Deploying Maven project to JBoss AS7 (standalone) - maven

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).

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how to hot deploy jsp file using tomcat7-maven-plugin?

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

Can't find my Staging Repository

I am a newbie trying to deploy artifacts to maven central for the first time. I followed the directions to configure maven to deploy to a staging repository. The maven build reports success. When I go to look for my staging repository, I don't see it. When I search for my artifact by searching for "markgrand" the artifact is found.
The group ID is com.markgrand, so I am expecting to see a staging repository with a names that begins with "commarkgrand-", but there is none. What am I doing wrong?
It's been awhile, so I do not remember the exact detail. The problem was that I had told the maven plugin to do too much. I think i had a step in there to close the thing, which made it no longer a candidate for deployment. Here is the staging plugin XML that is working for me:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.sonatype.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>nexus-staging-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.6.8</version>
<extensions>true</extensions>
<configuration>
<serverId>ossrh</serverId>
<nexusUrl>https://oss.sonatype.org/</nexusUrl>
</configuration>
</plugin>

mvn clean tomcat:run command

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.

How to auto-deploy EJB jar with TomEE maven plugin

I have a stateless EJB SOAP Web Service that is packaged in jar file.
Is it possible to setup auto-deploy with Tomee maven plugin when the app consists of only one EJB jar file?
For example, this site indicates that a web context defined in server.xml is required. My synch setup is same as the site suggests.
mvn compile
command does nothing but compile the sources as it normally does.
Is there a possibility to setup something like this with EJB jar or is a WAR package needed in any case?
Thanks.
UPDATE
In order to get the TomEE Maven plugin to work at all with jar files, I added the following in pom.xml configuration section
<apps>
<app>my.group:my-ejb-app:1.0:jar</app>
</apps>
We use the maven tomcat7 plugin to do exactly this. Here's the trick, because Apache TomEE is JEE6, you can deploy EJBs in wars.
So there are two ways to do what you want... One, skip the Jar packaging for your application and make your EJBs be WARs. If this doesn't sound appealing, the other way is to create a separate project that's a WAR, but pulls in your EJB jar as a dependency.
In either case, then you can then use the tomcat7 plugin to deploy your projects easily to Apache TomEE like this mvn tomcat7:deploy provided you fill out the server section of your pom correctly. Example:
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
<artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<server>crabs</server>
<url>http://crabs/manager/text</url>
<path>/${project.artifactId}</path>
<update>true</update>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
Make sure you have a user in tomcat-users.xml on the server that has the proper deployment permissions to manager-text. Also, put the server configuration into your ~/.m2/settings.xml:
...
<servers>
<server>
<id>crabs</id>
<username>deploy</username>
<password>your password</password>
</server>
...

maven cargo plugin with tomcat6

I'm trying to setup maven cargo plugin. I have the following requirements:
tomcat 6
custom server.xml
custom context.xml
log4j jar deployed to tomcat lib
install tomcat on the machine if it's not there already
tie to maven's install lifecycle phase to deploy a war and restart the container
make the deployed war be ROOT.war
I've followed the following: http://www.java-tutorial.ch/maven/maven-tomcat-deployment-using-cargo. This isn't the complete feature set I want, and even it doesn't work entirely. This is what I get:
Can't load log handler "4host-manager.org.apache.juli.FileHandler"
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: 4host-manager.org.apache.juli.FileHandler
And then when mvn install returns I do ps -ef and there's no tomcat process.
Also it copies the war to ROOT.war but the old ROOT/ directory is not replaced so the new ROOT.war doesn't actually get deployed.
For the "install tomcat if not already there" requirement, it seems like this should be absolutely straightforward, yet when I provide
<zipUrlInstaller>
<url>http://archive.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-6/v6.0.32/bin/apache-tomcat-6.0.32.zip</url>
<extractDir>/usr/local</extractDir>
</zipUrlInstaller>
and run mvn cargo:install, it throws this:
org.codehaus.cargo.container.ContainerException: Failed to get container installation home as the container has not yet been installed. Please call install() first.
Which is puzzling. It wants me to call install first, but I AM calling install.
Ideas?
Link you followed has given demo for cargo 1.0.6. Recent version available is 1.1.1 so I suggest you to use recent and there is certain changes in child tags
As described in post http://cargo.codehaus.org/Deploying+to+a+running+container. There are ceratin changes in child tags of ZipUrlInstaller.
<!--
Careful: As described in the ZipUrlInstaller documentation,
Cargo versions older than 1.1.0 accept only installDir, you therefore
need to set installDir instead of downloadDir and extractDir.
-->
Try to use maven archetype to create cargo sample project following post http://cargo.codehaus.org/Maven2+Archetypes. I suggest you to user "Single Webapp Module Archetype"
After setting up maven project, You can install tomcat 6 running mvn cargo:install -P tomcat6x command.
pom.xml snippet of "single webapp module archetype" which can be useful for you.
<profiles>
<profile>
<id>tomcat6x</id>
<build>
<pluginManagement>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.cargo</groupId>
<artifactId>cargo-maven2-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<wait>true</wait>
<container>
<containerId>tomcat6x</containerId>
<!-- download zip url -->
<zipUrlInstaller>
<url>http://archive.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-6/v6.0.32/bin/apache-tomcat-6.0.32.zip</url>
<downloadDir>${project.build.directory}/downloads</downloadDir>
<extractDir>${project.build.directory}/extracts</extractDir>
</zipUrlInstaller>
</container>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</pluginManagement>
</build>
</profile>
</profiles>
where wait parameter true will give you option to check whether server is running or not.

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