Is there a way in glassfish v2 asadmin utility to copy jar files into the server lib or the domain's lib? I want to do a remote deployment using hudson on a different box so i have a script that executes a bunch of asadmin commands.
asadmin deploy moves your deployable code to the autodeploy directory making glassfish aware of its existence to deploy. I believe copying a simple library out there won't net any effect without proper deployment descriptors. In any event I don't think the asadmin deploy would have access to your domain/lib or server/lib directory but rather only your application directory structure itself.
To do what you are trying to achieve, it sounds more like writing a simple ant script.
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With CloudBees now supporting deployment of Java applications, is it possible to use the post-build action in Jenkins "Deploy to CloudBees" to deploy your app? Furthermore, I'd like to use the Maven assembly plugin's jar-with-dependencies goal so that I can simply and automatically deploy my entire app to CloudBees right through Jenkins.
While the current CloudBees deployer Jenkins plugin appears to not support this, in fact it does. Here are the steps that after much trial and error worked for me:
Include the jar-with-dependencies maven plugin in your pom.xml. I used the <goal>single</goal> and <descriptorRef>jar-with-dependencies</descriptorRef> described here. That will put an additional jar file in your target folder {artifactId}-{version}-jar-with-dependencies.jar
Deploy that jar via the CloudBees API. The last line of this page explains how to do that. Specify your runnable jar, make sure the runtimeContainer=java, and the jar file to be uploaded, and it should deploy. Even though CloudBees says to use a zip file, a jar file works just fine.
Once that has been deployed once via the command line, your app ID now "remembers" those settings so that it can be done via Jenkins so long as you're doing the CloudBees Deploy to that same app. In your Jenkins job, add the "Deploy to CloudBees" Post-build action to your configuration. Click "Add Web Application" (strange, I know, since it's not a web-app! CloudBees says they will work to change that...), select First Match (even if it's a Maven project, use First Match), enter your application ID that you deployed your app to in step 2, and then enter the full name of your jar file and try your build again. It should upload your jar file and activate the instance in your CloudBees PaaS. Note that this still hard-codes the version in the jar file - I am working to see how to setup a variable for the version of the jar file so that it corresponds to the Maven build version.
Once you have it setup correctly and deployed initially with the bees sdk, it should just deploy from the deployer plugin on Jenkins as a war normally would.
Once set up, the settings that define where your main class is persist between deploys.
Currently I have a simple maven project that is building a jar file and putting it inside target/some-1.0.jar when i run mvn install.
I want to copy this file to another location when I run mvn deploy.
Currently the location is on the same machine, but it would also be great if the solution could be applied for multiple targets, some of them being on other machines (scp deployment).
What is the easiest solution to do this? I would be nice, if you could include an example too.
Details: I have few jira plugins that are compiled as jar files and I just want to be able to run a single maven command that would copy the files to the server and eventually restart the server.
mvn deploy is intended for deployment to a remote Maven repository. mvn install is used for copying to the local Maven repo (so actually, the jar is also ending up in $HOME/.m2/repository, as well as target).
I'm not sure what you're intending to do, but I suggest you look at deploying something like http://www.sonatype.org/nexus/ if you want Maven artifacts to be available to multiple machines. This will integrate nicely with the rest of Maven.
Edit: based on your updated question, it's probably best to investigate the Wagon ssh plugin, or see if there's an Ant plugin. A suitable phase would be pre-integration-test: install and deploy should be run after you've run your integration tests to check the artefact works as expected. Use profiles to distinguish the local vs. remote cases.
how would i get maven to deploy my app for me.
i want to be able to type
mvn deply:devserver (or something like that) and have it do the following things
SCP all dependency jars to the remote devserver/var/lib/tomcat6/shared/company folder
SCP the war file to the remote devserver/var/lib/tomcat6/webapps folder
and since i can already hear the statements/questions "why are you doing it like this, you can just build the war with dependencies in it" bla bla bla i will answer. this server is going to be running about 35 different war files (be gentle i inherited this project) all using the same dependencies so i don't see the point of having the tomcat classloader loading the same 50 or so libraries 35 times. id rather have tomcat load them on startup and share them with the webapps.
and NO, manager is not installed on this instance of tomcat so please don't go there. security guys wont let us install the management console on a publicly visible server so all the deployments must be via SCP file copies.
i could do this in about 5 minutes with ant and i havn't eliminated the possibility of simply writing a shell script to do it but i would like to give maven a chance first.
You should script the 'deploy' of the code to the server. If you choose to use Ant, do it, but Maven is not the right tool for this job.
The Maven 'deploy' goal is used to deploy built artifacts to a repository server for other projects to be able to download as dependencies. It is not the 'deploy' you are thinking of.
If you really need this done by Maven though, there is a maven ant plugin which lets you run Ant tasks in Maven and you could bind this to your deploy step. I would advise against this though because it very much goes against the conventions of using Maven as a build tool.
I need to deploy a web applicataion as an exploded archive (instead of .war) due to some legacy servlet path location code used in it (ServletContext.getRealPath()). I only have web-based admin console access to the WebLogic 11g server that I intend to deploy to. However, I can't figure how to do it. I see an option for deploying archives, but not directories.
Thanks!
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13222_01/wls/docs81/deployment/overview.html
"WebLogic Server supports deployments that are packaged either as archive files using the jar utility, or as exploded archive directories".
The link
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13222_01/wls/docs81/deployment/overview.html
is for version 8.1. In newer versions this option does not exist in the admin console (production mode).
The only way is if you somehow access the operating system, or ask somebody to, unzip the war file in some place and then install from that directory (through admin console). You can also upload the war using admin console, and then in the uploaded directory ask to whom as access to SO to unzip it in that place.
You can also try some ninja stuff like: upload the war that you want to expand. Then make another war that contains code that unzips the war you want to expand.
To solve your problem in weblogic11gR1,In admin console in configuration tab -->web-App container click the option "Archived Real path enabled" so that you can access the servletcontext.getRealpath().
The spring source code examples use maven tomcat plugin and i am able to run these projects using the command mvn tomcat:run but what i dont see the application is not deployed in local tomcat server("C:\apache tomcat\webapps\")..
And how it is different from cargo plugin? (In this case when i ran the command mvn cargo:redeploy, i see the application deployed in the location "C:\apache tomcat\webapps\")
If i add cargo plugin to the POM of spring examples (like mvn-showcase,petclinic)..will it screw up the things?
The spring source code examples use maven tomcat plugin and i am able to run these projects using the command mvn tomcat:run but what i dont see the application is not deployed in local tomcat server("C:\apache tomcat\webapps\")
The command tomcat:run starts an embedded Tomcat, it doesn't deploy an application to your local Tomcat (why does it matter anyway?).
And how it is different from cargo plugin?
Cargo is a container agnostic tool so you could configure it to use a remote container, a locally installed container, an embedded container (as long as implementations are provided for a given container) and still use an unified API (or set of commands).
In this case when I ran the command mvn cargo:redeploy, I see the application deployed in the location "C:\apache tomcat\webapps\"
Cargo doesn't support running Tomcat+6.x in embedded mode. So you are very likely using it with a locally installed container and your app gets physically deployed on it.
If i add cargo plugin to the POM of spring examples (like mvn-showcase,petclinic)..will it screw up the things?
It won't screw up anything, why would it.
You can use tomcat maven plugin and deploy it to external tomcat server.
see this link for all the available goals. tomcat-run will start a embedded server but tomcat:deploy works for external tomcat.