JBoss Deployer

We have recently added a JBoss deployer that allows you drop JBI components and service-assemblies directly into your JBoss 4.0.2 deploy directory and have JBoss picks them up and and passes them to a ServiceMix JBI container running right inside the application server. You will see your JBI MBeans in the normal JMX console and be able to access your J2EE resources as you would with a standard JBoss deployable component.

Currently the deployer is available from CVS in tooling/jboss-deployer, the build process is completely managed by Maven, though you will first need to install a SAR plugin for Maven to allow it to build the SAR (Service Archive) for the JBoss deployer. This can be done by checking out tooling/maven-sar-plugin and running:

maven plugin:install

This will install the SAR plugin you can download the jboss-deployer code and run the following goal in Maven:

maven sar:install

You will then find a jboss-deployer-1.0-SNAPSHOT.sar in the target directory, simply take this and drop it in your JBoss deploy directory (currently only tested on JBos 4.0.2), and away you go!!! Want to see it in action? You should be able to drop the JBI RI Transformation Engine example straight into the deploy directory and watch it pick up. Suddenly you have JBI enabled your JBoss Server!

To make life a little easier you can download the JBoss Deployer for ServiceMix M2