How do I deploy to G:s /var/shared/lib using maven/plan directives?

[Peter Petersson <pe...@gmail.com>]

Hi

I need to deploy a couple of jars to G:s SharedLib in a special purpose 
server assembly build.
Is it possible to do this using maven directives or a descriptor 
directive in a plan?  I guess using the maven antrun plugin could do the 
trick but is there a cleaner G:way to do it ?

Anny pointers on how to accomplish this will be greatly appreciated.

regards
  peter petersson

Re: How do I deploy to G:s /var/shared/lib using maven/plan directives?

[Peter Petersson <pe...@gmail.com>]

David Jencks wrote:
>
> On Jul 25, 2008, at 9:09 AM, Peter Petersson wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I need to deploy a couple of jars to G:s SharedLib in a special 
>> purpose server assembly build.
>> Is it possible to do this using maven directives or a descriptor 
>> directive in a plan?  I guess using the maven antrun plugin could do 
>> the trick but is there a cleaner G:way to do it ?
>>
>> Anny pointers on how to accomplish this will be greatly appreciated.
>
> I hope you can find a way to not need the shared-lib :-)
Yes I would very much like that to ;) The problem I am facing in my 
Geronimo Liferay assembly is actually how to get portlets wrapped as 
Geronimo plugins in the same class loader as the liferay jars.

The approach  I have used so far has been to put the portlet plugin in 
var/liferay/deploy (in G) which I have configured for liferay to scan 
and preprocess berfore handling it over for hot deployment into G:s 
/deploy dir (this is basically the same way the G liferay bundle is 
handling it). Geronimo is then picking up the portlet jar plugin (by hot 
deployment) and installs it as a system module in Geronimo and 
everything looks great .... until you check things out in Liferay :) 
then you will find out by looking into the "Update manager" admin tool 
that your portlet  has the status of "Installation in progress" ... 
forever ;( well at least liferay knows about the portlet.
I have played around with dependency settings in the portlets 
geronimo-web.xml file but with no luck in getting past the "Installation 
in progress" problem.

regards
  peter petersson

>
> I think you could pack the jar files inside one of your plugins and 
> use an copy-file element in the geronimo-plugin.xml to get them copied 
> into shared-lib.  You'll still have 2 copies of the jars -- the ones 
> in the original plugin won't be erased.
>
> thanks
> david jencks
>
>>
>>
>> regards
>> peter petersson
>

Re: How do I deploy to G:s /var/shared/lib using maven/plan directives?

[David Jencks <da...@yahoo.com>]

On Jul 25, 2008, at 9:09 AM, Peter Petersson wrote:

> Hi
>
> I need to deploy a couple of jars to G:s SharedLib in a special  
> purpose server assembly build.
> Is it possible to do this using maven directives or a descriptor  
> directive in a plan?  I guess using the maven antrun plugin could do  
> the trick but is there a cleaner G:way to do it ?
>
> Anny pointers on how to accomplish this will be greatly appreciated.

I hope you can find a way to not need the shared-lib :-)

I think you could pack the jar files inside one of your plugins and  
use an copy-file element in the geronimo-plugin.xml to get them copied  
into shared-lib.  You'll still have 2 copies of the jars -- the ones  
in the original plugin won't be erased.

thanks
david jencks

>
>
> regards
> peter petersson