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The Geronimo deployment plan for an enterprise application is an XML document. It is defined by the geronimo-application-1.1.xsd schema, which can be found in the schema/ subdirectory of the main Geronimo installation directory. The deployment plan for an enterprise application can be included in the application EAR, in which case it should be named META-INF/geronimo-application.xml or saved as a separate file and provided to the deploy tool when the application is deployed
The deployment plan should always use the Geronimo Application namespace. Additionally, it has a required attribute to
identify its configuration name, and an optional attribute to select a parent configuration. A typical enterprise application deployment plan looks like this:
1. Creating an Enterprise Application EAR
1.1. application.xml Format
2.The Enterprise Application Geronimo Deployment Plan Over view
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3.Work out Geronimo Deployment plan
4. Structure of the Deployment Plan
4.1. Customizing the Application Class Path
4.2. Configuring Application Modules
4.3. Application-Wide Security Mapping
4.4. Adding Application-Scoped Services
Creating an Enterprise Application EAR
application.xml Format
The Typical Enterprise Application Geronimo Deployment Plan Overview
There is a specific internal structure for the Enterprise Application deployment plan for Geronimo and follow a specific structure and order of elements.
The deployment plan should always use the Geronimo Application namespace. Additionally, it has a required attribute to identify its configuration name, and an optional attribute to select a parent configuration. A typical Geronimo enterprise application deployment plan can be implemented as follows.
META-INF/geronimo-application.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <application xmlns="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/j2ee/application-1.1" xmlns:sys="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/deployment-1.1" xmlns:security="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/security-1.1" inverseClassloading="false"> ... </application>
The attributes are defined below
xmlns The main namespace for the deployment plan, which should always be http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/j2ee/application-1.1
xmlns:sys A secondary namespace, used to identify the common elements for third-party libraries and custom services. If present, this should always be set to http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/deployment-1.1
xmlns:security A secondary namespace, used to identify the common elements for security role settings. If present, this should always be set to http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/security-1.1
Class Path Settings for Enterprise Application Deployment Plan
import Refers to another configuration deployed in the server. That configuration will be added as a parent of this one (a configuration may have more than one parent). The main effect is that the class loader for the application will add the class loader for that configuration as a parent. Additionally, the parent configuration will be started before the application is started.
dependency Adds a third-party library to the class path for the application. Any common libraries used in this manner should be located in a subdirectory of the repository/ directory of the main Geronimo installation.
hidden-classes Lists packages or classes that may be in a parent class loader, but should not be exposed from there to the application. This is typically used when the application wants to use a different version of a library that one of its parent configurations (or Geronimo itself) uses. For example, Geronimo 1.0 uses Log4J 1.2.8. If the application wanted to use a newer version, it could include the newer version and then add org.apache.log4j to the list of hidden-classes so that the Log4J classes could not be loaded from a parent class loader.
non-overridable-classes Lists packages or classes that the application should always load from a parent class loader, and never load from its own class path.
filter Used to list classes or packages. The format is a comma-separated list of packages or fully-qualified class names (for example: javax.servlet,javax.ejb).
Specifying Imports and Dependencies in Class Path setting.
moduleId A unique name identifying this module. This name can be passed on the server command line to activate this application when the server starts.
groupId Identifies the parent configuration for this application (the value specified here should match the configId for that module or application). This can be used to make the application depend on another module such as a standalone EJB JAR or J2EE Connector or another entire application (or it should otherwise be omitted or set to the usual parent for J2EE modules, geronimo/j2ee-server/1.0/car).
application-name In the standard J2EE Management interface (JSR-77), an application will normally be identified by its configId. You can use this optional attribute to specify a different name for the application to use to identify itself and its children in the management interface. (This will be applied to all GBeans within the configuration, but the configuration GBean itself will still use the configId.) One way to use this is to deploy several database pool or JMS resource adapters in an EAR, but set the application-name to null to make all the resource adapters appear to be deployed at the top level of the server, making it easier to reference them from other applications.
inverseClassloading If it's set to true, the class loader for this application tries to load a class before checking whether the class is available from its parent class loader. If omitted or set to false, the normal (check parent first) class loader delegation behavior is used .
Configuring Application Modules
The J2EE deployment descriptor (META-INF/application.xml) lists the modules in the application and gives some basic options for each, including:
- A context root for web application modules
- The ability to store the J2EE deployment descriptors for each module in the EAR (instead of packaged within each module)
The Geronimo deployment plan provides two different options for overriding the usual packaging of the module-level Geronimo deployment plans within the modules:
- The deployment plan for a module can be stored in the EAR
- The deployment plan for a module can be embedded in the deployment plan for the application
Work out Geronimo Deployment plan
This section will be discussed the details of how Geronimo deployment plan for EAR has implemented for different type of applications accordingly.The Sample Application section of the Geronimo user guide has been heavily used to discusses the deployment plan in depth.
HelloWord EAR application
The article deployment plan level-1 gives an primary understand to the user in basics of Geronimo v1.1 specific deployment plan for an EAR and go head to work with complex applications.Further details about application can be find the original location as at http://cwiki.apache.org/GMOxDOC11/deployment-plans-level-1.html.Therefore here are deployment plans used in this sample application.
Geronimo requires that every EAR file has a standard META-INF/application.xml deployment descriptor. This may be configured for J2EE 1.2, J2EE 1.3, or J2EE 1.4, and should follow the appropriate XML format and following 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>
This deployment plan define the war module in <web><web-uri>helloworld.war<web-uri> and the root context of it.The geronimo-application.xml is the geronimo specific plan for above application.
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>
Deployment plan for geronimo-application.xml and openejb-jar.xml
The following sample is an Email address book which covers how to deploy the J2EE Applications on computer running Apache Geronimo v1.1.AddressBook samples has used JSP,Struts EJB and mysql as the data base.Here, it is assumed that you have the basic knowledge and experience of playing with EBJ,JSP and servlets with other application servers.
AddresBook samples use JSP primarily for presentation logic and the HTML code.Servlets form the controller layer of a typical Model-View-Controller(MVC)architecture serve as an interface between the presentation and the model layers.
The three tire architecture and layers are shown in the picture.
Following diagram shows how the code is organized in the application
AddressBook
|_org.apache.geronimo.sample.addressbook.ejb
| |_AddressBookEntryBean.java
| |_AddressBookSessionBean.java
|_org.apache.geronimo.sample.addressbook.struts
| |_AddressBookEntryForm.java
| |_CreateEntry.java
| |_EditEntry.java
| |_ListAddress.java
| |_SaveEntry.java
|_org.apache.geronimo.sample.addressbook.pages
| |_EditAddressBook.jsp
| |_footer.jsp
| |_ListAddressBookPage.jsp
| |_navigation.jsp
| |_site-template.jsp
|
|_resource
|_ear
| |_META_INF
| | |_application.xml
| | |_geronimo-application.xml
| |_mysql-plan.xml
| |_tranql-connector-1.0-SNAPSHOT.rar
|
|_ejb
| |_META_INF
| |_openejb-jar.xml
|_merge
| |_README.txt
| |_servlets.xml
| |_servlets-mappings.xml
| |_struts-controller.xml
| |_strust-data-sources.xml
| |_struts-forms.xml
| |_struts-plugins.xml
| |_taglibs.xml
|
|_webapp
|_images
|_pages
|_style
|
|_WEB_INF
| |_classes
| | |_resources
| | |_application.properties
| |_conf
| | |_struts-config.xml
| | |_validation.xml
| |
| |_tld
| |_geronimo-jetty.xml
| |_tiles-defs.xml
| |_validator-rules.xml
|_index.jsp
JSP and Struts
The Struts action classes are in the AddressBook/src/org/apache/geronimo/sample/addressbook/struts directory. The JSPs are in the AddressBook/src/webapp/pages directory.
EJB
Apache Geronimo uses OpenEJB as the EJB container system. The example contains two EJBs:
- Container-managed entity EJB
- Stateless session EJB
Deploying an Application-Scoped Connection Pool
An Application scoped connection pool is visible only to the application that deployed it.To deploy an application-scoped connection pool,you need to follow these steps.
- Specify the connector module in the application deployment descriptor.
- Specify the connector deployment plan in the Geronimo-specfic application deployment descriptor.
- Package the application EAR.
- Specify the the Connector Module in the Application Deployment Descriptor
The Application deployment descriptor(AddressBook/resources/ear/META-INF/application.xml)should define the TranQL connector module,as shown here.
<application
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/application_1_4.xsd"
version="1.4">
<module>
<ejb>addressbook-ejb.jar</ejb>
</module>
<module>
<web>
<web-uri>addressbook.war</web-uri>
<context-root>/addressbook</context-root>
</web>
</module>
<module>
<connector>tranql-connector-1.1.rar</connector>
</module>
</application>
It's a must to package the connector RAR file along with the application EAR file.
Specify the Connector Deployment Plan in the Geronimo Application Deployment Descriptor
Specify the connector deployment plan file in the Geronimo application deployment Descriptor(AddressBook/resources/ear/ear/META-INF/geronimo-application.xml)as shown here.