Where is sun-appserv-ant.jar in Glassfish v3
I have created a small sample EJB project and I want to use ant to deploy the application to Glassfish v3.
Ive spent a lot of time on google trying to achieve this and all ant samples seem to refer to a jar file called "sun-appserv-ant.jar" which is supposed to be located in the modules directory of the application server install, however, I cannot find it anywhere, nor can I seem to find the reason why, or if there is even an ant based alternative.
Thanks
The sun-appserv-ant.xml file was not brought forward with v3.
You are not completely stuck though.
You can read about the Ant exec task, which you can use to trigger asadmin commands.
If you are very adventurous, you may want to investigate the bp-project framework that is used by the sample projects that ship with the Java EE 6 SDK.
You can get a peek at the bp-project framework by looking at the code in the glassfish-samples repository.
You should add the glassfish-ant-tasks module through the GlassFish Update Tool
After much agony I found an example of how to use the V3.x ant tools here
The downside, for non-French-speakers, is that it's in French. The upside is that the Java parts are still in Java.
From what I can tell, the Ant tasks now differ significantly from what is documented by Sun (Oracle):
You must use the Glassfish server update tool to get the glassfish-ant-tasks module.
This will cause the file *glassfish_dir*/lib/ant/ant-tasks.jar to be downloaded. That must be included on your classpath
Define an as-ant-init target in your build.xml
<target name="as-ant-init">
<taskdef name="sun-appserv-deploy"
classname="org.glassfish.ant.tasks.DeployTask"
classpath="${build-lib}/ant-tasks.jar" />
<taskdef name="sun-appserv-undeploy"
classname="org.glassfish.ant.tasks.UndeployTask"
classpath="${build-lib}/ant-tasks.jar" />
<taskdef name="sun-appserv-component"
classname="org.glassfish.ant.tasks.ComponentTask"
classpath="${build-lib}/ant-tasks.jar" />
<taskdef name="sun-appserv-admin"
classname="org.glassfish.ant.tasks.AdminTask"
classpath="${build-lib}/ant-tasks.jar" />
<taskdef name="sun-appserv-redeploy"
classname="org.glassfish.ant.tasks.RedeployTask"
classpath="${build-lib}/ant-tasks.jar" />
<taskdef name="sun-appserv-start-server"
classname="org.glassfish.ant.tasks.StartServerTask"
classpath="${build-lib}/ant-tasks.jar" />
<taskdef name="sun-appserv-stop-server"
classname="org.glassfish.ant.tasks.StopServerTask"
classpath="${build-lib}/ant-tasks.jar" />
</target>
Write the deployment target. The rules are similar to what's in the documentation, EXCEPT
A. Remove references to the <server> element that was used in older versions.
B. All of the attributes that would have been attached to <server> in the older version of the API are now attached directly to the containing element, such as <sun-appserv-deploy>, like so:
<target name="deploy">
<sun-appserv-deploy
user="${glassfish.admin-user}"
passwordfile="${glassfish.passwordfile}}"
host="${glassfish.host}"
port="${glassfish.admin-port}"
installDir="${asinstalldir}"
upload="true" >
<component
file="${dist.warfile}"
name="My application"
contextroot="${glassfish.context-root}" />
</sun-appserv-deploy>
</target>
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I'm pretty new to build servers but have been asked by my employer to do some testing (because F5 is not a build process, as the excellent article by Jeff Atwood says). At this stage, I'm working on getting some sample builds and test reports up and running on a CruiseControl.NET server. So far, I've gotten a build up and running (the configuration file will need some tidying up before adding new builds/projects but the proof of concept is there) but the reporting is causing something of a headache.
The main report I'm looking for is for out NUnit tests and SpecFlow integration tests. The tests run fine (as I'm getting a sensible looking xml file generated) and am looking to merge that in to the main build results so that I can show the results of the NUnit/SpecFlowtests.
Whenever the build completes, the following is reported in the messages (in ViewFarmReport.aspx): "Failing Tasks : XmlLogPublisher "
This combined with the following error reported in the Windows application log (source - CC.Net)
2015-03-24 08:36:52,987 [Initech.SuperCrm-DEV] ERROR CruiseControl.NET [(null)] - Publisher threw exception: ThoughtWorks.CruiseControl.Core.CruiseControlException: Unable to read the contents of the file: C:\CCNet\BuildArtifacts\Initech.SuperCrm-DEV\msbuild-results-7c657954-2c3e-405f-b0f1-7da1299788fd.xml ---> System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not find file 'C:\CCNet\BuildArtifacts\Initech.SuperCrm-DEV\msbuild-results-7c657954-2c3e-405f-b0f1-7da1299788fd.xml'.
(company/application name "censored")
This leads me to suspect that the failure to merge in the msbuild results (which I believe CruiseControl.NET automatically scrapes since version... 1.5 or 1.6?) is preventing the NUnit results from being merged in.
There is no msbuild-results file in the BuildArtifacts folder, which does not surprise me as I do not believe my current msbuild configuration allows for xml based logging as I am using the ThoughtWorks.CruiseControl.MsBuild.dll logger.
According to the online documentation for CruiseControl.NET there is XML enabled custom logger: ThoughtWorks.CruiseControl.MsBuild.XmlLogger which can be used, however the download location for this logger: here
appears not to exist any more.
Can anyone say whether I'm thinking along the right lines here and what my options are?
For reference, here is my complete configuration:
<cruisecontrol xmlns:cb="urn:ccnet.config.builder">
<cb:define MSBuildPath="C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319" />
<cb:define WorkingBaseDir="C:\CCNet\Builds" />
<cb:define ArtifactBaseDir="C:\CCNet\BuildArtifacts" />
<cb:define MSBuildLogger="C:\Program Files (x86)\CruiseControl.NET\server
\ThoughtWorks.CruiseControl.MsBuild.dll" />
<cb:define NUnitExe="C:\Jenkins\Nunit\nunit-console.exe" />
<cb:define name="vsts_ci">
<executable>C:\Jenkins\tf.exe</executable>
<server>http://tfs-srv:8080/tfs/LEEDS/</server>
<domain>CONTOSO</domain>
<autoGetSource>true</autoGetSource>
<cleanCopy>true</cleanCopy>
<force>true</force>
<deleteWorkspace>true</deleteWorkspace>
</cb:define>
<project name="Initech.Libraries" description="Shared libraries used in all Initech projects"
queue="Q1">
<state type="state" directory="C:\CCNet\State"/>
<artifactDirectory>$(ArtifactBaseDir)\Initech.Libraries</artifactDirectory>
<workingDirectory>$(WorkingBaseDir)\Initech.Libraries</workingDirectory>
<triggers>
<intervalTrigger
name="continuous"
seconds="30"
buildCondition="IfModificationExists"
initialSeconds="5"/>
</triggers>
<sourcecontrol type="vsts">
<cb:vsts_ci/>
<workspace>CCNET_Initech.Libraries</workspace>
<project>$/InitechLibraries/Initech.Libraries</project>
</sourcecontrol>
</project>
<project name="Initech.SuperCrm-DEV" description="Initech.SuperCrm Application, Development
Version" queue="Q1">
<cb:define ArtifactDirectory="$(ArtifactBaseDir)\Initech.SuperCrm-DEV" />
<cb:define WorkingDirectory="$(WorkingBaseDir)\Initech.SuperCrm-DEV" />
<cb:define OutputDirectory="$(WorkingDirectory)\Initech.SuperCrm\bin\Debug" />
<cb:define ProjectFile="Initech.SuperCrm.sln" />
<cb:define NUnitLog="$(WorkingDirectory)\NunitResults.xml" />
<state type="state" directory="C:\CCNet\State"/>
<artifactDirectory>$(ArtifactDirectory)</artifactDirectory>
<workingDirectory>$(WorkingDirectory)</workingDirectory>
<triggers>
<!-- check the source control every X time for changes,
and run the tasks if changes are found -->
<intervalTrigger
name="continuous"
seconds="30"
buildCondition="IfModificationExists"
initialSeconds="5"/>
</triggers>
<sourcecontrol type="vsts">
<cb:vsts_ci/>
<workspace>CCNET_Initech.SuperCrm-DEV</workspace>
<project>$/InitechSuperCrm/SuperCrm/Initech.SuperCrm-DEV</project>
</sourcecontrol>
<tasks>
<exec>
<executable>C:\Program Files (x86)\DXperience 12.1\Tools\DXperience
\ProjectConverter-console.exe</executable>
<buildArgs>$(WorkingDirectory)</buildArgs>
</exec>
<msbuild>
<executable>$(MSBuildPath)\MSBuild.exe</executable>
<workingDirectory>$(WorkingDirectory)</workingDirectory>
<projectFile>$(ProjectFile)</projectFile>
<timeout>900</timeout>
<logger>$(MSBuildLogger)</logger>
</msbuild>
<exec>
<executable>$(NUnitExe)</executable>
<buildArgs>/xml=$(NUnitLog) /nologo $(WorkingDirectory)\$(ProjectFile)
</buildArgs>
</exec>
</tasks>
<publishers>
<buildpublisher>
<sourceDir>$(OutputDirectory)</sourceDir>
<useLabelSubDirectory>true</useLabelSubDirectory>
<alwaysPublish>false</alwaysPublish>
<cleanPublishDirPriorToCopy>true</cleanPublishDirPriorToCopy>
</buildpublisher>
<merge>
<files>
<file>$(NUnitLog)</file>
</files>
</merge>
<xmllogger logDir="C:\CCNet\BuildArtifacts\Initech.SuperCrm-DEV\buildlogs" />
<artifactcleanup cleanUpMethod="KeepLastXBuilds"
cleanUpValue="50" />
</publishers>
</project>
</cruisecontrol>
I've been tearing my hair while trying to figure this out, and I don't have much to begin with, so any help would be greatly appreciated.
After a prolonged period of banging my head against the wall, I seem to have finally found the solution (well solutions).
1) Kobush.Build.dll (https://www.nuget.org/packages/Kobush.Build/) can be used as the logger for MSBuild. Looking at the attributions in CruiseControl.NET's documentation, it appears to have been written by the same developer (but extended).
2) Some tweaks were needed due to the default location of the msbuild-report output. Because, by default, it was dumped to the buildartifacts folder then it is susceptible to being prematurely deleted.
I no longer clean the publish directory prior to copying (in the buildpublisher) and perform the merge and xmllogger portions of the publisher before artifact cleanup.
As a result, I now have msbuild and nunit output/results integrated in to the main build log and these can be consumed through the CruiseControl.NET dashboard.
There's probably a tidier way of handling this, but at the moment I'm just getting a proof of concept going.
I'm creating a MSI setup with WIX for my Web Application. This works correct. The only thing that I don't get to work is to enabling the config transformation of the standard web application publish method.
I understand that you can add the using tag for existing target files. I try'ed to add the TransformXml to the AfterBuild Target in the project file of the WIX installer but that doesn't work.
<TransformXml Source="Web.Config" Transform="Web.$(Configuration).config" Destination="Web.Config" />
Can someone help me?
I created a test project for this called WebApplicationWix
I didn't see any mention of TransformXml in your example project.
You need code similar to this:
<UsingTask TaskName="TransformXml" AssemblyFile="$(MSBuildExtensionsPath)\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v10.0\Web\Microsoft.Web.Publishing.Tasks.dll" />
<Target Name="AfterCompile">
<CallTarget Targets="TransformWebConfiguration" Condition="Exists('web.$(Configuration).config')"/>
</Target>
<Target Name="TransformWebConfiguration">
<!-- Generate transformed web configuration -->
<TransformXml Source="web.config" Destination="web.transformed.config" Transform="web.$(Configuration).config" />
</Target>
A few things to note:
Check the path to Microsoft.Web.Publishing.Tasks.dll in the UsingTask element (change for your version of Visual Studio)
In your example, the source and destination were the same; you should make sure the destination is a different file so that you don't have file lock issues or overwrite the web.config you're trying to transform with the transformed one.
In Visual Studio 2010, there were file locking issues with TransformXml, so be careful of that if you're using 2010.
I am having issues understanding Cruise Control.
I would like to create a build automation in order to perform the build in my project. To do that I created the following entry in the ccnet.config file
<project name="My Web Release " description="Web config">
<workingDirectory>d:\GIT</workingDirectory>
<triggers/>
<sourcecontrol type="git">
<repository>GIT REPO</repository>
<branch>release-name</branch>
<autoGetSource>true</autoGetSource>
<fetchSubmodules>true</fetchSubmodules>
<executable>C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\cmd\git.exe</executable>
<tagOnSuccess>false</tagOnSuccess>
<commitBuildModifications>false</commitBuildModifications>
<commitUntrackedFiles>false</commitUntrackedFiles>
<tagCommitMessage> Build {0}</tagCommitMessage>
<tagNameFormat>Build-{0}</tagNameFormat>
<committerName>Build</committerName>
<committerEMail>build#build.com</committerEMail>
<workingDirectory>$(workingDirectory)\Sources\WEB</workingDirectory>
<timeout>600000</timeout>
</sourcecontrol>
<tasks>
<msbuild>
<executable>c:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\MSBuild.exe</executable>
<buildFile>BuildScript.xml</buildFile>
<targets>NewBuild</targets>
<logger>C:\Program Files (x86)\CruiseControl.NET\server\ThoughtWorks.CruiseControl.MsBuild.dll</logger>
</msbuild>
</tasks>
<publishers>
<xmllogger />
<artifactcleanup cleanUpMethod="KeepLastXBuilds" cleanUpValue="50" />
</publishers>
</project>
And I do have a BuildScript.xml file.
My question is:
Is this a nAnt or MSBUILD script?
I am asking because I am trying to follow the documentation but I get a lot of issues regarding unknown tasks and so on.
For instance, this:
<property name="configuration" value="CLOSED" />
Would generate a unknown "property" task.
I am looking at MSBuild documentation to use a Move task.
and I got to this line:
<move file="originPath" tofile="TargetPath"/>
But I get:
BuildScript.xml(18,3): error MSB4036: The "Move" task was not
found. C heck the following: 1.) The name of the task in the project
file is the same as the name of the task class. 2.) The task class is
"public" and implements the Microsoft.Build.Framework.ITask interface.
3.) The task is correctly declared w ith in the project file, or in the *.tasks files located in the "C:
\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727" directory.
What is driving me crazy is that it was working before we migrated to Cruise Control.
Is this being interpreted as nAnt or MSBuild? Any ideas on why I am getting these errors?
It looks like your mixing nant and msbuild, if it was msbuild it would look like
<Project xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003" Tools="4.0">
<Target Name="Move">
<PropertyGroup>
<configuration>CLOSED</configuration>
</PropertyGroup>
<Move SourceFiles="Somefilefile" DestinationFolder="c:\temp"/>
</Target>
</Project>
So casing was an issue and that you need to specify the tools version as move is available from 4.0.
I am deploying some files on the server. But when I am doing this, build is deleting all the files and folder which are residing at that location. I don't want to delete all the files from the server. I want to exclude one folder (folder name is Temp) from the destination folder. Temp folder should not get deleted while deleting other files. How to do that?
Here is TFS Build Definition
<PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(DeployEnvironment)' == 'Dev' ">
<DeployPath>\\server1\D$\temp\reports</DeployPath>
</PropertyGroup>
<Target Name="CoreCompileSolution" />
<Target Name="AfterCompile">
<Message Importance ="high" Text="Solution Root: $(SolutionRoot)" />
<Message Importance ="high" Text="Out Dir: $(OutDir)" />
<Copy SourceFiles="#(RPTFiles)" DestinationFolder="$(OutDir)_PublishedWebsites\Reports\" />
</Target>
<Target Name="AfterDropBuild" >
<CreateItem Exclude="$(DeployPath)\Temp*.*">
<Output ItemName="PreviousDeployment" TaskParameter="Include" />
</CreateItem>
</Target>
Why are you using a Copy task? I think it is intended to be used for local manipulations during build, rather than deployment (because it does not give you a chance to easily configure behaviour).
I suggest that instead of copy tsak you use one of the following options
Non-web applications - use Robocopy:
/XD dirs [dirs]... : eXclude Directories matching given names/paths.
XF and XD can be used in combination e.g.
ROBOCOPY c:\source d:\dest /XF *.doc *.xls /XD c:\unwanted /S
see this link for usage guide. You either run it from the command line (using <Exec Command="" > task, or employ MBuiild Community Tasksproject which has a nice wrapper.
Web applications: you should use Web Deploy for your deployments. You an either use MSBuild integration (VS 2010 and later, see this blog series for guidance on setup and configure on VS2010 NB: it has been much simplified in VS 2012, but I don't have a link to share at the moment) or run it from command line (prior to VS 2010):
<Exec Command=""$(WebDeployToolPath)" -verb:sync - source:dirPath='$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\Published\' -dest:dirPath='$(DeployDirectoryLocalPath)',computerName=$(DeployTargetURL),userName='$(DeployUserName)',password='$(Password)',authType='Basic' -skip:skipaction='Delete',objectname='filePath',absolutepath='app_offline.htm' -skip:skipaction='Delete',objectname='filePath',absolutepath='logs\\.*' -skip:skipaction='Delete',objectname='dirPath',absolutepath='logs\\.*' -skip:skipaction='Delete',objectname='filePath',absolutepath='UserFiles\\.*' -skip:skipaction='Delete',objectname='dirPath',absolutepath='UserFiles\\.*' -verbose -allowUntrusted" />
NB using skip:skipaction='Delete.. to skip removing files and folders.
Update
It looks like I've undestood this a bit incorrect (I supposed, deployment happenned in AfterCompile target, however, as I see now, TFS uses CoreDropBuild target to do the deployment.
So I think, what you need is to override CoreDropBuild target as described: here. (although, I've never tried this).
You can either use Copy task as the author of the thread, or go with Robocopy/webdeploy based on your personal preference.
I'm new to NAnt and have been able to create a <target> which
1) Deletes any code from the current folder
2) Exports fresh code from SVN
3) Builds the code in the default directory which is the PrecompiledWeb folder (its a web app)
Here it is:
<target name="export" description="export code from svn">
<delete dir="${Delete.Dir}"></delete>
<exec program="svn" commandline="export ${MySVN.Repos} ${MySVN.Dest}" />
<msbuild project="${Solution.Filename}">
<property name="Configuration" value="Release"/>
</msbuild>
</target>
I want to specify a custom output directory (other than "PrecompiledWeb"). Is this possible and could you please show me the necessary tag/property?
Thank you!
EDIT
Thanks to Scott and Si, I'm getting closer to a solution, but I still don't have anything that works. There comments led me to this article on MSBuild's Output Path Property. Using their code:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<project name="test" default="build" basedir="." xmlns="http://nant.sf.net/schemas/nant-0.84.win32.net-1.0.xsd">
<target name="build">
<exec program="${framework::get-framework-directory('net-3.5')}/msbuild.exe">
<arg value="${Full.Path}\Code\MySolution.sln" />
<arg value="/p:OutputPath=${Full.Path}\Output\" />
</exec>
</target>
</project>
This will sucessfully run; however, in my solution which contains a web site and a class library, it publishes the class library dll to the specified output path, but it still publishes the actual web site to the default PrecompiledWeb folder.
Does anyone have any suggestions for how to change the PrecompiledWeb folder path from NAnt?
Thanks again to everyone who's helped!
Edit 2 Final Solution
Here is what I finally was able to get working (updated for .net 4):
<exec program="${framework::get-framework-directory('net-4.0')}/msbuild.exe">
<arg value="${Full.Path}\Code\MySolution.sln" />
<arg value="/t:Rebuild" />
<arg value="/t:ResolveReferences" />
<arg value="/t:_CopyWebApplication" />
<arg value="/p:OutDir=${Build.Output}bin\" />
<arg value="/p:WebProjectOutputDir=${Build.Output}" />
<arg value="/p:Configuration=Release" />
</exec>
One can specify and override some of properties for msbuild. In order to specify the output directory, override the OutputDir property.
<target name="export" description="export code from svn">
<delete dir="${Delete.Dir}" />
<exec program="svn" commandline="export ${MySVN.Repos} ${MySVN.Dest}" />
<msbuild project="${Solution.Filename}">
<property name="Configuration" value="Release"/>
<property name="OutputDir" value="${Output.Dir}"/>
</msbuild>
</target>
Just had a quick peek at a project, does OutputPath instead of OutputDir help?
Another option might be a web deployment project, which I like because it calls aspnet_compiler as well as the C# compiler, so it picks up issues which you may otherwise miss until deployment.
A build script for one of our projects uses this command to publish a web application:
msbuild.exe /t:_CopyWebApplication /p:Configuration=Release /p:OutDir=.\..\published\ /p:WebProjectOutputDir=.\..\published
(The current directory is set to the web app's project directory at this point, which is why no .csproj file is specified. The entire solution has already been rebuilt earlier in the script.)
By the sound of it, WebProjectOutputDir might be the property you need.
/t:_CopyWebApplication may also be important. I've not used NAnt so I don't know if you can pass this parameter with the msbuild task. You may need to use an exec task, like in this example: http://www.netomatix.com/development/wapwithnant.aspx. This example appears to rebuild and copy all in one go.
When using the task, the correct property name is OutDir, not OutputDir:
<msbuild project="${Solution.Filename}">
<property name="Configuration" value="Release"/>
<property name="OutDir" value="${Output.Dir}"/>
</msbuild>
A source of confusion is that you're blending two distinct build systems. Your NAnt target is delegating all the work of figuring out how to publish your web application to the solution file, hence by extension to the csproj files it references.
csproj files are MsBuild files, so you should probably look there for how to direct your project output. This post by dave^2 might be helpful on that issue.
You can publish your web application wherever you want using NAnt, provided it's doing the publishing. You can do the same with MsBuild. The cause of your quandary is that NAnt is not doing the publishing in this case, and you're letting the csproj file determine the location of your web directory. So either bypass the csproj file and have NAnt (or MsBuild) publish the code; or modify the csproj file to publish the web application where you want; or make a second location for your web application and publish it there as well using your build tool.
AFAIK, those options are exhaustive.
Hmm, don't know how to do it with MSBuild in Nant, but using NAnt, I've done it previously like this:
<solution solutionfile="${build.dir}\solution.sln">
<webmap>
<map url="http://localhost/somdir/project.csproj"
path="c:\inetpub\wwwroot\somelocaldir" />
<webmap>
</solution>
But then, you're using the NAnt 'solution' task offcourse instead of using MSBuild directly.
edit:
I'm also having a look at some msbuild options;
If you set OutDir & OutputPath to the same value, what happens ?
Try something like this:
<property name="nant.settings.currentframework" value="net-3.5"/>
<msbuild project="${Solution.Filename}">
<property name="Configuration" value="Release"/>
<property name="OutDir" value="${Full.Path}\Output\\"/>
<property name="WebProjectOutputDir" value="${Full.Path}\Output\Web\\"/>
</msbuild>