directory in Geronimo installation >> directory which I can define inside that structure. > > Tomcat's deployment mechanism is proprietary and not related to any ee > specs. We don't use it. > >> >> So the question is .... am I assuming correctly that I can manually >> define >> the deployment structure as I can do it in older versions of Tomcat? > no. When an app is deployed in geronimo it constructs a geronimo > plugin which in particular includes a file of serialized component > configuration. You can't construct one of these without deploying the > app in geronimo. > >> Or do I have to use the deployment tool (deploy) in order to >> manually deploy >> any application ? >> > > There's a hot deploy directory but I really recommend against using > it. It's really not tooling friendly: for example there's no way to > tell if deployment has started, finished, or failed without using > something like the deploy tool with more complicated instructions that > deploying the app would use. > > You can use the gshell based deploy commands, deploy from maven, the > command line deployer, the console. > > My favorite is to build a geronimo plugin using maven and the car- > maven-plugin and assemble a server around your application that has > exactly the functionality needed for the app. > > I hope this relates to your questions.... > > thanks > david jencks > > >> Any guidance would be very appreciated. >> Regards >> Carlos >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://www.nabble.com/What-are-the-specifics-steps-for-manual-deployment---tp24120872s134p24120872.html >> Sent from the Apache Geronimo - Users mailing list archive at >> Nabble.com. >> > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/What-are-the-specifics-steps-for-manual-deployment---tp24120872s134p24137265.html Sent from the Apache Geronimo - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
