Yes, it will be something about I have thought for couple of months According me I wonder that developers use manual copying to maintain developer / production environment.

Correct way is:

1. Download sources from repository
2. Set some specific variables / properties in one/few files.
2. Run some scripts to set up developer / production environment without manual copying

and viola

Sorry for the latency; I hadn’t seen this latest post of yours.

Yes, any and all contribution (especially documentation) is welcome and appreciated.

The components to make the Maven “deploy” Mojo should be mostly in place; I’ll see what can be done to couple this together. From there, maybe we’ll do a Beta1 release.

The JMX Deployment currently contains references to a filesystem URL, so it’s not quite network-enabled yet. Some enhancements on the AS side to accept a byte array and deploy that would correct this, but that’d need some more attention. On a local machine this would work as expected.

My email is andrew dot rubinger at jboss dot org.

S,
ALR

I read what you said about contribution and due to my really short time, I’m afraid I can contribute only writing a guide explaining how to use your plugin to make deployment, ear packing, POM inheritance and profile configuration for Maven.
We could use a real project like one of yours. I think the article/guide could evolve to help developers to create a culture for version control and configuration management with Maven.
I already started that guide, I have web a page with some material already posted.
If this kind of contribution is of any interest, please let me know about any ideas you may want to see in this guide.
BTW, I would really appreciate if you can give me any tips on how to use your plugin for deployment on JBoss. Last time I wrote you my projects were not connected, now I’m testing POM inheritance in order to pack an ear. Just after that, I’m going to need the deployment config.
Can you tell me if there is another plugin capable of making network-through deployment, such as the JMX like yours do?
I apologize myself for any English syntax or concordance mistakes I may have run into. English is not my first language.
Thanks for your reply and help.
PS: Can you send me an e-mail? I couldn’t find yours in this page.

Though I haven’t had the time yet to address the deploy Mojo for the plugin, it’s a pretty trivial task that I’d be happy to walk you through if you’d like to contribute.

We haven’t yet done a release of the Plugin (more pressing issues), but the ones in place work pretty reliably for development purposes.

Feel free to email me.

S,
ALR

I read about your plugin and I would like to know how it would be possible to make the deployment of an exploded EAR.
First, let me try to give an overview of my project’s reality. My project has some jar modules and 1 war module that we are packing into an exploded war. We are actually, achieving this goal through an ant script but all my modules already have their own POM.xml that are being used more like a library artifact than a way to use Maven as a tool for packing and deploy to our JBossAS.
The projects are not connect with a parent POM of any sort.
I would like to know if we can accomplish this goal and if possible, can you provide us the POMs’ entries for that?
I knew about your work thanks to Edson Tirelli [etirelli@redhat.com] he may have sent you an e-mail with a simple JBoss deploy problem in a company Redhat is giving some trainning.
Thanks in advance for your help

Somehow addressing Cargo never made it from my outline to this draft when I went to press. Whoopsie.

Cargo is an awesome project on many levels. I dig its mission and I dig its implementation. It’s modular, can be invoked programmatically, via Ant, Maven, etc, and supports many containers.

The reason this didn’t fit the bill for me was its support for JBossAS specifically, and I just couldn’t get the server configurations in line with my requirements for the EJB3 TestSuite setup. So I instead decided to take advantage of some code that JBoss QA had already written and write some layers on top of it. When all’s said and done, I’d like to do a gap analysis between the JBossAS Control Plugin and Cargo, and port things over or get ‘em upstream / consolidate as appropriate.

So the two do indeed have overlapping features at the moment. Going to press forward and see where the strengths of each lie.

S,
ALR

“How are you going to address the plethora of xml-files that one would like to tune for configuring the server?”

The eeeeasy way. By letting you copy/overwrite/delete ‘em in their entirety. Not adding any intelligent management here, just a mechanism to write bytes.

“Are you interested in some real world requirements for adjustments that need to be made for a productive JBoss server?”

If you’ve got some I haven’t addressed, absolutely.

S,
ALR

Are you interested in some real world requirements for adjustments that need to be made for a productive JBoss server?