I have a Tomcat 7 server running on Jelastic. I'm using the Jelastic Eclipse Plugin to Deploy my projects, and all is good. However, I have more than one application deployed (in /webapps) on the Tomcat server and noticed that when I Deploy one project from Eclipse, the server restarts, thus restarting my unchanged application as well.
I had modified the server.xml to autoDeploy="false", but since it seems to be restarting the server, that wouldn't make any difference.
Is there some setting that would prevent this, or is it just the behavior of the plugin?
This is а regular deployment procedure and there is no way to prevent it if you use Eclipse Plugin for deploying.
But you can deploy your project without the node restarting. There are two ways:
Upload yourproject.war into the webapps folder using Jelastic's DashBoard file manager:
Disable the restarting after projects deploying.
Note: this option requires the administrative rights and you should contact your hoster to disable it.
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I've recently switched from Eclipse to IntelliJ Ultimate and have a question regarding locally testing a Tomcat app from within the IDE.
I have a /META-INF/context.xml file that needs to be deployed with the WAR when it is deployed on our remote Tomcat servers, but because of the way it is setup, this file cannot be used when testing locally.
To handle this in Eclipse, there is a "Servers" project where you can set Tomcat configuration like context.xml, server.xml, catalina.properties, etc. that is ONLY used when running the app from within Eclipse.
I didn't see anything similar to this in IntelliJ. Basically what I need is the capability to use a custom context.xml when running locally in the IDE and a different context.xml when deploying to the real remote servers.
I have a feeling this should be handled in the Tomcat Run Configuration within IntelliJ, but didn't see anything obvious in there.
Thanks!
I install WebSphere Developer tools for Eclipse and refer to my local WebSphere 7 installation. Then deploy a Spring application within an EAR project. However, when I deploy the EAR project into WebSphere server instance in Eclipse, I find no options/UI to assign external library or assign role/user mapping etc, just like what I can do in WebSphere console.
When log on WebSphere console I do see the project setting but cannot save the change.
So is there anyway to configure on the UI or I have to make every change in an WebSphere XML configuration file?
In Eclipse, I find no options/UI to assign external library or assign role/user mapping etc
Yes, you have to do it via console.
When log on WebSphere console I do see the project setting but cannot save the change.
Thats the common problem. Open the Server configuration and uncheck Minimize application files copied to the server. Restart server, undeploy and redeploy application. You should be able to save mappings.
If this doesn't help (helps in most cases but not for some settings and I don't remember for which), then in the Publishing options, switch to Run server with resources on Server, this will work for sure, but deployment will be a bit longer. Of course restart and redeploy app.
You will see the missing OK buttons in the admin console then.
When I start the glassfish server I have noted that it loads all the previous projects that i have developed and previously deployed.
I think that somewhere there is a config file that tells the server to reload the projects, but if i would like to work just on one of them what i have to do?
i suppose that i have to change or delete some entry in a glassfish configuration file, but i don't know where it is and how to do that.
thanks
Massimo
You have different options.
You can go to the Glassfish admin GUI via http://localhost:4848 and look under "Applications". You can undeploy properly deployed applications there.
If this is not working you can manually delete the applications from the glassfish folder: Look at
/[glassfish_installation_path]/glassfish/domains/[your_domain]/applications
or
/[glassfish_installation_path]/glassfish/domains/[your_domain]/autodeploy
Glassfish is running applications in these folders at startup time.
The undeployment depends somehow on the method you used to deploy the applications...if you used NetBeans to deploy you can probably even select the application in NetBeans and click "Clean and build" do undeploy it.
I was wondering if it is possible to make a Java EE application being managed by Maven and automatically deploy it to JBoss all from Eclipse. To my knowledge I current right click on my project and select "Make install". After that completes, I open the server pane and right click on my deployed ear and either select "Full Publish" or "Incremental Publish". Is there a way to condense these actions into one click? I tried to write a windows batch file but I didn't have much luck with that, and it would only work for our devs working on Windows machines. I know I can make run configurations but when I try to make one it is very intimidating and I get frustrated and give up.
Thanks for your help!
You can use JBoss Tools 3.3.0 (Current milestone M4) with the maven integration to easily deploy projects (wars or ears) to your AS7 server.
Once you defined your AS7 instance in eclipse, all you have to do is right click on your project > Run As ...> Run on Server. It'll start your app server if it's stopped, or just deploy your app if it's already running.
See http://vimeo.com/25768303
and http://community.jboss.org/en/tools/blog/2011/11/09/jboss-tools-shift-happens-in-m4
If you are using maven, you can use the cargo plugin: http://cargo.codehaus.org/Maven2+plugin
You just configure where the JBoss is installed, set the plugin to run in the phase you want (or make a new one) and you are all set.
You can also create different configurations for different profiles, so you have local, integration, test, production, etc... And just by running with the selected profile deploys the ear in the server, remote or local.
If you want more control, you can set the path of the container as a variable that you pass in the Eclipse run configuration, that way each developer can have their servers in different paths.
I am very new to Tomcat and web development in general and apologize for what may be a very silly question.
Consider 2 situations:
1.
I start Tomcat outside of Eclipse.
I use eclipse to create a war file.
I deploy it via admin console.
All is ok
2.
I start Tomcat via Eclipse
I can't access admin console
http://localhost:8080/manager/html greets me with 404 error
Same page is behaving properly when Tomcat is started outside of Eclipse
Please advise
Why might the issue be?
Why might the issue be?
You need to configure Eclipse to take control of your Tomcat installation. To do so:
double click on the Tomcat Server in the Servers view
under Server Locations, select Use Tomcat installation
This is illustrated on the screenshot below:
Eclipse creates a new Tomcat configuration separate to your Tomcat installation, in the 'Servers' project. This allows Eclipse to deploy webapps without interfering with anything you've done in your installation (via the manager app or by editing config files manually).
You can reconfigure Eclipse so that it uses the config from your Tomcat installation (see Pascal's answer), or to re-enable the manager app - but read the WTP Tomcat FAQ first as there are good reasons for it working the way it does. I don't recall ever needing to do this - the 'Servers' tab in Eclipse lets you deploy/start/stop/debug/configure apps as required.