Deploment Plans-Level-1

First step on Deployment plans for GeronimoV1.1

Introduction
Apache Geronimo v1.1 deployment Plans
Work out Deployment Plan with Samples
(I will include the completed samples here)
-Deploying and Undeploying Simple HelloWorld (war module,web.xml,geronimo-web.xml)
-Deploying and Undeploying HelloWorld J2EE Samples(JAR containing EJB ,ejb-jar.xml,openejb.xml)
-Deploying and Undeploying JCA sample with Geronimo

Discussion
Conclusion

Introduction

Every service,application or resource in Geronimo is configured with an xml deployment plan.Deployment plans are the Geronimo version of the J2EE deployment descriptors. They are still XML files based on XML schemas and containing the configuration details for a specific application module. Via the deployment plans you can not only deploy application modules but also other configurations such as a security realm etc..This is the First step on to geronimoV1.1 deployment plans which with cover very simple samples.Upcoming Next step of deployment plans will be ready for users soon, which will provides you on complex and advance samples.This first steps will help for beginners of apache geronimo V1.1 to play with it.

Apache Geronimo V1.1 Deployment Plans

The following table illustrates the deployment descriptors name and file location for both standard J2EE and Apache Geronimo specific.

File	Standard Deployment Descriptors in the J2EE specification	Apache Geronimo specific Deployment plan
Web Application Archive (WAR)	web.xml under the WEB-INF directory	geronimo-web.xml
Enterprise Web application archive (EAR)	application.xml	geronimo-application.xml
J2EE Connector resources archive (RAR)	ra.xml	geronimo-ra.xml
J2EE client application archive (JAR)	client.xml	geronimo-application-client.xml
JAR containing EJBs	ejb-jar.xml under the META-INF directory	openejb-jar.xml

Work Out Deployment Plans with Samples

Assumptions

It's assumed that you have installed the either tomcat or the jetty version of Geronimo V1.1 successfully and it is working. Please find the further details to get the software and install it.(need to direct the link to Installation Guide and the User Guide)

Deployment plan for WAR Module

Deploying and Undeploying Helloworld sample.

This section will cover to understand how the deployment plan works for each one of different application modules.
First let's have look at the simple "HelloWorld"example which creates a Web Application Archive (WAR) under the WEB-INF directory and has a geronimo-web.xml as the apache Geronimo specific deployment Plan.

Here are the steps to understand the deployment plan for the "HelloWorld" Example
1.Create a folder in called <app_home> in your working directory
2.Open up a new text file and save it as "HelloWorld.jsp" in side the app_home directory
3.Copy and past the following code for the "HelloWorld.jsp" in it.

HelloWorld.jsp

<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
    pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>HelloWorld!</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#707DB8">
     <h1>
        <font face="courier" color="white">
                 Hello world from GERONIMO V1.1!
         </font>
       </h1>
          <font face="courier" color="white"> ${datetime}</font>
</html>

4.Create a new folder called"WEB-INF" inside the app-home.

5.Open up new text file and save it as "geronimo-web.xml"(use simple letters)and this is the apache geronimo1.1deployment plan for this sample module.
6.Copy and paste the following xml code in that file and save it inside the <app_home\WEB-INF> directcory.

geronimo-web.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/j2ee/web-1.1">
  <dep:environment xmlns:dep="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/deployment-1.1">
    <dep:moduleId>
      <dep:groupId>geronimo</dep:groupId>
      <dep:artifactId>HelloWorld</dep:artifactId>
      <dep:version>1.1</dep:version>
      <dep:type>war</dep:type>
    </dep:moduleId>
  </dep:environment>

  <context-root>/hello</context-root>

</web-app>

7.Open up a another new text file save it in <app_home\WEB_INF> directory and name it as "web.xml"
8.Copy and Paste the following xml code in it and save.

web.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<web-app version="2.4"

   xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
   xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee
   http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd">

    <welcome-file-list>
         <welcome-file>HelloWorld.jsp</welcome-file>
    </welcome-file-list>

</web-app>

9.The next step is packaging the application.From a command line window change directory to <app_home> and run the following command to package the HelloWorld application into a single .war file.

jar -cvf HelloWorld.war *

This will create a HelloWorld.war file in the <app_home> directory. The next step is to deploy this application.

10.User can use the preferable deployment approach either command line or the Geronimo Web Console.Here it describes how to use the command line.

11.Change directory to <geronimo_home>/bin and run the following command:
java -jar deployer.jar --user system --password manager deploy <app_home>/HelloWorld.war

12.For the further instructions about deployment process please refer the Quick Start or Sample working.The sample application code can be downloaded here.
HelloWorld web Sample

Access Hello World web sample
http://localhost:8080/hello

Deploying JAR containing Simple EJB application

This section will cover GeronimoV1.1 deployment plan for the a simple helloworld ejb.
Here is the folder structure for the above simple application.Sample Application is available to download here
HelloWorld ejb Sample

HelloWorld
   |_ejbModule
   |          |_org.geronimo.ejbsample
   |          |                 |_HelloBean
   |          |                 |_HelloHome
   |          |                 |_HelloObject
   |          |
   |          |_org.geronimo.ejbsample.client
   |                                    |_HelloWorld
   |_META-INF
   |      |_ejb-jar.xml
   |      |_openejb-jar.xml
   |
   |_dist
   |_build
   |_build.xml

Here is the ejb-jar.xml for the above sample
ejb-jar.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE ejb-jar PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Enterprise JavaBeans 2.0//EN" "http://java.sun.com/dtd/ejb-jar_2_0.dtd">
<ejb-jar>
  <enterprise-beans>
    <session>
      <ejb-name>HelloBean</ejb-name>
      <home>org.geronimo.ejbsample.HelloHome</home>
      <remote>org.geronimo.ejbsample.HelloObject</remote>
      <ejb-class>org.geronimo.ejbsample.HelloBean</ejb-class>
      <session-type>Stateless</session-type>
      <transaction-type>Container</transaction-type>
    </session>
  </enterprise-beans>
  <assembly-descriptor>
    <container-transaction>
      <method>
        <ejb-name>HelloBean</ejb-name>
        <method-name>*</method-name>
      </method>
      <trans-attribute>Required</trans-attribute>
    </container-transaction>
  </assembly-descriptor>
</ejb-jar>

GeronimoV1.1 deployment plan for the above sample
openejb.jar

<openejb-jar xmlns="http://www.openejb.org/xml/ns/openejb-jar-2.1">
  <dep:environment xmlns:dep="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/deployment-1.1">
    <dep:moduleId>
      <dep:groupId>org.geronimo.</dep:groupId>
      <dep:artifactId>ejbsample</dep:artifactId>
      <dep:version>1.0</dep:version>
      <dep:type>car</dep:type>
    </dep:moduleId>
    <dep:dependencies/>
    <dep:hidden-classes/>
    <dep:non-overridable-classes/>
  </dep:environment>
  <enterprise-beans>
    <session>
      <ejb-name>HelloBean</ejb-name>
      <jndi-name>org.geronimo.ejbsample.HomeBean</jndi-name>
    </session>
  </enterprise-beans>
</openejb-jar>

Steps to deploy the sample

The user either can build the sample from the begining using the build.xml by editing the required geronimo_home as your relevant or directly get the helloworld-ejbs.jar from the "dist" directory for the direct deployment.Geronimo wen console can be used for the direct deployment,what all you have to do is browse to the hellowolrd-ejbs.jar file and click the button install.Otherwise use the following command line option to deploy the application.

Runnig the Client to test the HelloWorld ejb service

org.geronimo.ejbsample.client.HelloWorld.java is the client code for the above application.Set the necessary class path to run client in your environment.

< <app-home>/org/geronimo/ejbsampleclient> >java HelloWorld

You will see the "Hello world" print on your command line

  HelloWorld/org/geronimo/ejbsampleclient>
  Hello World!

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Deploying the EAR Application On Geronimo V1.1

This sample application gives you an overview of basic steps to deploy an ear application in geronimo V1.1
Though this is a simple application it helps new users to understand the basics of GeronimoV1.1 specific deployment plan for an EAR and move on to work with complex applications. In this sample ,Servelts are used in the back end while JSP is used in the front end.
Following graft is shown the folder structure of it.

     HelloWorldEar
                |_src
                |    |_HelloWorld.java
                |_web
                |    |_index.jsp
                |_build
                |       |_src
                |      |    |_HelloWorld.class
                |      |_ear
                |      |  |_META_INF
                |      |  |     |_application.xml
                |      |  |     |_geronimo-application.xml
                |      |  |_helloworld.war
                |      |
                |      |_war
                |      |     |_WEB-INF
                |      |     |      |_classes
                |      |     |      |_web.xml
                |      |     |      |_geronimo-web.xml
                |      |     |_index.jsp
                |      |          
                |      |_deplomentdescriptors
                |                     |_application.xml
                |                     |_geronimo-application.xml
                |                     |_web.xml
                |                     |_geronimo-web.xml
                |_build.xml
                |_helloworld.ear

HelloWorldEar application contents can be described as follows

src-HelloWorld servlet
web-JSP
build -where all the build out puts go and it contents sub folders src ,war,ear,deploymentdescriptors.
build.xml-The build file is also attached in the source bundle and if somebody want to run this build file it's required to change the class paths and Geronimo Home as relevant to your environment.
helloworld.ear - This is the final distribution for the application and it will create at the root folder as shown.
Source code can be downloaded from here

HelloWorldEar EAR Sample

Here is the application.xml for the above application
application.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<application>
<display-name>HelloWorldEar</display-name>
<module>
<web>
<web-uri>helloworld.war</web-uri>
<context-root>/hello</context-root>
</web>
</module>
</application>

Here is the Geronimo specific deployment plan geronimo-application.xml

geronimo-application.xml

<application application-name="HelloWorldEar" xmlns="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/j2ee/application-1.1" xmlns:sec="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/security-1.1" xmlns:sys="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/deployment-1.1">
  <sys:environment>
    <sys:moduleId>
      <sys:groupId>default</sys:groupId>
      <sys:artifactId>HelloWorldEar_HelloWorldEar</sys:artifactId>
      <sys:version>1-default</sys:version>
      <sys:type>car</sys:type>
    </sys:moduleId>
    <sys:dependencies/>
    <sys:hidden-classes/>
    <sys:non-overridable-classes/>
  </sys:environment>
</application>

Here is the web.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/j2ee/web-1.1">
  <dep:environment xmlns:dep="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/deployment-1.1">
    <dep:moduleId>
      <dep:groupId>geronimo</dep:groupId>
      <dep:artifactId>HelloWorldEar</dep:artifactId>
      <dep:version>1.1</dep:version>
      <dep:type>war</dep:type>
    </dep:moduleId>
  </dep:environment>

  <context-root>/hello</context-root>

</web-app>

Here is the geronimo-web.xml for the above war module.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/j2ee/web-1.1">
  <dep:environment xmlns:dep="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/deployment-1.1">
    <dep:moduleId>
      <dep:groupId>geronimo</dep:groupId>
      <dep:artifactId>HelloWorldEar</dep:artifactId>
      <dep:version>1.1</dep:version>
      <dep:type>war</dep:type>
    </dep:moduleId>
  </dep:environment>

  <context-root>/hello</context-root>

</web-app>

The direct deployment can be done using the GeronimoV1.1 web console or else application can be deployed using the following command.

java -jar <geronimo-home>/bin/deployer.jar deploy <app-home>helloworld.ear

Deploying a J2EE Connector resources archive (RAR) with GeronimoV1.1

In this section will describe the deployment plan for RAR application with GeronimoV1.1.The base of this sample has been barrowed and modified from User Guide.(Migration to Apache Geronimo-JBoss to geronimo JCA migration.html)This sample contains a File Retriever JCA sample application it consists of two modules that, for this sample purposes, are deployed separately and not as a single EAR archive.
The first module is a simple file system resource adapter that conforms to the JCA architecture without any server-specific extensions. The adapter provides only two functions:

Lists name of files and directories located in a specific repository being a directory in the underlying file system.
Retrieves the content of one of the files.

The second module is a Web application that uses the adapter and provides online access to the files.

The user views a list of directories and files located in the repository and clicks a file to download it from the server. By default the resource adapter is configured so that the root directory of an application server is used as the repository.

Folder structure for the JCA sample is shown below.

jca
   |_src
   |_meta   
   |   |_geronimo
   |           |_geronimo-ra.xml
   |           |_ra.xml
   |           |_jca-plan.xml
   |_web
   |  |_WEB_INF
   |        |_geronimo-web.xml
   |        |_web.xml
   |_jca.rar
   |_jca.war

J2EE RAR Deployment Plan

ra.xml

<connector xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee                             http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/connector_1_5.xsd" version="1.5" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
  <display-name>FileRetriever</display-name>
  <vendor-name>IBM</vendor-name>
  <eis-type>File system</eis-type>
  <resourceadapter-version>1.0</resourceadapter-version>
  <resourceadapter>
    <outbound-resourceadapter>
      <connection-definition>
        <managedconnectionfactory-class>com.ibm.j2g.jca.connector.impl.FileRetrieverManagedConnectionFactory</managedconnectionfactory-class>
        <config-property>
          <description>Path to the directory being the file repository</description>
          <config-property-name>RepositoryPath</config-property-name>
          <config-property-type>java.lang.String</config-property-type>
        </config-property>
        <connectionfactory-interface>com.ibm.j2g.jca.connector.FileRetrieverConnectionFactory</connectionfactory-interface>
        <connectionfactory-impl-class>com.ibm.j2g.jca.connector.impl.FileRetrieverConnectionFactoryImpl</connectionfactory-impl-class>
        <connection-interface>com.ibm.j2g.jca.connector.FileRetrieverConnection</connection-interface>
        <connection-impl-class>com.ibm.j2g.jca.connector.impl.FileRetrieverConnectionImpl</connection-impl-class>
      </connection-definition>
      <transaction-support>NoTransaction</transaction-support>
      <reauthentication-support>false</reauthentication-support>
    </outbound-resourceadapter>
  </resourceadapter>
</connector>

J2EE RAR GeronimoV1.1 deployment plan

geronimo-ra.xml


<connector version="1.5" xmlns="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/j2ee/connector-1.1">
  <dep:environment xmlns:dep="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/deployment-1.1">
    <dep:moduleId>
      <dep:groupId>com</dep:groupId>
      <dep:artifactId>ibm</dep:artifactId>
      <dep:version>j2g</dep:version>
      <dep:type>jca.rar</dep:type>
    </dep:moduleId>
    <dep:dependencies/>
    <dep:hidden-classes/>
    <dep:non-overridable-classes/>
  </dep:environment>
  <resourceadapter>
    <outbound-resourceadapter>
      <connection-definition>
        <connectionfactory-interface>com.ibm.j2g.jca.connector.FileRetrieverConnectionFactory</connectionfactory-interface>
        <connectiondefinition-instance>
          <name>FileRetriever</name>
          <!--The following path refers to the Geronimo home directory-->
          <config-property-setting name="RepositoryPath">..</config-property-setting>
          <connectionmanager>
            <no-transaction/>
            <no-pool/>
          </connectionmanager>
        </connectiondefinition-instance>
      </connection-definition>
    </outbound-resourceadapter>
  </resourceadapter>
</connector>

To deploy the adapter on Geronimo you also need a deployment plan specific to this server. Such a plan can be either named geronimo-ra.xml and be placed into the META-INF folder of the corresponding RAR archive, or can have any name and stay outside the archive. In the latter case, the path to the plan should be specified during the deployment of the resource adapter.
The deployment plan used by the sample application contains the repository path configuration parameter that may be updated before the deployment. Because of this, the jca-plan.xml file is not included in the RAR archive but it is placed into the <jca_home>/meta/geronimo directory instead. The content of this file is listed in the following example.

<!--This is Geronimo-specific descriptor-->
<connector version="1.5" xmlns="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/j2ee/connector-1.1">
  <dep:environment xmlns:dep="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/deployment-1.1">
    <dep:moduleId>
      <dep:groupId>com</dep:groupId>
      <dep:artifactId>ibm</dep:artifactId>
      <dep:version>j2g</dep:version>
      <dep:type>jca.rar</dep:type>
    </dep:moduleId>
    <dep:dependencies>
      <dep:dependency>
        <dep:groupId>geronimo</dep:groupId>
        <dep:artifactId>geronimo-connector</dep:artifactId>
       <!-- <dep:type>car</dep:type>-->
      </dep:dependency>
    </dep:dependencies>
    <dep:hidden-classes/>
    <dep:non-overridable-classes/>
  </dep:environment>
  <resourceadapter>
    <outbound-resourceadapter>
      <connection-definition>
        <connectionfactory-interface>com.ibm.j2g.jca.connector.FileRetrieverConnectionFactory</connectionfactory-interface>
        <connectiondefinition-instance>
          <name>FileRetriever</name>
          <config-property-setting name="RepositoryPath">..</config-property-setting>
          <connectionmanager>
            <no-transaction/>
            <no-pool/>
          </connectionmanager>
        </connectiondefinition-instance>
      </connection-definition>
    </outbound-resourceadapter>
  </resourceadapter>
</connector>

In this deployment plan the attribute <dep:moduleId> </dep:moduleId>segment specifies the unique name com/ibm/j2g/jca.rar used to identify the RAR module in Geronimo and that this module is deployed on the server as a separate component.
The descriptor also:
Defines the FileRetriever name which looks up for the resource adapter factory.
Specifies that neither transactions nor connection pool are supported.
Provides value of the repository path configuration parameter.

Building the sample Application.

In order to build the modules of the File Retriever JCA application you need to update the build.properties file and property such as geronimo-home matchs your environment.

Next step is the deploying the rar application with Geronimo.
As stated in the previous examples user will have two choices of deploying an application with geronimo either Geronimo web console or command line.Here the command line option is described following.
From a command line, change directory to <jca_home> and type the following commands:
Deploying jca-plan.xml and rar

java -jar <geronimo_home>/bin/deployer.jar --user system --password manager deploy meta/geronimo/jca-plan.xml jca.rar

java -jar <geronimo_home>/bin/deployer.jar --user system --password manager deploy jca.war

Insert the out put

Once the JCA application is deployed, open a Web browser and access the following URL:
http://localhost:8080/jca

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