I use tomcat7 with the tomcat-maven plugin. I am able to make it hotswap my jsp but it only work if I modify it directly in the target. How can I make tomcat also look for changes in my sources directory?
pom.xml
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
<artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.2</version>
<configuration>
<serverXml>${project.build.directory}/config/tomcat-config/${usingDb}/server.xml</serverXml>
<tomcatUsers>${project.build.directory}/config/tomcat-config/tomcat-users.xml</tomcatUsers>
<configurationDir>${project.build.directory}/config/tomcat-config</configurationDir>
<additionalClassesDirs>
<classesDir>${project.basedir}/src/main/webapp</classesDir>
</additionalClassesDirs>
<contextReloadable>true</contextReloadable>
<port>${tomcat.http.local.port}</port>
<path>/${url.contextPath}</path>
</configuration>
</plugin>
This depends on how you use/start the maven plugin.
Starting it with
mvn tomcat7:run
should do the trick (in comparison to run-war or any other goal). See details at http://tomcat.apache.org/maven-plugin-2.2/tomcat7-maven-plugin/plugin-info.html
This will actually reload the context in your tomcat. I'm not sure actual "Hot replacement" without reloading the context is possible without third party libraries/plugins like jrebel or similar.
You should be able to run the war:exploded maven goal to get your changes copied from your sources directory to the target directory.
Change your workspace in Eclipse to \tomcat\webapps Since it is just for your work, this should work fine. Whatever changes you make in Eclipse is in the same directory tomcat looks for applications to deploy
Related
When I run "mvn clean tomcat:run" (without specifying any tomcat version) command from command prompt for running my web application, it download tomcat 6.0.29 version dependency as shown below:
org/apache/tomcat/juli/6.0.29/juli-6.0.29.pom
org/apache/tomcat/annotations-api/6.0.29/annotations-api-6.0.29.pom
org/apache/tomcat/catalina-ha/6.0.29/catalina-ha-6.0.29.pom
org/apache/tomcat/coyote/6.0.29/coyote-6.0.29.pom
org/apache/tomcat/tribes/6.0.29/tribes-6.0.29.pom
org/apache/tomcat/jasper-el/6.0.29/jasper-el-6.0.29.pom
org/apache/tomcat/dbcp/6.0.29/dbcp-6.0.29.pom
pom.xml file of the application does not contain any tomcat version it require to run
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.0.2</version>
<configuration>
<source>1.6</source>
<target>1.6</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
<finalName>esa</finalName>
</build>
So my query is how does it decide to download particular this tomcat version dependency.
Probably the default settings of the tomcat plugin you run.
Try running mvn tomcat:help -Ddetails to see what version of the plugin you use, and how it can be configured.
I think it is an earlier version of the plugin, and you can now use explicit versions, such as
mvn org.apache.tomcat.maven:tomcat6-maven-plugin:2.0:run
mvn org.apache.tomcat.maven:tomcat7-maven-plugin:2.0:run
(or the shorter form)
Seems, you are running the tomcat-maven-plugin from codehaus, whihc has tomcat 6.0.29 built-in. (Seems there was no activity since 2010.)
You should try the tomcat7 plugin from apache.
Regards
Tibor
In command line for maven use --debug option to get explanation of build process. For our case output looks like:
...[DEBUG] Resolving plugin prefix tomcat from [org.apache.maven.plugins, org.codehaus.mojo]
...
[DEBUG] Resolved plugin version for org.codehaus.mojo:tomcat-maven-plugin to 1.1 from repository central (http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2, releases)...
Actually to explain why we've got tomcat v1.1 without specifying anything about tomcat, remember that maven build process has been customized with build plugins. And each build plugins has own build plugins. So it is enough to examine effective pom file to get clear understanding that almost empty initial pom.xml has quite big effective pom.xml.
To overcome issue just use explicit version of the tomcat plugin.
I have simple java web application. web application has some js, css, html files. when I change js files, i am not able to view new changes in browser. For new changes i have to perform "mvn clean install" command then only i am able to see new changes. So Is there any way to see changes without performing this command ?
thanks.
it's not recommended to perform "mvn clean install" unless you want to use your code into another project.
That's what I do when I want to publish code change into a webserver for debug purposes
1/ I configure tomcat7-maven-plugin into the parent pom project:
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
<artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.2</version>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
2/ then
mvn tomcat7:run
will launch an embded tomcat7 server with your resources deployed.
to publish your code to a remote tomcat, you can use
tomcat7:deploy
after having configured tomcat7 plugin correctly
alternatively, import your maven project as an eclipse project (plugin name: m2e) then right click on the projet, debug on server will launch the eclipse configured tomcat.
whenever you save a resource, it will be automagically deployed on the eclipse-managed tomcat.
My Maven project has a bunch of subprojects like this:
proj/
projEAR/
projCommon/
How can I compile and build the EAR project + deploy it to my web server at the same time?
The way I do it now is:
proj$ mvn clean install
[... builds everything ... ]
proj$ cd projEAR
projEAR$ mvn weblogic:deploy
[... deploys the EAR file ... ]
I'd like to do this with one command. Something like
proj$ mvn clean install projEAR/pom.xml weblogic:deploy
This fails of course, but I hope you get the idea...
Update:
The reason for all this is that jenkins only accepts one pom-file and command. So the problem is really how to configure Jenkins to run Maven twice.
How about the weblogic-deployer-plugin of Jenkins. It will deploy your ear file to a weblogic instance. See WebLogic Deployer Plugin.
Quick and easy workaround
As a workaround, I can advise you to use some Jenkin's Plugins, like "M2 Extra Steps". It allow you to perform extra actions pre or post one. They are often use after a build to perform stuff like generating doc, or deploying something.
I know this is working well ... because I often use this trick :)
Suggestion, never tried
At this moment, I don't have a straight answer. I don't really know how to do it in only one maven command. What I would try is to attach weblogic deploy phase to install.
ear submodule --> pom.xml
<build>
[...]
<plugins>
[...]
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>weblogic-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.9.1</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<configuration>
[...]
</configuration>
<goals>
<goal>install</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
[...]
<plugins>
[...]
<build>
It should work, but once again, I never tried it.
Don't hesitate to give feed back
I couldn't get it to work with Maven. But the way I solved it (in Jenkins) was
Create a pre-build step in Jenkins with the command mvn clean install using the parent pom: proj/pom.xml
Configure the main build as weblogic:deploy using projEAR/pom.xml.
This results in two commands being run: First mvn clean install followed by mvn weblogic:deploy.
I have a Jenkins build which builds a maven project with -PmyProfile clean package. This works fine. Now I want the project be deployable but in a separate task (JBoss deployment) so it can be triggered explicitly via the jenkins GUI. For that, I have the following in my pom:
<profiles>
<profile>
<id>myProfile</id>
<properties>...</properties>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.jboss.as.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>jboss-as-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>7.0.0.Final</version>
<configuration>
<hostname>localhost</hostname>
<port>29999</port>
<username>admin</username>
<password>admin</password>
<filename>${project.build.finalName}.war</filename>
<name>my-webapp</name>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</profile>
</profiles>
Now I only want to call that single deployment via mvn jboss-as:deploy separately. But how would I do that? If I create a second Jenkins project, everything needs to be built again, so that's pretty stupid. Building as a separate module does not work, either (some error with "building single modules not supported for maven 3").
Any ideas?
Thanks
It sucks a little, but you can always get stuff from another Jenkins workspace by using filesystem relative path like ../../SecondJob/workspace (or use symlink). I used to do this for the same case (deploying as separate job) for all my projects and it works, it's just not elegant, but I believe there's no built-in solution in Jenkins for that.
Alternatively, it seems there's Jenkins plugin for that, but I haven't used it and can't tell anything about it.
Possible trick:
Have only one project, but parameterize it with DEPLOY parameter set to FALSE by default. The build will contain your main build as well as an Invoke top-level Maven targets post-build step for deployment. The deployment step will be invoked only if DEPLOY is TRUE. To do that you use Conditional Build Step plugin.
There is a new deploy-only goal added in version 7.5.Final. You can grab the war from the first job with Copy Artifact Plugin.
References:
https://docs.jboss.org/jbossas/7/plugins/maven/latest/deploy-only-mojo.html
https://github.com/jbossas/jboss-as-maven-plugin/pull/56/commits
I am new to JBOSS AS7, and am strictly using MAVEN 3 via command line. I would like to deploy the *.war of my project to JBOSS AS7 without ECLIPSE. I have spent couple of days Googling and trying out difference approaches. I am able to deploy the *.war to Tomcat. I would highly appreciate any help on this. So far this is what I have done:
I have entered the server info(Jboss) to C:\maven\conf\settings.xml
I have included the plugin to the POM
I think I may be declaring the path to JBoss AS7 within my JBOSS plugin wrong.
This is how I am including the plugin in the POM file:
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.jboss.as.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>jboss-as-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>7.0.2.Final</version>
<configuration>
<url>http://localhost:8080/
<server>jboss</server>
<path>/web-app</path>
<configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
Did you have a look at the README on the corresponding GitHub page:
https://github.com/jbossas/jboss-as-maven-plugin
When deploying to your localhost (which is the default value) you don't need to define the <url> in the <configuration>, as well as the <server> and <path> elements (besides: I haven't seen a folder named wep-app in AS7).
We run a project where this works even without touching the settings.xml.
So when you have checked this, post what exactly goes wrong, what is the concrete failure message and what is the maven command you use (mvn jboss-as:deploy).