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Exploded and External Deployment in JBOSS


Recently moved my local environment and deploying Sterling Commerce 'Yantra' application on JBOSS server. I wanted to deploy application from external directory i.e. from my application ant builds directory i.e. 'c:/Sterling/Foundation/deploy' and not from /server//deploy. 

There are some very basic/simple steps, which are tough to find on web regarding deploying exploded EAR and from external location in JBOSS. 
  • Once you have created a new server for application (in my case, I am deploying an Sterling Commerce SMCFS application i.e. 'smcfs').
  • Use ANT tool to generate, EAR contents at external deployment location. Let's call it  EXTERNAL_DIR
    • If deploying in exploded mode, rename the exploded EAR application folder to add '.ear' with folder name i.e. in my case, folder name is  EXTERNAL_DIR/smcfs.ear.
    • If you are deploying a single archive EAR file, place .ear file inside EXTERNAL_DIR. 
  • Modify /server/smcfs/conf/jboss-service.xml file, to point deployment directory to an external location containing .ear
      •      attribute name="URLs"
               deploy/,file:///EXTERNAL_DIR/
            /attribute
    •  For example, 
      • attribute name="URLs"
                 deploy/,file:///c:/Sterling/Foundation/deploy/
         /attribute
         
  • Restart the application and JBOSS should deploy application from external location.
  • If you are using an ANT tool to compile your changes into exploded dir, you have to touch the top level descriptor. Updating the file works as well as it changes the timestamp. Here are the descriptors for the most common archive types: 
    • .JAR - META-INF/ejb-jar.xml
    • .WAR - WEB-INF/web.xml 
    • .EAR - META-INF/application.xml 
    • .SAR - META-INF/jboss-service.xml
Hope this will help. 

Thanks, 
Deepesh

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Unknown said…
This was extremely helpful, thank you! :)

Fred | O'Malley Hansen Communications
April 7, 2016 at 5:14 AM
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