I want to enable user customization at run time with Oracle ADF. With JDeveloper, if I deploy my application directly to the server, a window permits me to choose a repository previously registered on my Enterprise Manager, as depicted in following image:
In this way my application works great. Now I would to deploy to EAR file (in order to save a copy of my release) but I don't know how to target MDS repository. On the web I've found that maybe the adf-config.xml file has to be modify, but in which way?
have a look at this blog entry, which explains how to do it. Apparently this information needs to be provided upon EAR file deployment
http://andrejusb.blogspot.de/2011/05/target-mds-repository-for-adf.html
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I'm working on an IBM MobileFirst Platform 7.1 project where there are many name value pairs in the worklight.properties file.
Say for example,
HOST_NAME = www.google.com
I access these variables form the MobileFirst adapter.
var hostName = WL.Server.configuration["HOST_NAME"]
There will be cases where I'll have to change the HOST_NAME in the worklight.properties to a different value. But sometimes, even after the value is changed in the worklight.properties file, they are not getting updated in the adapter.
Every time when I change the values I do the following,
Clean the project
Restart the server
Deploy the adapter again
Nothing seemed to change the value.
I suspect, the MobileFirst server caches the values and reuses the old values without updating the new ones. I say this because, I tried deleting the values in the worklight.properties file, and even tried deleting the file itself. Still the adapter was using the old value.
I tried deleting the MobileFirstServerConfig Folder in my workspace. Even that didn't work.
It would be great if someone could help me clear the cache or find a work around to this issue. Thanks in advance.
I kind of followed the above method but initially it didn't work.
But later I tried to follow these steps in this exact order and it seemed to work.
Stop Worklight Server.
Remove your project from Mobile First Development Server.
Go to the "bin" directory and remove your project war.
Clean and Build the entire workspace.
Start the server
Deploy the adapters
Run your app.
The worklight.properties file is embedded into the project runtime WAR file. So, if you change anything in worklight.properties, you must rebuild the WAR file and redeploy it. Based on your description, it sounds like you're only building the adapter (and not the app). At minimum, I would suggest to remove the runtime WAR file from the project "bin" directory (just to ensure that it gets rebuilt) and build all app environments. That should build / redeploy the WAR file and restart the server, and then what you're doing should work.
Here are the steps to follow:
1. If worklight server is up and running, stop it or restart your system.
2. Clear bin folder.
3. Do Clean Project and Build for enviournment.
4. Open Mobile first Console(Start server)
5. Deploy All adapters
6. Run your app.
If wlq or wl error is comming we can give an alert message 'test' in our main file where we have all the javascript files.
When I install (upload) new .wlapp file in application's console, I would like to make backup of the existing application set up. I am not sure where unZIPed wlapp files located after they uploaded via console, so I don't know, which folder to backup.
Also, is .wlapp makes modification of database and filesystem backup is not enough in this case?
Or, rephrase question: what can I do to backup current wlapp before trying new wlapp install. So I can safely back out if anything went wrong?
The .wlapp is located in the following location inside of your workspace:
/"WORKSPACE_NAME"/"PROJECT_NAME"/bin
On a successful build of your project the .wlapp for your environments will be found in the above location. You will see environment specific .wlapps as well as one that includes all of the environments. If you wish to backup these files you can simply copy them to another location after a successful build. Also as a note if you update the version of application environments inside of your applicationDescriptor these wlapps should manage each specific version in the bin folder as well. For example:
FormBasedAuthApp-iphone-1.0.wlapp
FormBasedAuthApp-iphone-2.0.wlapp
Once the wlapp is deployed it is actually stored in the database and it is much harder to guarantee exporting this resource. Please look Idan's post here for suggestions on this topic:
IBM Worklight - How to retrieve an already-deployed .wlapp file?
The wlapp file once uploaded to Server becomes a part of Database and can not be retrieved as a normal file for backup.
The best practice is to keep the wlapp file in a separate backup and also making sure that you change the version before building a new wlapp (especially for the production environment)
We're using Worklight 6.1.0.0 / WebSphere 8.0.0.2 (ND/aix).
This seemed pretty close to my question too, but for version 6.0.
I've successfully done uninstall/install to our worklight console war package. However, there is some extra work on re-deploying adapters and such. I was looking for a way to just update the console. Among the ant tasks there is a target 'minimal-update', which sounds like what I'm looking for (is it?). However when all other pieces fell into place, I have an error for mapping the datasources:
ADMA0007E: A validation error occurred in task Mapping resource references to resources. The Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI) name is not specified for resource reference jdbc/WorklightDS in module Worklight with EJB name .
Contents of the 'minimal-update' task is pretty much the same as for 'install'.
I tried that as update from websphere admin console (but i should use the ant task - right?), that gave me a wizard screen to map jdbc/WorklightDS from package to jdbc/WorklightDS on server. This left me wondering how could I tell this using the ant task.
The ant target minimal-update of the sample configuration files documented at http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/wrklight/v6r1m0/topic/com.ibm.worklight.deploy.doc/devref/c_ant_tasks_sample_config_files.html is meant to update a WAR file already deployed (and not uninstalled). In particular, on WAS, it assumes that the JNDI datasources are in place.
If you have uninstalled the WAR file, you should use the target install instead, provided that your databases were created for Worklight 6.1.
If they were created for a previous version of worklight you must upgrade their schema as well running the target 'databases' (and if it's a production installation, you might want to read all the steps in detail at http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/wrklight/v6r1m0/topic/com.ibm.worklight.upgrade.doc/devenv/c_upgrade_to_srvr610_in_production_env.html )
Recently I started to incorporate good practices in my development workflow, so I split the development server and the production one. I also incorporated a versioning system using Subversion (Tortoise SVN).
Now I have the problem of synchronize the production server (Apache shared hosting) with the files of the last development version in my local machine.
Before I didn't have this problem because I worked directly with the server files through Filezilla. But now I don't know how to transfer the files in an efficient way and what are the good practices in this aspect.
I read something about Ant and Phing but I'm not sure if this appropiate to me or is unnecessary complexity.
Rsync is a cross-platform tool designed to help in situations like this; I've used it for similar purposes on multiple occasions. This DevShed tutorial may be of some help.
I don't think you want to "authomatize" it, rather establish control over your deployment and integration process. I generally like SVN but it has some bugs and one problem I have with it is that it doesn't support baselining -- instead you need to make a physical branch of your repository if you want to have a stable version to promote to higher environments while continuing to advance the trunk.
Anyway, you should look at continuous integration and Jenkins. This is a rather wide topic to which not a specific answer can be given. There are many ins, outs, what-have-yous. Depends on your application platform, components, do you have database changes, are you dealing with external web services or 3rd party APIs etc.
Maybe out there are more structured solutions but with Tortoise SVN you can export only the files changed between versions in a folder tree structure. And then, upload as always in Filezilla.
Take a look to:
http://verysimple.com/2007/09/06/using-tortoisesvn-to-export-only-newmodified-files/
Using TortoiseSVN, right-click on your working folder and select
“Show Log” from the TortoiseSVN menu.
Click the revision that was last published
Ctrl+Click the HEAD revision (or whatever revision you want to
release) so that both the old and the new revisions are
highlighted.
Right-click on either of the highlighted revisions and select
“Compare revisions.” This will open a dialog window that lists all
new/modified files.
Select all files from this list (Ctrl+a) then right-click on the
highlighted files and select “Export selection to…”
Side note:
You have to open more details about your workflow and configuration - applicable solutions depends from it. I see 4 main nodes in game: Workplace, Repo Server, DEV, PROD, some nodes may be united (1+2, 2+3), may have different set of tools (do you have SSH, Rsync, NFS, Subversion clients on DEV|PROD). All details matter
In any case - Subversion repositories have such thing, as hooks, in your case post-commit hook (executed on Repository Server side after each commit) may be used
If this hook (any code, which can be executed in unattended mode) you can define and implement any rules for performing deploy to any target under any conditions. You must only know
Which transport will be used for transferring files
What is your webspaces on servers (Working Copies of just clean unversioned files - both solution have pro and contra sets) - it will define, which deployment-policy ("export" or "update") you have to implement in hook
Some links to scripts, which export files, affected by revision (or range of revisions) into unversioned tree
I've deployed the jboss-as-helloworld-errai application in my standalone jboss7.1 instance, and I deleted it later ( in the */standalone/deployments folder). But every time I restart my server it redeploys that application.
Is there another place where jboss reads the application to deploy?
Best regard
Did you delete the file while the server was running?
Probably, JBoss still finds a deployment information in one your /standalone/configuration/standalone*.xml files (at the end of the file). JBoss unpacks its deployments in one of the /standalone/tmp/vfs/temp* folders. As long as it finds a deployment in your configuration file, it will start the application.
The deployment binaries are located under the standalone/data/content. These would also need to be deleted. The best solution is to properly undeploy the application via CLI, the maven plug-in or the web console.
This does not sound like expected behaviour. Can you please confirm the steps that you are taking when using the deployment folder? For example:
Deploy
Copy application file to /standalone/deployments folder
Deployment Scanner creates a .dodeploy marker file
Deployment Scanner picks up application and creates a .deployed marker file
Application confirmed as deployed (checking the Management Console to confirm)
Undeploy
Application deleted from /standalone/deployments folder
Delete application (or) delete .deployed marker file
Deployment scanner undeploys the application and creates .undeployed marker file
Confirm application removed in console
Restart server
Confirmed removal is persistent
The README.txt file in the deployments folder shows the simple undeployment workflow in one easy step in the command line.
rm $AS/standalone/deployments/example.war.deployed
Documentation
You can read more about the deployment scanner in the official docs. There's a topic about the scanner marker files, as well as a parent topic about the scanner and deployments in general. If you are finding issues with the scanner, it's a bug. You might like to test the expected behaviour, and also try the Management Console.
Red Hat Docs - Reference for Deployment Scanner Marker Files
Red Hat Docs - About Application Deployment
Potential Issues
Don't confuse the Deployment Scanner subsystem (which watches the Deployments folder for the Standalone server instance) with the Management Console or Management CLI deployments process. You might be better off using one of the Management tools instead of the hot deployment capability to allow for more control over the state and presence of your application.