[Building Sakai] catalina.properties and -Dsakai.app.server=tomcat7

[David Adams]

Well, there are lots of ways to handle setting properties. At VT, on our
dev and production boxes, we have a wrapper script that calls maven with
all the appropriate flags depending on what we're trying to do and which
instance we are working with, so we set a local repository, tomcat path,
and this setting via command line flags. For projects on my workstation,
I've been inspired by python's virtualenv and ruby tools like rvm and I've
worked up a small script that sets up a complete jdk/maven environment
within a given project directory for me to work from, and I specify the
appropriate local settings via the virtual environment's maven's
settings.xml file, and just source the setup file to switch into that
context. Or you could just set up an alias for mvn that adds all the flags
you want in your .bashrc or .bash_aliases file. It should also work to add
it to, say, master/pom.xml.

It really just depends on your personal needs. I'm not familiar with the
appserver.id, appserver.home, or sakai.appserver.home settings from your
settings.xml. But if you want to specify this setting in settings.xml, just
add <sakai.app.server>tomcat7</sakai.app.server> to your settings.xml
inside the <properties> block.



David Adams
Director, Systems Integration and Support
Virginia Tech Learning Technologies


On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 4:56 PM, Steve Swinsburg
<steve.swinsburg at gmail.com>wrote:

> You could, but you don't actually need settings.xml, just specify the path
> to tomcat when you build.
>
> Cheers
> S
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 28/04/2013, at 7:51, Mustansar Mehmood <mustansar at rice.edu> wrote:
>
>  Great!
>
> I wonder if we could move this information to settings.xml. I am just
> trying to revisit this file
> <settings xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"<http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0>
> xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance>
> xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0
> http://maven.apache.org/xsd/settings-1.0.0.xsd"<http://maven.apache.org/xsd/settings-1.0.0.xsd>
> >
> <profiles>
> <profile>
> <id>tomcat5x</id> <!-- I doubt if this setting plays any role in sakai -->
> <activation>
> <activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
> </activation>
> <properties>
> <appserver.id>tomcat5x</appserver.id> <!-- how is this related to <id
> >tomcat5x</id> -->
> <appserver.home>/opt/tomcat</appserver.home>
> <maven.tomcat.home>/opt/tomcat</maven.tomcat.home>
> <sakai.appserver.home>/opt/tomcat</sakai.appserver.home>
> <surefire.reportFormat>plain</surefire.reportFormat>
> <surefire.useFile>false</surefire.useFile>
> </properties>
> </profile>
> </profiles>
> </settings>
>
>  On 4/27/2013 1:50 PM, David Adams wrote:
>
> Just figured this out a couple of weeks ago and wanted to let everyone
> know, in regards to deploying 2.9+ on Tomcat 7.
>
>  If you add "-Dsakai.app.server=tomcat7" to your maven command line, the
> sakai:deploy goal will put all your jar files in the right place--namely
> tomcat/lib--and the catalina.properties hack is no longer required.
>
>  One caveat: you have to be using the sakai-2.9.x-all branch or
> equivalent, since the preconstructed assembly zip files deployed by the
> "normal" branch obviously won't respect this setting.
>
>   David Adams
> Director, Systems Integration and Support
> Virginia Tech Learning Technologies
>
>
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