Fredrik, thanks for the post. Actually, there are some docs about what a geronimo-plugin looks like(1) and how to create/install/update one.
Here are the URLs FYR. Please let us know if you have any comments. (1) http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/GMOxDOC22/Plugin+and+plugin+group (2) http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/GMOxDOC22/Administering+plugins Jeff C On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Fredrik Jonson <fred...@myrealbox.com>wrote: > David Jencks wrote: > > Fredrik Jonson wrote: > > > > > > I'm looking for a simple example geronimo plugin project. > > > > Building all of geronimo itself is the best way to see a lot of plugin > > projects. Most of them are "service" plugins but there are a lot of > > javaee applications in there too. > > That seems a bit daunting. I'll try it... some day... ;) > > On the bright side I have finally managed to build and deploy a simple > plugin! > The reason I failed last week was due to a combination of PEBCAK and maybe > a bit > of complexity and lack of documentation in the car-maven-plugin. What I did > was: > > 1. Tried to package a plugin with a broken plan.xml. I tried to copy the > activemq-broker > plugin from current trunk (2.2-SNAPSHOT) and that project configuration > is a bit > strange, lots of parent modules and their transitive dependencies made it > hard to > overview what parameters, configurations and files (history?) that > actually is required, > and what is just specific to that module. > > 2. PEBCAK. I tried to install the plugin using the "deploy" command instead > of > "install-plugin". Completely my own fault. > > Two major gothas for me was: > > 1. Not declaring the geronimoVersion property in the pom. > 2. Not declaring "<extensions>true</extensions>" on the plugin > configuration. > > If anyone else is interested, my very minimal geronimo-plugin example > project > is included below. The dependency org.example/provider is simply a jar > module > that contains the ExampleGBean implementation. > > |-- pom.xml > `-- src > `-- main > `-- plan > `-- plan.xml > > --- pom.xml --- > > <?xml version="1.0"?> > <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"; > xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; > xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 > http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd";> > <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> > <groupId>org.example</groupId> > <artifactId>plugin</artifactId> > <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version> > <packaging>car</packaging> > <properties> > <geronimoVersion>2.1.4</geronimoVersion> > </properties> > <dependencies> > <dependency> > <groupId>org.example</groupId> > <artifactId>provider</artifactId> > <version>${version}</version> > </dependency> > </dependencies> > <build> > <plugins> > <plugin> > <groupId>org.apache.geronimo.buildsupport</groupId> > <artifactId>car-maven-plugin</artifactId> > <version>2.1.4</version> > <extensions>true</extensions> > <configuration> > <useMavenDependencies> > <value>true</value> > <includeVersion>true</includeVersion> > </useMavenDependencies> > <category>JMS</category> > </configuration> > </plugin> > </plugins> > </build> > </project> > > --- src/main/plan/plan.xml --- > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <module xmlns="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/deployment-1.2";> > <gbean name="ExampleGBean" class="org.example.gbean.ExampleGBean"> > </gbean> > </module> > > -- > Fredrik Jonson > >
