[jboss-as7-dev] Bundling content with deployments

[Jason T. Greene]

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?


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Jason T. Greene
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