>From reading the posts on this forum, it seems everyone uses Maven. So, I'm >probably the oddball on this subject, but I don't use it. Instead, I used >MyEclipse by Genuitec. If you use their IDE, you don't need to write these >build scripts. It might take you a bit to get used to their IDE, but, in the >long run, I think you'll find it faster to build projects. You simply right >click the project to select MyEclipse --> Add Web Project Capabilities, and it >adds all the folders and web.xml stuff you need in your project. When you're >ready to deploy it to a server, you just click the "Project Deployment" button >and it asks you where you want to deploy it and then it builds your war file >and drops it in the webapps folder of Tomcat or wheverever you specified.
Anyway, that's one option. For $50 a year subscription to it, it has a ton of time-saving tools built into it. Check it out. Ron Grimes -----Original Message----- From: Raphael F. [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 8:26 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Easy way for deploying CXF project into webserver with WAR file Hello all, I'd like to launch my CXF based application into a web server (Tomcat for instance, or any other if needed) just by moving a WAR file into webapps directory and deploying with server's manager, so that a user of my app can deploy it without Maven or else dev tool. I have generated a WAR file from my application which I usually deploy with maven command (after having used "mvn install" command) : mvn -Pserver The "mvn war:war" command has generated a WAR file with all classes and libraries used, but it contains a /WEB-INF/web.xml file with following : <!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN" "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd"; > <web-app> <display-name>Archetype Created Web Application</display-name> </web-app> A /META-INF/MANIFEST.MF file : Manifest-Version: 1.0 Created-By: Apache Maven Built-By: rflores Build-Jdk: 1.6.0_0 A /META-INF/application.xml file : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE application PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD J2EE Application 1.3//EN" "http://java.sun.com/dtd/application_1_3.dtd";> <application> <display-name>ProticPortWeb</display-name> </application> etc. I never have used a WAR file in order to deploy an application on a web server so I'm not really well-skilled with this technology, but I expect it should provoke some problems with the used of Jetty light server (actually implemented in a Server.java class like the example "restul_http_binding" shows). So I have few questions : - If I want to use a HTTP server to easily deploy my app by moving the WAR in /webapps's Tomcat like directory, it seems that I have to configure the WAR with one ore several XML files (what file, MANIFEST.MF ? Application.xml ? web.xml ? Each one ?) instead of using Server.java class like example above (class which I would remove I think ?), so that the HTTP server knows the services to deploy, am I true ? - If I'm wrong, does Jetty server can be launched as this by the other web server without removing the Server.java class ? - A Maven oriented question (I should post it on Maven's user list I think) : Maven WAR plugin can generate a WAR file from maven project, but deploying files (the ones I have shown above) do not contain information about deployment for the server, does Maven can generate it from adding information into pom.xml ? Does one of you knows an easy way to deploy my app without Maven commands ? Thanks. -- Raphaël F.
