imoGeronimo Integration Lisa

Introduction

Geronimo is the J2EE server project of the Apache Software Foundation. ServiceMix is being tightly integrated with Geronimo so that it takes advantage of it's deployment architecture and to leverage geronimo to implement J2EE JBI bindings.

This document is under development and will be completed when the underlying code is ready. In the meantime, the ServiceMix on Geronimo deployment shown here is of the servicemix-web.war file. The Tomcat web application server is integrated with Geronimo as part of the Geronimo distribution. Therefore, when the servicemix-web.war file is deployed on Geronimo, it is being handed off to Tomcat by Geronimo. Additionally, the war file uses lightweight components, which are those components defined in a servicemix.xml file. Ultimately, the ServiceMix deployment on Geronimo will use heavyweight components. Heavyweight components accept service unit deployments, such as PXE. If you are interested in this topic and how it progresses, please "watch" this page for future changes.

The organization of this document is:

Geronimo Integration

The following guide explains how to deploy ServiceMix 2.0.x on the Geronimo application server.

Pre-Installation Requirements

Java Developer Kit (JDK) 1.4.x or greater to run ServiceMix (to build ServiceMix, JDK 1.5.x or greater is required)
The JAVA_HOME environment variable must be set to the directory where the JDK is installed, e.g. c:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.xx.
Maven 1.0.2 or greater (required when installing source or developer releases).
Geronimo version 1.0-M5
ServiceMix 2.0.x

The following platform was used to produce this deployment guide:

Windows XP
Geronimo 1.0-M5
Java 5
ServiceMix 2.0.x

Deploying ServiceMix on Geronimo

Execute the following steps to deploy ServiceMix on Geronimo. NOTE: This procedure will work on Unix platforms, as well as the Windows platform, with the appropriate substitutions, such as using the backslash ( / ) instead of the forward slash ( \ ).

Geronimo must be downloaded and installed. For instructions please see the Geronimo web site. In the Geronimo release of geronimo-1.0-M5 or greater, Tomcat is integrated with Geronimo. By default, Tomcat uses port 8080. This information will be used later.
Download the ServiceMix source code. Please see the Getting Started guide for instructions.
Create the WAR file:
```
cd [servicemix_install_dir]\tooling\servicemix-web
maven war
```
where servicemix_install_dir is the directory in which ServiceMix was downloaded and installed. The war file can be found in [servicemix_install_dir]\tooling\servicemix-web\target\servicemix-web.war.

To deploy the ServiceMix WAR file on Geronimo, use the Geronimo deployer.jar tool found in the bin directory of the Geronimo base directory.
From a command shell:

cd [geronimo_install_dir]
java -jar bin/deployer.jar --user system --password manager deploy [servicemix-2.0.x_install_dir]\tooling\servicemix-web\target\servicemix-web.war

You will see output similar to this:

 Deployed servicemix-web @ http://Lisas:8080/servicemix-web

The output in the Geronimo console window should show ServiceMix starting. Output will be similar to the following. This WAR file was not developed for use on Geronimo, but for use on Tomcat stand-alone, therefore, it does not contain a geronimo-web.xml deployment plan. For using the servicemix-web.war file on Tomcat, please see Tomcat Integration.

...    
Geronimo Application Server started
13:13:17,062 WARN  [JettyModuleBuilder] Web application does not contain a WEB-INF/geronimo-web.xml deployment plan.  This may or may not
 a problem, depending on whether you have things like resource references that need to be resolved.  You can also give the deployer a sep
te deployment plan file on the command line.

If Geronimo is restarted the console log will show ServiceMix starting, as shown below. Note: Geronimo does not need to be restarted to deploy the WAR file.

Booting Geronimo Kernel (in Java 1.5.0_05)...
Starting Geronimo Application Server
[*****************] 100%  45s Startup complete
  Listening on Ports:
    1099 0.0.0.0 RMI Naming
    1527 0.0.0.0 Derby Connector
    4201 0.0.0.0 ActiveIO Connector EJB
    4242 0.0.0.0 Remote Login Listener
    8019 0.0.0.0 Tomcat Connector AJP
    8080 0.0.0.0 Jetty Connector HTTP
    8090 0.0.0.0 Tomcat Connector HTTP
    8443 0.0.0.0 Jetty Connector HTTPS
    8453 0.0.0.0 Tomcat Connector HTTPS
   61616 0.0.0.0 ActiveMQ Message Broker Connector
  Started Application Modules:
    EAR: org/apache/geronimo/Console/Jetty
    WAR: org/apache/geronimo/applications/Welcome/Jetty
    WAR: servicemix-web
  Web Applications:
    http://Lisas:8080/
    http://Lisas:8080/console
    http://Lisas:8080/console-standard
    http://Lisas:8080/servicemix-web
Geronimo Application Server started

NOTE: The console output is also logged in geronimo_install_dir\var\log\deployer.log.

Testing the ServiceMix Geronimo Deployment

To ensure that ServiceMix is running on Geronimo, do any of the following:

Use Geronimo's "list-modules" option on deployer.jar to see the servicemix-web application:

cd [geronimo_install_dir]
java -jar bin/deployer.jar --user system --password manager list-modules

Output will be similar to:

Found 33 modules
  + org/apache/geronimo/Tomcat
  + org/apache/geronimo/Jetty
  + org/apache/geronimo/RMINaming
  + org/apache/geronimo/ActiveMQServer
  + org/apache/geronimo/TomcatRuntimeDeployer
  + org/apache/geronimo/Server
  + org/apache/geronimo/Security
  + servicemix-web @ http://Lisas:8080/servicemix-web
  + org/apache/geronimo/SystemDatabase
  + org/apache/geronimo/applications/Welcome/Jetty @ http://Lisas:8080/
  + org/apache/geronimo/SystemJMS
...

ServiceMix's default port is 1099. From another window run netstat and search for port 1099.
From a Windows console, type:
```
       
netstat -an|find "1099"
```
OR

From a Unix command shell, type:
```
netstat -an|grep 1099
```
Run the ServiceMix JMX Console. To do this, enter the following URL in a web browser: http://localhost:8080/servicemix-web. Try using the JMX console. For example, perform the following steps. Note: this is optional.
1. Click on "geronimo".
2. Click on "Unknown".
3. Click on the "JMXServlet WebModule" to get monitoring information about the JMX Servlet itself:
An http binding example is supplied. To run the example program perform the following steps:
1. From a browser, enter the URL http://localhost:8080/servicemix-web/examples.
2. Enter a name or some text in the text box (shown above) and click the Submit button. You will see:

Undeploying ServiceMix on Geronimo

Execute the following steps to undeploy ServiceMix on Geronimo.

To undeploy the ServiceMix WAR file, use the Geronimo deployer.jar tool found in the bin directory of the Geronimo base directory.
From a command shell:
```
cd [geronimo_install_dir]
java -jar bin/deployer.jar --user system --password manager undeploy servicemix-web
```
The output in the Geronimo console window should show the ServiceMix WAR file being undeployed. Output will be similar to the following:
```
        Module servicemix-web stopped.

        Module servicemix-web unloaded.

        Module servicemix-web uninstalled.

    Undeployed servicemix-web
```

Deploying JBI Components

The JBI spec describes in detail how to create a valid JBI deployment unit. In essence, it is a jar file with a META-INF/jbi.xml with other resource jars inside it. Please see Deployment Units for more information.

Make sure that your geronimo server is running.

Run the geronimo deploy tool against your deployment unit (in this case jbcomponent.jar):

java -jar geronimo-1.0-SNAPSHOT/bin/deployer.jar --user system --password manager deploy jbcomponent.jar

That should deploy the component to geronimo. To check, just take a look at the geronimo logs for a message similar to:

11:44:24,865 INFO  [Configuration] Started configuration example-engine-1
11:44:24,869 INFO  [ServiceMixDeployment] Starting: /Users/chirino/sandbox/geronimo/modules/assembly/target/geronimo-1.0-SNAPSHOT/config-store/20/META-INF/jbi.xml
...
11:44:25,783 INFO  [DefaultListableBeanFactory] Creating shared instance of singleton bean 'jbi'

Status

A basic ServiceMix deployer has been integrated with Geronimo. You can now deploy JBI deployment units to a running Geronimo server using the geronimo deployment tool.
Please monitor the Jira issue SM-140 to get currrent information on the Geronimo deployer for ServiceMix.

TODOs

Servicemix geronimo deployer should be enhanced to take advantage of Geronimo's classloader architecture
Build and integrate JBI binding components with geronimo. (At least integrate a HTTP, WS, and JMS binding components)

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