Geronimo 3.0: Deploying a simple Aries application

[Jarek Gawor <jg...@gmail.com>]

Hey,

In the last day or two I worked on a deployer for Aries applications.
It's a really basic deployer that allows you to deploy simple Aries
applications. In case you are interested, here's what you need to do
to deploy a simple Aries app to Geronimo:

1) Build Geronimo assembly with aries-deployer plugin. You might have
to build the "application" module in trunk in Apache Aries project
first.

2) Start Geronimo

3) In a separate shell, use the deploy command to deploy a sample
Aries app. The attached sample application is based on the Aries hello
world blueprint sample. To deploy execute something like:

./bin/deploy --user system --password manager deploy
org.apache.aries.blueprint.helloworld.app-1.0.0-incubating-SNAPSHOT.jar

The deployer should fail with "Unable to cache bundle:
mvn:aries-app/org.apache.aries.blueprint.helloworld.app/1.0.0/jar
error in opening zip file" type of error. That's to be expected at
this time and can be ignored for now.

4) In the Geronimo console you should see the following output:

======>>> Starting HelloWorld Server
========>>>>Client HelloWorld: About to execute a method from the
Hello World service
======>>> A message from the server: Hello World!
========>>>>Client HelloWorld: ... if you didn't just see a Hello
World message something went wrong

and if you issue "list" command in the Geronimo shell you should see
the following 4 bundles installed:

[  96] [Active     ] [            ] [   60]
aries-app.org.apache.aries.blueprint.helloworld.app-DEPLOYMENT
(0.0.0.0)
[  97] [Active     ] [            ] [   60] Apache Aries Blueprint
HelloWorld Api (1.0.0.incubating-SNAPSHOT)
[  98] [Active     ] [Created     ] [   60] Apache Aries Blueprint
HelloWorldClient (1.0.0.incubating-SNAPSHOT)
[  99] [Active     ] [Created     ] [   60] Apache Aries Blueprint
HelloWorldServer (1.0.0.incubating-SNAPSHOT)

Jarek