# ANT ServerDeploy User Manual

by

- Christopher A. Longo (cal@cloud9.net)
- Cyrille Morvan (cmorvan@ingenosya.com)

At present the tasks support:

- Weblogic servers
- JOnAS 2.4 Open Source EJB server

Over time we expect further optional tasks to support additional J2EE Servers.

Task | Application Servers
serverdeploy | Nested Elements
generic | Generic task
jonas | JOnAS 2.4
weblogic | Weblogic

## ServerDeploy element

### Description:

The `serverdeploy` task is used to run a "hot" deployment tool for vendor-specific J2EE server. The task requires nested elements which define the attributes of the vendor-specific deployment tool being executed. Vendor-specific deployment tools elements may enforce rules for which attributes are required, depending on the tool.

### Parameters:

Attribute | Description | Required
action | This is the action to be performed. For most cases this will be "deploy". Some tools support additional actions, such as "delete", "list", "undeploy", "update"... | Yes
source | A fully qualified path/filename of the component to be deployed. This may be an .ear, .jar, .war, or any other type that is supported by the server. | Tool dependent

### Nested Elements

The serverdeploy task supports a nested `classpath` element to set the classpath.

### Vendor-specific nested elements

### Parameters used for all tools:

Attribute | Description | Required
classpath | The classpath to be passed to the JVM running the tool. The classpath may also be supplied as a nested element. | Tool dependent
server | The address or URL for the server where the component will be deployed. | Tool dependent
username | The user with privileges to deploy applications to the server. | Tool dependent
password | The password of the user with privileges to deploy applications to the server. | Tool dependent

Also supported are nested vendor-specific elements.

### Generic element

This element is provided for generic Java-based deployment tools. The generic task accepts (but does not require) nested `arg` and `jvmarg` elements. A JVM will be spawned with the provided attributes. It is recommended that a vendor-specific element be used over the generic one if at all possible.

The following attributes are supported by the generic element.

Attribute | Description | Required
classname | This is the fully qualified classname of the Java based deployment tool to execute. | Yes

### Nested Elements

The generic element supports nested `<arg>` and `<jvmarg>` elements.

### Example

This example shows the use of generic deploy element to deploy a component using a Java based deploy tool:

        <serverdeploy action="deploy" source="lib/ejb_myApp.ear">
            <generic classname="com.yamato.j2ee.tools.deploy.DeployTool"
                classpath="${classpath}"
                username="antoine"
                password="${user.password}">
                <arg value="-component=WildStar"/>
                <arg value="-force"/>
                <jvmarg value="-ms64m"/>
                <jvmarg value="-mx128m"/>
            </generic>
        </serverdeploy>

### WebLogic element

The WebLogic element contains additional attributes to run the `weblogic.deploy` deployment tool.

Valid actions for the tool are `deploy`, `undeploy`, `list`, `update`, and `delete`.

If the action is `deploy` or `update`, the `application` and `source` attributes must be set. If the action is `undeploy` or `delete`, the `application` attribute must be set. If the `username` attribute is omitted, it defaults to "system". The `password` attribute is required for all actions.

Attribute | Description | Required
application | This is the name of the application being deployed | Yes
component | This is the component string for deployment targets. It is in the form `<component>:<target1>,<target2>...` Where component is the archive name (minus the .jar, .ear, .war extension). Targets are the servers where the components will be deployed | no
debug | If set to true, additional information will be printed during the deployment process. | No

### Examples

This example shows the use of serverdeploy to deploy a component to a WebLogic server:

        <serverdeploy action="deploy" source="lib/ejb_myApp.ear">
            <weblogic application="myapp"
                server="t3://myserver:7001"
                classpath="${weblogic.home}/lib/weblogic.jar"
                username="antoine"
                password="${user.password}"
                component="ejb_foobar:myserver,productionserver"
                debug="true"/>
        </serverdeploy>

This example shows serverdeploy being used to delete a component from a WebLogic server:

        <serverdeploy action="delete" source="lib/ejb_myApp.jar"/>
            <weblogic application="myapp"
                server="t3://myserver:7001"
                classpath="${weblogic.home}/lib/weblogic.jar"
                username="antoine"
                password="${user.password}"/>
        </serverdeploy>

### JOnAS (Java Open Application Server) element

The JOnAS element contains additional attributes to run the `JonasAdmin` deployment tool.

Valid actions for the tool are `deploy`, `undeploy`, `list` and `update`.

You can't use `user` and `password` property with this task.

Attribute | Description | Required
jonasroot | The root directory for JOnAS. | Yes
orb | Choose your ORB : RMI, JEREMIE, DAVID, ... If omitted, it defaults to the one present in classpath. The corresponding JOnAS JAR is automatically added to the classpath. If your orb is DAVID (RMI/IIOP) you must specify davidhost and davidport properties. | No
davidhost | The value for the system property : `david.CosNaming.default_host` . | No
davidport | The value for the system property : `david.CosNaming.default_port` . | No
classname | This is the fully qualified classname of the Java based deployment tool to execute. Default to `org.objectweb.jonas.adm.JonasAdmin` | No

### Nested Elements

The jonas element supports nested `<arg>` and `<jvmarg>` elements.

### Examples

This example shows the use of serverdeploy to deploy a component to a JOnAS server:

        <serverdeploy action="deploy" source="lib/ejb_myApp.jar">
            <jonas server="MyJOnAS" jonasroot="${jonas.root}">

               <classpath>
                   <pathelement path="${jonas.root}/lib/RMI_jonas.jar"/>
                   <pathelement path="${jonas.root}/config/"/>
               </classpath>
            </jonas>
        </serverdeploy>

This example shows serverdeploy being used to list the components from a JOnAS server and a WebLogic server:

        <serverdeploy action="list"/>
            <jonas jonasroot="${jonas.root}" orb="JEREMIE"/>
            <weblogic application="myapp"
                server="t3://myserver:7001"
                classpath="${weblogic.home}/lib/weblogic.jar"
                username="antoine"
                password="${user.password}"/>
        </serverdeploy>