Re: [jboss-as7-dev] Bundling content with deployments

So we finally found the use case for copy content. It sounds all good to me. On 6/2/11 3:22 PM, David M. Lloyd wrote: > I was chatting with Ales about his issues trying to incorporate a > seam-int module into a deployment, such that every deployment (which > bundles seam) would get a copy of those classes added to it. > > So I thought I'd cover some options for a general approach to solving > this issue. > > First, it is important to note that such content should NOT be made into > a static module. Modules are only for JARs which only have a single > instance in the app server. > > I think a good possible approach would be to define a resource root in a > (different) module which contains the JAR file itself as an opaque > resource, and then reference that resource when constructing the deployer. > > In this example I'll have a fictional module called > "org.jboss.ales.deployer". > > The module.xml for this module should look something like this: > > <module xmlns="urn:jboss:module:1.0" name="org.jboss.ales.deployer"> > > <resources> > <resource-root path="bundled"/> > <!-- Insert resources here --> > </resources> > > <dependencies> > <module name="org.jboss.as.controller"/> > <module name="org.jboss.as.server"/> > ...other modules here... > </dependencies> > </module> > > Then we deposit the nested seam-int JAR into the "bundled" subdirectory > of our module through some sort of build.xml modification, taking care > to use a predictable name for the JAR (as opposed to the long Maven name). > > Having done this, code from the org.jboss.ales.deployer module can now > reliably acquire this file path: > > File jarFile = new File(getClass().getResource("/seam-int.jar").toURI()); > > The File can then make its way to the deployment as a resource root, > thus creating a copy of the content in each deployment which our > deployer wishes to add it to. > > Questions/comments? -- Jason T. Greene JBoss, a division of Red Hat _______________________________________________ jboss-as7-dev mailing list jboss-as7-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/jboss-as7-dev