JBOSS

[Arijit Ghosh]

Can anyone tell me as to how ANT can be used for creating JAR files, so that I can deploy them ? Where can I find some good examples related to JBOSS (other than www.jboss.org) ?

[Hari babu]

Hi,
You can use
<jar jarfile="${local.jar.file}" basedir="${project.classes.dir}" />
to create a jar file, ofcourse ${} specifies the variable you have specified. For more you can look into ANT documentation.
If you are looking for JBOSS deployment and configuration docs, then jboss.org is the best site.

[Rick Salsa]

Here's a chunk from a project that I'm working on:

 <!-- Project directories -->
  <property name="src.dir" value="${basedir}/src" />
  <property name="etc.dir" value="${basedir}/etc" />
  <property name="web.dir" value="${basedir}/web" />
  <property name="test.dir" value="${basedir}/tests" />
  <property name="reports.dir" value="${basedir}/reports" />
  
  <property name="bin.dir" value="${basedir}/bin" />
  <property name="lib.dir" value="${basedir}/lib" />
  <property name="dist.dir" value="${basedir}/dist" />
<!-- Location of the JBoss distribution -->
  <property environment="env"/>
  <property name="jboss.dist" value="${env.JBOSS_DIST}" />
<!-- Build the ejb jar -->
  <target name="jar" depends="compile">
    <mkdir dir="${dist.dir}" />
    <jar jarfile="${dist.dir}/${ant.project.name}.jar">
      <metainf dir="${etc.dir}">
      <include name="ejb-jar.xml" />
      <include name="jboss.xml" />
      <include name="jbosscmp-jdbc.xml" />
      </metainf>
      <fileset dir="${bin.dir}">
        <include name="${src.pkg.prefix}/entity/**/*.class" />
        <include name="${src.pkg.prefix}/manager/**/*.class" />
        <exclude name="${src.pkg.prefix}/manager/**/*Manager.class" />
        <include name="${src.pkg.prefix}/sequence/*.class" />
        <include name="${src.pkg.prefix}/service/*.class" />
        <include name="${src.pkg.prefix}/system/*.class" />
      </fileset>
    </jar>
  </target>
 <!-- Build the war -->
  <target name="war" depends="clientjar">
    <war warfile="${dist.dir}/${ant.project.name}.war" webxml="${etc.dir}/web.xml">
      <classes dir="${bin.dir}">
        <include name="${src.pkg.prefix}/web/**/*.class" />
      </classes>
      <classes dir="${lib.dir}">
        <include name="*.properties" />
      </classes>
      <lib dir="${dist.dir}" includes="client.jar" />
      <lib dir="${lib.dir}" includes="**/*.jar" />
      <fileset dir="${web.dir}" />
    </war>
  </target>
<!-- Build the ear -->
  <target name="ear" depends="war,jar">
    <ear earfile="${dist.dir}/${ant.project.name}.ear" appxml="${etc.dir}/application.xml">
      <fileset dir="${dist.dir}" includes="${ant.project.name}.jar,${ant.project.name}.war" />
    </ear>
  </target>
  <!-- Deploy the application -->
  <target name="deploy" depends="ear">
    <copy file="${dist.dir}/${ant.project.name}.ear" todir="${jboss.dist}/server/default/deploy" />
  </target>

Make sure you understand variables in ant, otherwise, it might confuse you.
HTH,
/rick
[ May 14, 2002: Message edited by: Rick Salsa ]

[Arijit Ghosh]

Thanks Rick.. Yes I want to understand each and every variable in ANT specially in context to deployment descriptor for EJB (JBOSS related).
Can you suggest something ?

[Ashik Uzzaman]

How good is JBoss as a J2EE server and EJB server? I am finding a good one and so need some alternative suggesions other than JBoss also...

[John Bateman]

Originally posted by Ashik uzzaman:
How good is JBoss as a J2EE server and EJB server? I am finding a good one and so need some alternative suggesions other than JBoss also...

What is your criteria for the search. What would be a 'good' server? Cheap, load balanced, best security etc?
Alternatives (no particular order):
- BEA Weblogic
- IBM Websphere
- Orion
- Oracle IAS
- Sybase
- Silverstream
- Resin EJB

[Arijit Ghosh]

Hi John,
Are any one of these alternatives free and of open source code standard ?

[Kishore Dandu]

How about the J2EE server Pramati. They got very good reviews.
Kishore.