I am using IntelliJ (14.0.3) and Wildfly (8).
When I recompile my Java classes, hot swapping is easy and everything works just fine. However, my HTML, JS and CSS files will not hot swap for me. I am sure it is just a configuration issue and was hoping for some help.
My HTML data is in:
<root>/<war_module>/src/main/webapp
My run/debug is setup for:
Before launch: Make, Build Artifacts
Make
Build 'mymodule:war' artifact
I had the exact same problem, this is how it worked for me:
After configuring your JBoss server (Wildfly), setup an artifact of type exploded, in my case I selected Web Application: Exploded, and then in the Output directory add .war to the end of the name.
In case you need a .ear, simply select JavaEE Application: exploded instead, but anyways always remember to add manually the extension.
After setting this artifact to work with your Application Server, in the edit configurations of your Wildfly server select the option Update resources in the list of options in the section On frame deactivation.
So every time you modify and save static content, it will update these changes as soon as you focus something else outside the IDE, like the browser.
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My setup is
IDE: IntelliJ
Application: JEE6 with an EAR and a WAR module
Build: Maven
Hot-Code-Replacement: JRebel
App-Server: Glassfish 3.1
I configured the application in IntelliJ in a way that the ear gets deployed. The ear "target" folder looks like this
target/classes/
target/appEar/appWeb-version-Snapshot.war/
target/appEar/lib/
target/appEar/META-INF
In the default configuration JRebel listens for changes in the classes/ folder.
When I change something in the web module, and build this, the classes are only updated in appWeb/target/classes/ but not in appEar/target/appEar/appWeb-version-Snapshot.war/.
If I want to update those classes I have to select "Build Artifacts" in IntelliJ after building the project.
To sum up, I have to do these steps for a hot code replacement:
(once) Configure JRebel correctly.
Make project
Build Artifacts
This whole procedure appears to be too complicated to me. Does anyone have a clue how to setup IntelliJ/Maven/Glassfish/JEE/JRebel correctly? I have not found an example containing all my tools. I'd like to have only one action for the code replacement, not two.
There's "build on make" checkbox in your project artifact settings, that will always recreate your artifact on compiling, if that's what you are looking for. However JRebel should remap where your application is reading class files and resources based on rebel.xml, so you probably should just rewrite rebel.xml to look for classes where they are compiled to, not where they end up after building the artifact.
Why do you need to Build Artifacts every time?
Your war should contain the rebel.xml that maps to the classes in /target/classes folder.
When you make changes to said classes, your server then knows to load the changes from those classes.
So you only need to build your project in order to see the changes assuming your rebel.xml classpath points to /target/classes.
Just switched to the Intellij Ultimate 14.1.4 IDE. Tried to build a simple Spring Boot helloworld endpoint but ran into several problems.
I first created a new Spring initializer project with no issues. I went through the various windows setting up the project with no issues. When the project was created it did not generate a Spring Boot main application class, which is no big deal; it's just an irritation for a newbie.
I selected src > file > new and tried to select a Java class but found that there was none in the drop down box. Most of the drop downs were JavaScript, CSS, and JSON files. I guess I do not have the correct default for Spring Boot. Anybody know how to set this up?
The crux of the issue is that you were not running that command in the context of a source or test folder. If you attempt to do any autogenerate commands in a non-source folder, you won't get the full set of things that can be generated.
The simple fix is to be sure that you're in the right folder - likely src/main/java.
If the folder isn't marked blue, then right-click on it, and select Mark Directory As > Sources Root.
This is what it appears when you don't have the folder marked as source:
...and this is what it looks like when you do:
I have a Spring application that is being deployed to JBoss 4.2. I can manually edit the generated WAR file and alter the jboss-web.xml file to set the context-root value and that works perfectly well. I would like to be able to do the samething via netbeans (6.9.1), but I have been unable to locate where to make the adjustment. I've tried tweaking the project's properties and setting the Context Path value. When I Run the application that value is reset to the Project's name. I've located the jboss-web.xml file in the project and changed it there, also reset upon run. So it appears that Netbeans is deciding that the value need to be set but I can't locate where. If it's of any use, the project also uses Maven2, but all the controls I can find for impacting context-root are geared towards EAR files instead of WAR.
Has anyone been able to do this or am I just in a world of making the change post build?
I had a similar problem once where netbeans was sometimes removing the context-root element from the glassfish-web.xml configuration. I have not been able to track it down exactly but you could try to remove the file nb-configuration.xml in the project root folder and see if that helps.
I finally have my application in IntelliJ and deploying to JBoss. I'd like to get hot deploy working but it looks like I need to understand how IntelliJ and JBoss interact.
When I build my project in IntelliJ and then start JBoss, the ear file does not appear in the deploy directory so I assume that there is some magic that IntelliJ does so that JBoss reads from a different folder. What is happening during this step?
Thanks :)
I know this is an old and apparently answered question, but unfortunately the links provided in the accepted answer didn't give me the simple details I was looking for. For anyone also trying to understand how IntelliJ IDEA deploys your exploded war to JBoss without copying files to the deployments folder, here's what I've found while deploying locally from IDEA 14 (EAP) to JBoss 7.1.1.Final:
After you've created an "exploded war" artifact for your project (or it has automatically been created for you), IDEA will build your provided sources and place the output in the directory set in the artifact options (you can change this setting to place the output inside the deployments folder inside your jboss installation).
IDEA will update your JBoss configuration file (/standalone/configuration/standalone.xml) and add a "deployment" node inside the deployments section. This entry simply defines a name, a runtime name and the exploded war root folder for your project, which will point to the output directory of your artifact set in IDEA.
When JBoss is started (either manually or from your run/debug configuration in IDEA), it will automatically deploy your artifact. Be warned that if your files are in the output directory of your project and you clean it, JBoss will still try to find the directory, thus encountering errors in your next attempt to start it: org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitProcessingException: Failed to mount deployment content, Failed to process phase STRUCTURE of deployment and java.io.FileNotFoundException to name a few.
Please refer to the documentation.
Basically, you need an exploded Artifact configuration with the directory name ending with .ear.
Build | Make performs hot deployment as well as Update action (which is configurable and can update only resources, resources and classes, optionally redeploy or restart the server).
Instead of copying your application to JBoss, IDEA runs it with appropriate parameters so that it uses Artifact directory instead. Configuration is very flexible and you can just change the artifact directory location to reside under JBoss directory.
I installed Tomcat using the Windows installer ages ago and it runs fine as a service on my development laptop. Now I'm mavenising my project and would like to use Cargo (or something similar) to deploy updated WARs onto the local Tomcat.
I can't find any fully worked examples of a POM file containing the right XML to do this and am struggling with the partial examples on the Cargo site.
Does anyone have a POM they can post or know of an example in the wild they can link to?
FWIW the error I get is this - though I've tried many different combinations of parameters:
Cannot create configuration. There's
no registered configuration for the
parameters (container [id =
[tomcat6x], type = [local]],
configuration type [existing]).
Actually there are no valid types
registered for this configuration.
Maybe you've made a mistake spelling
it?
I'm not even sure I know exactly what the error means by a "type" in the first place!
Update: I eventually found the m2eclipse WTP integration plugin, which frankly rocks!
Is there a reason to use just cargo?
You can try the maven tomcat plugin in order to deploy your wars to tomcat. See the instructions about configuration and deployment.