Create EAR deploy JBoss Server Hello World
If you want to create enterprise java application to run on JBoss application server with ant build file please have sample application below:
- Final project structure:
- application.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<application xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/application_5.xsd" id="Application_ID" version="5">
<display-name>EnterpriseApplication</display-name>
<module>
<web>
<web-uri>EARDeployment.war</web-uri>
<context-root>EARDeployment</context-root>
</web>
</module>
</application>- web.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" id="WebApp_ID" version="2.5">
<display-name>EARDeployment</display-name>
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file>
<welcome-file>index.htm</welcome-file>
<welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
<welcome-file>default.html</welcome-file>
<welcome-file>default.htm</welcome-file>
<welcome-file>default.jsp</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
</web-app>- index.jsp:
<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <title>Insert title here</title> </head> <body> EAR deployment test -- Hello World! </body> </html>
- build.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project name="Jboss Ear Deployment EARProject" default="all" basedir=".">
<property name="dirs.base" value="${basedir}" />
<property name="src" value="${dirs.base}/src" />
<property name="web" value="${dirs.base}/WebContent" />
<property name="classdir" value="${basedir}/build/classes" />
<property name="deploymentdescription" value="${dirs.base}/build/ear" />
<property name="dir.deploy.folder" value="C:\JavaHonk\jboss-5.1.0.GA\server\default\deploy" />
<property name="warFile" value="EARDeployment.war" />
<property name="earFile" value="EARDeployment.ear" />
<property name="earDir" value="${dirs.base}/build/ear" />
<property name="warDir" value="${dirs.base}/build/war" />
<target name="clean" description="Remove all generated files.">
<delete dir="${warDir}/WEB-INF" />
<delete dir="${warDir}/WEB-INF/classes" />
<delete file="${earDir}/${warFile}" />
<delete file="${dirs.base}/${earFile}" />
<echo message="Cleaned" />
</target>
<target name="clean_folder" description="Remove all generated files.">
<delete dir="${warDir}/WEB-INF" />
<delete dir="${warDir}/WEB-INF/classes" />
<delete file="${earDir}/${warFile}" />
<delete file="${dirs.base}/${earFile}" />
<echo message="Cleaned" />
</target>
<!-- Main target -->
<target name="all" depends="clean,buildWar,buildEar,deploy" />
<!-- Create the War File -->
<target name="buildWar">
<fileset dir="${classdir}" includes="**/*.class" />
<fileset dir="${web}" includes="web.xml" />
<fileset dir="${web}" includes="**/*.*" />
<!-- Create war file and place in ear directory -->
<jar jarfile="${earDir}/${warFile}" basedir="${web}" />
</target>
<!-- Create the Ear File -->
<target name="buildEar">
<fileset dir="${deploymentdescription}" includes="application.xml" />
<!-- Create ear file and place in ear directory -->
<jar jarfile="${dirs.base}/${earFile}" basedir="${earDir}" />
</target>
<target name="deploy">
<copy todir="${dir.deploy.folder}" overwrite="yes">
<fileset file="${dirs.base}/${earFile}" />
</copy>
<echo message="deployed" />
</target>
</project>- This is simple project where we are creating EAR file and deploy on the JBoss server (Version: 5.1.0). To create ear file: Right click build.xml –> Run As –> Ant Build you will see below output on console:
As you see above EARDeployment.ear got created inside JBoss deploy folder. Now start your JBoss server you will see below welcome page:
Download Project: EARDeployment
For more information about EAR deployment on JBoss please refer this JBoss link
