[wildfly-dev] Deploying JDBC driver to WildFly

[Stuart Douglas]

I have often though that it would be good to have support in 
jboss-modules for directory based resource root (i.e. include all jars 
in a directory).

That way we could include a pre-configured module directory that the 
user can just dump their drivers in, and we could also include a 
pre-configured global module, to make it easy for a user to expose a 
library to every deployed application.

Stuart

Arun Gupta wrote:
> Including Adam in the loop and here is what he had to say:
>
> -- cut here --
> I tried to install either DerbyDB or HSQLDB and they did not had the
> META-INF/services/java.sql.Driver file. In such case you will have to
> re-create the jar with the property file.
>
> I would expect to just make the JARs available in the CLASSPATH as it
> is the case in all other application servers,
> -- cut here --
>
> Suggestions ?
>
> Arun
>
> On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 1:31 PM, Brian Stansberry
> <brian.stansberry at redhat.com>  wrote:
>> You can deploy the driver as a jar, just like a war, ear etc. Then use
>> the deployment name in the driver element of the datasource config.
>>
>> https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/WFLY9/DataSource+configuration
>>
>> This old wiki article is pretty good too:
>>
>> https://developer.jboss.org/wiki/DataSourceConfigurationInAS7
>>
>> On 10/7/14, 2:50 PM, Arun Gupta wrote:
>>> I was talking to Adam Bien and he is an avid supporter of WildFly and
>>> using it in all his projects now. One of his pet peeves is deployment
>>> of JDBC driver.
>>>
>>> He can either bundle it in WEB-INF/lib but prefer to deploy it on the
>>> application server itself. Currently he deploys it as a JBoss module
>>> but prefer it to be rather simplistic. His suggestion was to define a
>>> directory like "standalone/lib/jdbc" and any JAR files copied there
>>> should be automatically deployed as module.
>>>
>>> What is the recommended way to deploy a JDBC driver to WildFly ?
>>>
>>> Does it necessarily have to be deployed as JBoss module ? If yes, how
>>> can this be simplified ?
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Arun
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Brian Stansberry
>> Senior Principal Software Engineer
>> JBoss by Red Hat
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