Jboss newbie (5.1.0 GA) + eclipse: what's the best configuration?

[Benjamin Weaver]

I am a JBoss newbie. I have now cut my teeth on deploying to JBoss 5.1.0.GA.

I now want to set up a JBoss 5.1.0.GA instance for development in combination with Eclipse Helios (+ Maven).


My goal is to be able to hot-step/debug through Java code while running the server in a development environment.

What is the best way to achieve this environment?

1. using a JBoss plugin to Eclipse (JBoss Tools?)?

or

running a free standing JBoss instance, referencing it in Eclipse, and running it that way?


These two options would seem similar to those available for Eclipse development on Tomcat.


And is there a decent JBoss 5.1 server or Eclipse plugin to run on Windows XP? otherwise I'll use something that will run on Linux.

[Siitesh Hind]

Hi

I have nightmares configuring JBoss 5.1.0 GA Server on Eclipse Juno. It just doesnt work.

I have to run JBoss instance seperately and use build.xml on Eclipse's project workspace to deploy the jar/ear/war to the deploy folder.

Works just fine for me besides my Eclipse too has no issues.

[Benjamin Weaver]

Thank you, Siitesh, this is excellent, just the kind of advice I was looking for.

I will try a free-standing instance. Interesting about build.xml; I will look into using that.

Ben Weaver

[Siitesh Hind]

Ping me your email id and I will send you the build.xml else let me try posting it here.

ASLIBREPOSITORY_HOME
AXIS14_HOME
JBOSS_HOME

These settings mentioned above are done on the computer's Environment Variables (either system or user variable)

<project name="seetws" default="dist" basedir=".">
	<property environment="env"/>

	<property name="DESCRIPTORS.DIR" value="${basedir}/src/descriptors"/>
	<property name="WSDL.DIR" value="${basedir}/src/wsdl"/>
	<property name="ANT.OUT.DIR" value="${basedir}/antout"/>
	<property name="BIN.DIR" value="${ANT.OUT.DIR}/bin"/>
	<property name="CONFIG.DIR" value="${ANT.OUT.DIR}/confg"/>
	<property name="WAR.OUT.DIR" value="${ANT.OUT.DIR}/dist"/>
	<property name="WAR.FILE" value="HelloWS.war"/>
	<property name="WSDL.FILE" value="MyHelloService.wsdl"/>
	<property name="SRC-PATH" value="${basedir}/src"/>
	<property name="ASLIBREPOSITORY_HOME" value="${env.ASLIBREPOSITORY_HOME}"/>
	<property name="GENERATED-SRC" value="${basedir}/generated"/>
	<property name="AXIS_LIB_HOME" value="${env.AXIS14_HOME}/lib"/>
	<property name="JBOSS_HOME" value="${env.JBOSS_HOME}"/>
	<property name="JBOSS-DEPLOY-DIR" value="${env.JBOSS_HOME}/server/default/deploy" />

	<!-- server classpath -->
	<path id="servernew.cp">
		<fileset dir="${AXIS_LIB_HOME}">
			<include name="*.jar" />
		</fileset>


		<fileset dir="${env.JWSDP_HOME}/jaxrpc/lib">
			<include name="jaxrpc-*.jar"/>
		</fileset>
		<fileset dir="${env.JWSDP_HOME}/jwsdp-shared/lib">
			<include name="activation.jar"/>
			<include name="mail.jar"/>
		</fileset>
		<fileset dir="${env.JWSDP_HOME}/saaj/lib">
			<include name="saaj-api.jar"/>
			<include name="saaj-impl.jar"/>
		</fileset>

		<fileset dir="${env.JWSDP_HOME}/jaxp/lib/endorsed">
			<include name="dom.jar"/>
			<include name="sax.jar"/>
			<include name="xalan.jar"/>
			<include name="xercesImpl.jar"/>
		</fileset>
		<pathelement location="classes"/>
	</path>
	
	

	<!-- prepare -->
	<target name="prepare">

		<mkdir dir="${BIN.DIR}" />
		<mkdir dir="${WAR.OUT.DIR}"/>
		<mkdir dir="${CONFIG.DIR}"/>
		<mkdir dir="${GENERATED-SRC}" />

		<!-- server classpath -->
		<path id="server.cp">
			<fileset dir="${AXIS_LIB_HOME}">
				<include name="*.jar" />
			</fileset>
	

			<fileset dir="${env.JWSDP_HOME}/jaxrpc/lib">
				<include name="jaxrpc-*.jar"/>
			</fileset>
			<fileset dir="${env.JWSDP_HOME}/jwsdp-shared/lib">
				<include name="activation.jar"/>
				<include name="mail.jar"/>
			</fileset>
			<fileset dir="${env.JWSDP_HOME}/saaj/lib">
				<include name="saaj-api.jar"/>
				<include name="saaj-impl.jar"/>
			</fileset>

			<fileset dir="${env.JWSDP_HOME}/jaxp/lib/endorsed">
				<include name="dom.jar"/>
				<include name="sax.jar"/>
				<include name="xalan.jar"/>
				<include name="xercesImpl.jar"/>
			</fileset>
			<pathelement location="classes"/>
		</path>
	</target>

	<!-- clean -->
	<target name="clean">
		<delete dir="${ANT.OUT.DIR}" quiet="true"/>
		<delete dir="${GENERATED-SRC}" quiet="true"/>
	</target>

	<target name="compile" depends="clean,prepare">
		<javac destdir="${BIN.DIR}" >
			<classpath refid="server.cp"/>
			<src path="${SRC-PATH}" />
			<include name="**/*.java" />
		</javac>
	</target>

	
	<!-- Wscompile Task def -->
	<taskdef name="wscompile" classname="com.sun.xml.rpc.tools.ant.Wscompile">
		<classpath refid="servernew.cp"/>
	</taskdef>
	

	<!-- dist service -->
	<target name="dist" depends="compile">

		
		<!--features="documentliteral  rpcliteral" -->
		<!-- generate the jaxrpc-mapping.xml and server artifacts -->
		<wscompile 
			verbose="false" 
			xPrintStackTrace="true"
			keep="true" 
			fork="true" 
			base="${SRC-PATH}"
			server="yes" 
			features="documentliteral" 
			sourcebase="${GENERATED-SRC}"
			mapping="${CONFIG.DIR}/mapping.xml" 
			config="${DESCRIPTORS.DIR}/config.xml">
			<classpath>
				<pathelement location="${BIN.DIR}"/>
				<path refid="server.cp"/>
			</classpath>
		</wscompile>

		<!-- compile the generated source code -->
		<javac destdir="${BIN.DIR}" >
			<classpath>
				<path refid="server.cp" />
			</classpath>
			<src path="${GENERATED-SRC}" />
			<include name="**/*.java" />
		</javac>

		<copy file="${SRC-PATH}/${WSDL.FILE}" todir="${WSDL.DIR}" overwrite="true"/>
		
		<!-- generate war file -->
		<war warfile="${WAR.OUT.DIR}/${WAR.FILE}" webxml="${DESCRIPTORS.DIR}/web.xml">
			<zipfileset dir="${WSDL.DIR}" prefix="WEB-INF" includes="wsdl"/>
			<webinf dir="${basedir}/src/wsdl" includes="${WSDL.FILE}" prefix="WEB-INF/wsdl"/>
			<webinf dir="${DESCRIPTORS.DIR}" includes="webservices.xml"/>
			<webinf dir="${CONFIG.DIR}" includes="mapping.xml"/>
			<classes dir="${BIN.DIR}" includes="**/*.class" defaultexcludes="no"/>
		</war>
		<delete file="${SRC-PATH}/${WSDL.FILE}"/>
		<copy file="${WAR.OUT.DIR}/${WAR.FILE}" todir="${JBOSS-DEPLOY-DIR}" overwrite="true"/>
	</target>

</project>