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Ant provides a number of optional tasks for developing Enterprise Java Beans (EJBs). In general these tasks are specific to the particular vendor's EJB Server.
At present the tasks support:
Task | Application Servers | |
blgenclient | Borland Application Server 4.5 and 5.x | |
ddcreator | Weblogic 4.5.1 | |
ejbc | Weblogic 4.5.1 | |
iplanet-ejbc | iPlanet Application Server 6.0 | |
ejbjar | Nested Elements | |
borland | Borland Application Server 4.5 and 5.x | |
iPlanet | iPlanet Application Server 6.0 | |
jboss | JBoss | |
jonas | JOnAS 2.4.x and 2.5 | |
weblogic | Weblogic 5.1 to 7.0 | |
websphere | IBM WebSphere 4.0 | |
wlrun | Weblogic 4.5.1 to 7.0 | |
wlstop | Weblogic 4.5.1 to 7.0 |
ddcreator will compile a set of Weblogic text-based deployment descriptors into a serialized EJB deployment descriptor. The selection of which of the text-based descriptors are to be compiled is based on the standard Ant include and exclude selection mechanisms.
Attribute | Description | Required |
descriptors | This is the base directory from which descriptors are selected. | Yes |
dest | The directory where the serialized deployment descriptors will be written | Yes |
classpath | This is the classpath to use to run the underlying weblogic ddcreator tool.
This must include the weblogic.ejb.utils.DDCreator class |
No |
<ddcreator descriptors="${dd.dir}" dest="${gen.classes}" classpath="${descriptorbuild.classpath}"> <include name="*.txt"/> </ddcreator>
The ejbc task will run Weblogic's ejbc tool. This tool will take a serialized deployment descriptor, examine the various EJB interfaces and bean classes and then generate the required support classes necessary to deploy the bean in a Weblogic EJB container. This will include the RMI stubs and skeletons as well as the classes which implement the bean's home and remote interfaces.
The ant task which runs this tool is able to compile several beans in a single operation. The beans to be
compiled are selected by including their serialized deployment descriptors. The standard ant
include
and exclude
constructs can be used to select the deployment descriptors
to be included.
Each descriptor is examined to determine whether the generated classes are out of date and need to be regenerated. The deployment descriptor is de-serialized to discover the home, remote and implementation classes. The corresponding source files are determined and checked to see their modification times. These times and the modification time of the serialized descriptor itself are compared with the modification time of the generated classes. If the generated classes are not present or are out of date, the ejbc tool is run to generate new versions.
Attribute | Description | Required |
descriptors | This is the base directory from which the serialized deployment descriptors are selected. | Yes |
dest | The base directory where the generated classes, RIM stubs and RMI skeletons are written | Yes |
manifest | The name of a manifest file to be written. This manifest will contain an entry for each EJB processed | Yes |
src | The base directory of the source tree containing the source files of the home interface, remote interface and bean implementation classes. | Yes |
classpath | This classpath must include both the weblogic.ejbc class and the
class files of the bean, home interface, remote interface, etc of the bean being
processed. |
No |
keepgenerated | Controls whether ejbc will keep the intermediate Java files used to build the class files. This can be useful when debugging. | No, defaults to false. |
<ejbc descriptors="${gen.classes}" src="${src.dir}" dest="${gen.classes}" manifest="${build.manifest}" classpath="${descriptorbuild.classpath}"> <include name="*.ser"/> </ejbc>
For each EJB specified, the task will locate the three classes that comprise the EJB in the destination directory. If these class files cannot be located in the destination directory, the task will fail. The task will also attempt to locate the EJB stubs and skeletons in this directory. If found, the timestamps on the stubs and skeletons will be checked to ensure they are up to date. Only if these files cannot be found or if they are out of date will the iAS ejbc utility be called to generate new stubs and skeletons.
Attribute | Description | Required |
ejbdescriptor | Standard EJB 1.1 XML descriptor (typically titled "ejb-jar.xml"). | Yes |
iasdescriptor | iAS-specific EJB XML descriptor (typically titled "ias-ejb-jar.xml"). | Yes |
dest | The is the base directory where the RMI stubs and skeletons are written. In addition, the class files for each bean (home interface, remote interface, and EJB implementation) must be found in this directory. | Yes |
classpath | The classpath used when generating EJB stubs and skeletons. If omitted, the classpath specified when Ant was started will be used. Nested "classpath" elements may also be used. | No |
keepgenerated | Indicates whether or not the Java source files which are generated by ejbc will be saved or automatically deleted. If "yes", the source files will be retained. If omitted, it defaults to "no". | No |
debug | Indicates whether or not the ejbc utility should log additional debugging statements to the standard output. If "yes", the additional debugging statements will be generated. If omitted, it defaults to "no". |
|
iashome | May be used to specify the "home" directory for this iAS installation. This is used to find the ejbc utility if it isn't included in the user's system path. If specified, it should refer to the "[install-location]/iplanet/ias6/ias" directory. If omitted, the ejbc utility must be on the user's system path. | No |
<iplanet-ejbc ejbdescriptor="ejb-jar.xml" iasdescriptor="ias-ejb-jar.xml" dest="${build.classesdir}" classpath="${ias.ejbc.cpath}"/> <iplanet-ejbc ejbdescriptor="ejb-jar.xml" iasdescriptor="ias-ejb-jar.xml" dest="${build.classesdir}" keepgenerated="yes" debug="yes" iashome="${ias.home}"> <classpath> <pathelement path="."/> <pathelement path="${build.classpath}"/> </classpath> </iplanet-ejbc>
The wlrun
task is used to start a weblogic server. The task runs
a weblogic instance in a separate Java Virtual Machine. A number of parameters
are used to control the operation of the weblogic instance. Note that the task,
and hence ant, will not complete until the weblogic instance is stopped.
Attribute | Description | Required for 4.5.1 and 5.1 | Required for 6.0 |
BEA Home | The location of the BEA Home where the server's config is defined. If this attribute is present, wlrun assumes that the server will be running under Weblogic 6.0 | N/A | Yes |
home | The location of the weblogic home that is to be used. This is the location where weblogic is installed. | Yes | Yes. Note this is the absolute location, not relative to BEA home. |
Domain | The domain to which the server belongs. | N/A | Yes |
classpath | The classpath to be used with the Java Virtual Machine that runs the Weblogic Server. Prior to Weblogic 6.0, this is typically set to the Weblogic boot classpath. Under Weblogic 6.0 this should include all the weblogic jars | Yes | Yes |
wlclasspath | The weblogic classpath used by the Weblogic Server. | No | N/A |
properties | The name of the server's properties file within the weblogic home directory used to control the weblogic instance. | Yes | N/A |
name | The name of the weblogic server within the weblogic home which is to be run. This defaults to "myserver" | No | No |
policy | The name of the security policy file within the weblogic home directory that
is to be used. If not specified, the default policy file weblogic.policy
is used. |
No | No |
username | The management username used to manage the server | N/A | No |
password | The server's management password | N/A | Yes |
pkPassword | The private key password so the server can decrypt the SSL private key file | N/A | No |
jvmargs | Additional argument string passed to the Java Virtual Machine used to run the Weblogic instance. | No | No |
weblogicMainClass | name of the main class for weblogic | No | No |
The wlrun task supports nested <classpath> and <wlclasspath> elements to set the repsective classpaths.
This example shows the use of wlrun to run a server under Weblogic 5.1
<wlrun taskname="myserver" classpath="${weblogic.boot.classpath}" wlclasspath="${weblogic.classes}:${code.jars}" name="myserver" home="${weblogic.home}" properties="myserver/myserver.properties"/>
This example shows wlrun being used to run the petstore server under Weblogic 6.0
<wlrun taskname="petstore" classpath="${weblogic.classes}" name="petstoreServer" domain="petstore" home="${weblogic.home}" password="petstorePassword" beahome="${bea.home}"/>
The wlstop
task is used to stop a weblogic instance which is
currently running. To shut down an instance you must supply both a username and
a password. These will be stored in the clear in the build script used to stop
the instance. For security reasons, this task is therefore only appropriate in a
development environment.
This task works for most version of Weblogic, including 6.0. You need to specify the BEA Home to have this task work correctly under 6.0
Attribute | Description | Required |
BEAHome | This attribute selects Weblogic 6.0 shutdown. | No |
classpath | The classpath to be used with the Java Virtual Machine that runs the Weblogic Shutdown command. | Yes |
user | The username of the account which will be used to shutdown the server | Yes |
password | The password for the account specified in the user parameter. | Yes |
url | The URL which describes the port to which the server is listening for T3 connections. For example, t3://localhost:7001 | Yes |
delay | The delay in seconds after which the server will stop. This defaults to an immediate shutdown. | No |
The classpath of the wlstop task can be set by a <classpath> nested element.
This example show the shutdown for a Weblogic 6.0 server
<wlstop classpath="${weblogic.classes}" user="system" url="t3://localhost:7001" password="foobar" beahome="${bea.home}"/>
This task is designed to support building of EJB jar files (EJB 1.1 & 2.0). Support is currently provided for 'vanilla' EJB jar files - i.e. those containing only the user generated class files and the standard deployment descriptor. Nested elements provide support for vendor specific deployment tools. These currently include:
The task works as a directory scanning task, and performs an action for each deployment descriptor found. As such the includes and excludes should be set to ensure that all desired EJB descriptors are found, but no application server descriptors are found. For each descriptor found, ejbjar will parse the deployment descriptor to determine the necessary class files which implement the bean. These files are assembled along with the deployment descriptors into a well formed EJB jar file. Any support files which need to be included in the generated jar can be added with the <support> nested element. For each class included in the jar, ejbjar will scan for any super classes or super interfaces. These will be added to the generated jar.
If no nested vendor-specific deployment elements are present, the task will simply generate a generic EJB jar. Such jars are typically used as the input to vendor-specific deployment tools. For each nested deployment element, a vendor specific deployment tool is run to generate a jar file ready for deployment in that vendor's EJB container.
The jar files are only built if they are out of date. Each deployment tool element will examine its target jar file and determine if it is out of date with respect to the class files and deployment descriptors that make up the bean. If any of these files are newer than the jar file the jar will be rebuilt otherwise a message is logged that the jar file is up to date.
The task uses the jakarta-BCEL framework to extract all dependent classes. This means that, in addition to the classes that are mentioned in the deployment descriptor, any classes that these depend on are also automatically included in the jar file.
This is the default naming scheme. The name of the generated bean is derived from the
name of the deployment descriptor. For an Account bean, for example, the deployment
descriptor would be named Account-ejb-jar.xml
. Vendor specific descriptors are
located using the same naming convention. The weblogic bean, for example, would be named
Account-weblogic-ejb-jar.xml
. Under this arrangement, the deployment descriptors
can be separated from the code implementing the beans, which can be useful when the same bean code
is deployed in separate beans.
This scheme is useful when you are using one bean per EJB jar and where you may be deploying the same bean classes in different beans, with different deployment characteristics.
This naming scheme uses the <ejb-name> element from the deployment descriptor to
determine the bean name. In this situation, the descriptors normally use the generic
descriptor names, such as ejb-jar.xml
along with any associated vendor specific descriptor
names. For example, If the value of the <ejb-name> were to be given in the deployment descriptor
as follows:
<ejb-jar> <enterprise-beans> <entity> <ejb-name>Sample</ejb-name> <home>org.apache.ant.ejbsample.SampleHome</home>then the name of the generated bean would be
Sample.jar
This scheme is useful where you want to use the standard deployment descriptor names, which may be more compatible with other EJB tools. This scheme must have one bean per jar.
In this mode, the name of the generated bean jar is derived from the directory
containing the deployment descriptors. Again the deployment descriptors typically use
the standard filenames. For example, if the path to the deployment descriptor is
/home/user/dev/appserver/dd/sample
, then the generated
bean will be named sample.jar
This scheme is also useful when you want to use standard style descriptor names. It is often most useful when the descriptors are located in the same directory as the bean source code, although that is not mandatory. This scheme can handle multiple beans per jar.
The final scheme supported by the <ejbjar> task is used when you want to specify the generated bean jar name directly. In this case the name of the generated jar is specified by the "basejarname" attribute. Since all generated beans will have the same name, this task should be only used when each descriptor is in its own directory.
This scheme is most appropriate when you are using multiple beans per jar and only process a single deployment descriptor. You typically want to specify the name of the jar and not derive it from the beans in the jar.
In addition to the bean classes, ejbjar is able to ad additional classes to the generated ejbjar. These classes are typically the support classes which are used by the bean's classes or as parameters to the bean's methods.
In versions of Ant prior to 1.5, ejbjar used reflection and attempted to add the super classes and super interfaces of the bean classes. For this technique to work the bean classes had to be loaded into Ant's JVM. This was not always possible due to class dependencies.
The ejbjar task in Ant releases 1.5 and later uses the jakarta-BCEL library to analyze the bean's class files directly, rather than loading them into the JVM. This also allows ejbjar to add all of the required support classes for a bean and not just super classes.
In Ant 1.5, a new attribute, dependency
has been introduced to allow the
buildfile to control what additional classes are added to the generated jar. It takes three
possible values
none
- only the bean classes and interfaces described in the bean's
descriptor are added to the jar.super
- this is the default value and replicates the original ejbjar
behaviour where super classes and super interfaces are added to the jarfull
- In this mode all classes used by the bean's classes and interfaces
are added to the jarThe super
and full
values require the
jakarta-BCEL library
to be available. If it is not, ejbjar will drop back to the behaviour corresponding to
the value none
.
Attribute | Description | Required |
descriptordir | The base directory under which to scan for EJB deployment descriptors. If this attribute is not specified, then the deployment descriptors must be located in the directory specified by the 'srcdir' attribute. | No |
srcdir | The base directory containing the .class files that make up the bean. Included are the home- remote- pk- and implementation- classes and all classes, that these depend on. Note that this can be the same as the descriptordir if all files are in the same directory tree. | Yes |
destdir | The base directory into which generated jar files are deposited. Jar files are deposited in directories corresponding to their location within the descriptordir namespace. Note that this attribute is only used if the task is generating generic jars (i.e. no vendor-specific deployment elements have been specified). | Yes, unless vendor-specific deployment elements have been specified. |
cmpversion | Either 1.0 or 2.0 .Default is 1.0 .A CMP 2.0 implementation exists currently only for JBoss. |
No |
naming | Controls the naming convention used to name generated EJB jars. Please refer to the description above. | No |
basejarname | The base name that is used for the generated jar files. If this attribute is specified, the generic jar file name will use this value as the prefix (followed by the value specified in the 'genericjarsuffix' attribute) and the resultant ejb jar file (followed by any suffix specified in the nested element). | No |
basenameterminator | String value used to substring out a string from the name of each deployment descriptor found, which is then used to locate related deployment descriptors (e.g. the WebLogic descriptors). For example, a basename of '.' and a deployment descriptor called 'FooBean.ejb-jar.xml' would result in a basename of 'FooBean' which would then be used to find FooBean.weblogic-ejb-jar.xml and FooBean.weblogic-cmp-rdbms-jar.xml, as well as to create the filenames of the jar files as FooBean-generic.jar and FooBean-wl.jar. This attribute is not used if the 'basejarname' attribute is specified. | No, defaults to '-'. |
genericjarsuffix | String value appended to the basename of the deployment descriptor to create the filename of the generic EJB jar file. | No, defaults to '-generic.jar'. |
classpath | This classpath is used when resolving classes which are to be added to the jar. Typically nested deployment tool elements will also support a classpath which will be combined with this classpath when resolving classes | No. |
flatdestdir | Set this attribute to true if you want all generated jars to be placed in the root of the destdir, rather than according to the location of the deployment descriptor within the descriptor dir hierarchy. | No. |
dependency | This attribute controls which additional classes and interfaces are added to the jar. Please refer to the description above | No. |
In addition to the vendor specific nested elements, the ejbjar task provides three nested elements.
The <classpath> nested element allows the classpath to be set. It is useful when setting the classpath from a reference path. In all other respects the behaviour is the same as the classpath attribute.
The <dtd> element is used to specify the local location of DTDs to be used when parsing the EJB deployment descriptor. Using a local DTD is much faster than loading the DTD across the net. If you are running ejbjar behind a firewall you may not even be able to access the remote DTD. The supported vendor-specific nested elements know the location of the required DTDs within the vendor class hierarchy and, in general, this means <dtd> elements are not required. It does mean, however, that the vendor's class hierarchy must be available in the classpath when Ant is started. If your want to run Ant without requiring the vendor classes in the classpath, you would need to use a <dtd> element.
Attribute | Description | Required |
publicId | The public Id of the DTD for which the location is being provided | Yes |
location | The location of the local copy of the DTD. This can either be a file or a resource loadable from the classpath. | Yes |
The <support> nested element is used to supply additional classes (files) to be included in the generated jars. The <support> element is a FileSet, so it can either reference a fileset declared elsewhere or it can be defined in-place with the appropriate <include> and <exclude> nested elements. The files in the support fileset are added into the generated EJB jar in the same relative location as their location within the support fileset. Note that when ejbjar generates more than one jar file, the support files are added to each one.
The jboss element searches for the JBoss specific deployment descriptors and adds them to the final ejb jar file. JBoss has two deployment descriptors:
CMP version | File name |
CMP 1.0 | jaws.xml |
CMP 2.0 | jbosscmp-jdbc.xml |
Attribute | Description | Required |
destdir | The base directory into which the generated weblogic ready jar files are deposited. Jar files are deposited in directories corresponding to their location within the descriptordir namespace. | Yes |
genericjarsuffix | A generic jar is generated as an intermediate step in build the weblogic deployment jar. The suffix used to generate the generic jar file is not particularly important unless it is desired to keep the generic jar file. It should not, however, be the same as the suffix setting. | No, defaults to '-generic.jar'. |
suffix | String value appended to the basename of the deployment descriptor to create the filename of the JBoss EJB jar file. | No, defaults to '.jar'. |
keepgeneric | This controls whether the generic file used as input to ejbc is retained. | No, defaults to false |
The weblogic element is used to control the weblogic.ejbc compiler for generating weblogic EJB jars. Prior to Ant 1.3, the method of locating CMP descriptors was to use the ejbjar naming convention. So if your ejb-jar was called, Customer-ejb-jar.xml, your weblogic descriptor was called Customer- weblogic-ejb-jar.xml and your CMP descriptor had to be Customer-weblogic-cmp- rdbms-jar.xml. In addition, the <type-storage> element in the weblogic descriptor had to be set to the standard name META-INF/weblogic-cmp-rdbms- jar.xml, as that is where the CMP descriptor was mapped to in the generated jar.
There are a few problems with this scheme. It does not allow for more than one CMP descriptor to be defined in a jar and it is not compatible with the deployment descriptors generated by some tools.
In Ant 1.3, ejbjar parses the weblogic deployment descriptor to discover the CMP descriptors, which are then included automatically. This behaviour is controlled by the newCMP attribute. Note that if you move to the new method of determining CMP descriptors, you will need to update your weblogic deployment descriptor's <type-storage> element. In the above example, you would define this as META-INF/Customer-weblogic-cmp-rdbms-jar.xml.
Attribute | Description | Required |
destdir | The base directory into which the generated weblogic ready jar files are deposited. Jar files are deposited in directories corresponding to their location within the descriptordir namespace. | Yes |
genericjarsuffix | A generic jar is generated as an intermediate step in build the weblogic deployment jar. The suffix used to generate the generic jar file is not particularly important unless it is desired to keep the generic jar file. It should not, however, be the same as the suffix setting. | No, defaults to '-generic.jar'. |
suffix | String value appended to the basename of the deployment descriptor to create the filename of the WebLogic EJB jar file. | No, defaults to '.jar'. |
classpath | The classpath to be used when running the weblogic ejbc tool. Note that this tool typically requires the classes that make up the bean to be available on the classpath. Currently, however, this will cause the ejbc tool to be run in a separate VM | No |
wlclasspath | Weblogic 6.0 will give a warning if the home and remote interfaces of a bean are on the system classpath used to run weblogic.ejbc. In that case, the standard weblogic classes should be set with this attribute (or equivalent nested element) and the home and remote interfaces located with the standard classpath attribute | No |
keepgeneric | This controls whether the generic file used as input to ejbc is retained. | No, defaults to false |
compiler | This allows for the selection of a different compiler
to be used for the compilation of the generated Java
files. This could be set, for example, to Jikes to
compile with the Jikes compiler. If this is not set
and the build.compiler property is set
to jikes, the Jikes compiler will be used. If this
is not desired, the value "default "
may be given to use the default compiler |
No |
rebuild | This flag controls whether weblogic.ejbc is always invoked to build the jar file. In certain circumstances, such as when only a bean class has been changed, the jar can be generated by merely replacing the changed classes and not rerunning ejbc. Setting this to false will reduce the time to run ejbjar. | No, defaults to true. |
keepgenerated | Controls whether weblogic will keep the generated Java files used to build the class files added to the jar. This can be useful when debugging | No, defaults to false. |
args | Any additional arguments to be passed to the weblogic.ejbc tool. | No. |
weblogicdtd | Deprecated. Defines the location of the ejb-jar DTD in the weblogic class hierarchy. This should not be necessary if you have weblogic in your classpath. If you do not, you should use a nested <dtd> element, described above. If you do choose to use an attribute, you should use a nested <dtd> element. | No. |
wldtd | Deprecated. Defines the location of the weblogic-ejb-jar DTD which covers the Weblogic specific deployment descriptors. This should not be necessary if you have weblogic in your classpath. If you do not, you should use a nested <dtd> element, described above. | No. |
ejbdtd | Deprecated. Defines the location of the ejb-jar DTD in the weblogic class hierarchy. This should not be necessary if you have weblogic in your classpath. If you do not, you should use a nested <dtd> element, described above. | No. |
newCMP | If this is set to true, the new method for locating CMP descriptors will be used. | No. Defaults to false |
oldCMP | Deprecated This is an antonym for newCMP which should be used instead. | No. |
noEJBC | If this attribute is set to true, Weblogic's ejbc will not be run on the EJB jar. Use this if you prefer to run ejbc at deployment time. | No. |
ejbcclass | Specifies the classname of the ejbc compiler. Normally ejbjar determines the appropriate class based on the DTD used for the EJB. The EJB 2.0 compiler featured in weblogic 6 has, however, been deprecated in version 7. When using with version 7 this attribute should be set to "weblogic.ejbc" to avoid the deprecation warning. | No. |
jvmargs | Any additional arguments to be passed to the Virtual Machine running weblogic.ejbc tool. For example to set the memory size, this could be jvmargs="-Xmx128m" | No. |
jvmdebuglevel | Sets the weblogic.StdoutSeverityLevel to use when running the Virtual Machine that executes ejbc. Set to 16 to avoid the warnings about EJB Home and Remotes being in the classpath | No. |
outputdir | If set ejbc will be given this directory as the output destination rather than a jar file. This allows for the generation of "exploded" jars. | No. |
The weblogic nested element supports three nested elements. The first two, <classpath> and <wlclasspath>, are used to set the respective classpaths. These nested elements are useful when setting up class paths using reference Ids. The last, <sysproperty>, allows Java system properties to be set during the compiler run. This turns out to be necessary for supporting CMP EJB compilation in all environments.
Deprecated
The toplink element is no longer required. Toplink beans can now be built with the standard weblogic element, as long as the newCMP attribute is set to "true"
The TopLink element is used to handle beans which use Toplink for the CMP operations. It is derived from the standard weblogic element so it supports the same set of attributes plus these additional attributes
Attribute | Description | Required |
toplinkdescriptor | This specifies the name of the TOPLink deployment descriptor file contained in the 'descriptordir' directory. | Yes |
toplinkdtd | This specifies the location of the TOPLink DTD file. This can be a file path or a file URL. This attribute is not required, but using a local DTD is recommended. | No, defaults to dtd file at www.objectpeople.com. |
This example shows ejbjar being used to generate deployment jars using a Weblogic EJB container. This example requires the naming standard to be used for the deployment descriptors. Using this format will create a ejb jar file for each variation of '*-ejb-jar.xml' that is found in the deployment descriptor directory.
<ejbjar srcdir="${build.classes}" descriptordir="${descriptor.dir}"> <weblogic destdir="${deploymentjars.dir}" classpath="${descriptorbuild.classpath}"/> <include name="**/*-ejb-jar.xml"/> <exclude name="**/*weblogic*.xml"/> </ejbjar>
If weblogic is not in the Ant classpath, the following example shows how to specify the location of the weblogic DTDs. This example also show the use of a nested classpath element.
<ejbjar descriptordir="${src.dir}" srcdir="${build.classes}"> <weblogic destdir="${deployment.webshop.dir}" keepgeneric="true" args="-g -keepgenerated ${ejbc.compiler}" suffix=".jar" oldCMP="false"> <classpath> <pathelement path="${descriptorbuild.classpath}"/> </classpath> </weblogic> <include name="**/*-ejb-jar.xml"/> <exclude name="**/*-weblogic-ejb-jar.xml"/> <dtd publicId="-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Enterprise JavaBeans 1.1//EN" location="${weblogic.home}/classes/weblogic/ejb/deployment/xml/ejb-jar.dtd"/> <dtd publicId="-//BEA Systems, Inc.//DTD WebLogic 5.1.0 EJB//EN" location="${weblogic.home}/classes/weblogic/ejb/deployment/xml/weblogic-ejb-jar.dtd"/> </ejbjar>
This example shows ejbjar being used to generate a single deployment jar using a Weblogic EJB container. This example does not require the deployment descriptors to use the naming standard. This will create only one ejb jar file - 'TheEJBJar.jar'.
<ejbjar srcdir="${build.classes}" descriptordir="${descriptor.dir}" basejarname="TheEJBJar"> <weblogic destdir="${deploymentjars.dir}" classpath="${descriptorbuild.classpath}"/> <include name="**/ejb-jar.xml"/> <exclude name="**/weblogic*.xml"/> </ejbjar>
This example shows ejbjar being used to generate deployment jars for a TOPLink-enabled entity bean using a Weblogic EJB container. This example does not require the deployment descriptors to use the naming standard. This will create only one TOPLink-enabled ejb jar file - 'Address.jar'.
<ejbjar srcdir="${build.dir}" destdir="${solant.ejb.dir}" descriptordir="${descriptor.dir}" basejarname="Address"> <weblogictoplink destdir="${solant.ejb.dir}" classpath="${java.class.path}" keepgeneric="false" toplinkdescriptor="Address.xml" toplinkdtd="file:///dtdfiles/toplink-cmp_2_5_1.dtd" suffix=".jar"/> <include name="**/ejb-jar.xml"/> <exclude name="**/weblogic-ejb-jar.xml"/> </ejbjar>
This final example shows how you would set-up ejbjar under Weblogic 6.0. It also shows the use of the <support> element to add support files
<ejbjar descriptordir="${dd.dir}" srcdir="${build.classes.server}"> <include name="**/*-ejb-jar.xml"/> <exclude name="**/*-weblogic-ejb-jar.xml"/> <support dir="${build.classes.server}"> <include name="**/*.class"/> </support> <weblogic destdir="${deployment.dir}" keepgeneric="true" suffix=".jar" rebuild="false"> <classpath> <pathelement path="${build.classes.server}"/> </classpath> <wlclasspath> <pathelement path="${weblogic.classes}"/> </wlclasspath> </weblogic> </ejbjar>
The websphere element searches for the websphere specific deployment descriptors and adds them to the final ejb jar file. Websphere has two specific descriptors for session beans:
deployment
.
This step can be performed by the websphere element as part of the jar generation process. If the
switch ejbdeploy
is on, the ejbdeploy tool from the websphere toolset is called for
every ejb-jar. Unfortunately, this step only works, if you use the ibm jdk. Otherwise, the rmic
(called by ejbdeploy) throws a ClassFormatError. Be sure to switch ejbdeploy off, if run ant with
sun jdk.
For the websphere element to work, you have to provide a complete classpath, that contains all classes, that are required to reflect the bean classes. For ejbdeploy to work, you must also provide the classpath of the ejbdeploy tool and set the websphere.home property (look at the examples below).
Attribute | Description | Required |
destdir | The base directory into which the generated weblogic ready jar files are deposited. Jar files are deposited in directories corresponding to their location within the descriptordir namespace. | Yes |
ejbdeploy | Decides wether ejbdeploy is called. When you set this to true, be sure, to run ant with the ibm jdk. | No, defaults to true |
suffix | String value appended to the basename of the deployment descriptor to create the filename of the WebLogic EJB jar file. | No, defaults to '.jar'. |
keepgeneric | This controls whether the generic file used as input to ejbdeploy is retained. | No, defaults to false |
rebuild | This controls whether ejbdeploy is called although no changes have occurred. | No, defaults to false |
tempdir | A directory, where ejbdeploy will write temporary files | No, defaults to '_ejbdeploy_temp'. |
dbName dbSchema |
These options are passed to ejbdeploy. | No |
dbVendor | This option is passed to ejbdeploy. Valid options are for example:
|
No |
codegen quiet novalidate noinform trace use35MappingRules |
These options are all passed to ejbdeploy. All options except 'quiet' default to false. | No |
rmicOptions | This option is passed to ejbdeploy and will be passed on to rmic. | No |
This example shows ejbjar being used to generate deployment jars for all deployment descriptors in the descriptor dir:
<property name="webpshere.home" value="${was4.home}"/> <ejbjar srcdir="${build.class}" descriptordir="etc/ejb"> <include name="*-ejb-jar.xml"/> <websphere dbvendor="DB2UDBOS390_V6" ejbdeploy="true" oldCMP="false" tempdir="/tmp" destdir="${dist.server}"> <wasclasspath> <pathelement location="${was4.home}/deploytool/itp/plugins/org.eclipse.core.boot/boot.jar"/> <pathelement location="${was4.home}/deploytool/itp/plugins/com.ibm.etools.ejbdeploy/runtime/batch.jar"/> <pathelement location="${was4.home}/lib/xerces.jar"/> <pathelement location="${was4.home}/lib/ivjejb35.jar"/> <pathelement location="${was4.home}/lib/j2ee.jar"/> <pathelement location="${was4.home}/lib/vaprt.jar"/> </wasclasspath> <classpath> <path refid="build.classpath"/> </classpath> </websphere> <dtd publicId="-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Enterprise JavaBeans 1.1//EN" location="${lib}/dtd/ejb-jar_1_1.dtd"/> </ejbjar>
Like the WebLogic element, a naming convention for the EJB descriptors is most commonly used to specify the name for the completed JAR file. For example, if the EJB descriptor ejb/Account-ejb-jar.xml is found in the descriptor directory, the iplanet element will search for an iAS-specific EJB descriptor file named ejb/Account-ias-ejb-jar.xml (if it isn't found, the task will fail) and a JAR file named ejb/Account.jar will be written in the destination directory. Note that when the EJB descriptors are added to the JAR file, they are automatically renamed META-INF/ejb-jar.xml and META-INF/ias-ejb-jar.xml.
Of course, this naming behaviour can be modified by specifying attributes in the ejbjar task (for example, basejarname, basenameterminator, and flatdestdir) as well as the iplanet element (for example, suffix). Refer to the appropriate documentation for more details.
Attribute | Description | Required |
destdir | The base directory into which the generated JAR files will be written. Each JAR file is written in directories which correspond to their location within the "descriptordir" namespace. | Yes |
classpath | The classpath used when generating EJB stubs and skeletons. If omitted, the classpath specified in the "ejbjar" parent task will be used. If specified, the classpath elements will be prepended to the classpath specified in the parent "ejbjar" task. Note that nested "classpath" elements may also be used. | No |
keepgenerated | Indicates whether or not the Java source files which are generated by ejbc will be saved or automatically deleted. If "yes", the source files will be retained. If omitted, it defaults to "no". | No |
debug | Indicates whether or not the ejbc utility should log additional debugging statements to the standard output. If "yes", the additional debugging statements will be generated. If omitted, it defaults to "no". | No |
iashome | May be used to specify the "home" directory for this iAS installation. This is used to find the ejbc utility if it isn't included in the user's system path. If specified, it should refer to the [install-location]/iplanet/ias6/ias directory. If omitted, the ejbc utility must be on the user's system path. | No |
suffix | String value appended to the JAR filename when creating each JAR. If omitted, it defaults to ".jar". | No |
As noted above, the iplanet element supports additional <classpath> nested elements.
<ejbjar srcdir="${build.classesdir}" descriptordir="${src}"> <iplanet destdir="${assemble.ejbjar}" classpath="${ias.ejbc.cpath}"/> <include name="**/*-ejb-jar.xml"/> <exclude name="**/*ias-*.xml"/> </ejbjar>This example demonstrates the use of a nested classpath element as well as some of the other optional attributes.
<ejbjar srcdir="${build.classesdir}" descriptordir="${src}"> <iplanet destdir="${assemble.ejbjar}" iashome="${ias.home}" debug="yes" keepgenerated="yes"> <classpath> <pathelement path="."/> <pathelement path="${build.classpath}"/> </classpath> </iplanet> <include name="**/*-ejb-jar.xml"/> <exclude name="**/*ias-*.xml"/> </ejbjar>This example demonstrates the use of basejarname attribute. In this case, the completed EJB-JAR will be named "HelloWorld.jar" If multiple EJB descriptors might be found, care must be taken to ensure that the completed JAR files don't overwrite each other.
<ejbjar srcdir="${build.classesdir}" descriptordir="${src}" basejarname="HelloWorld"> <iplanet destdir="${assemble.ejbjar}" classpath="${ias.ejbc.cpath}"/> <include name="**/*-ejb-jar.xml"/> <exclude name="**/*ias-*.xml"/> </ejbjar>This example demonstrates the use of the dtd nested element. If the local copies of the DTDs are included in the classpath, they will be automatically referenced without the nested elements. In iAS 6.0 SP2, these local DTDs are found in the [iAS-install-directory]/APPS directory. In iAS 6.0 SP3, these local DTDs are found in the [iAS-install-directory]/dtd directory.
<ejbjar srcdir="${build.classesdir}" descriptordir="${src}"> <iplanet destdir="${assemble.ejbjar}"> classpath="${ias.ejbc.cpath}"/> <include name="**/*-ejb-jar.xml"/> <exclude name="**/*ias-*.xml"/> <dtd publicId="-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Enterprise JavaBeans 1.1//EN" location="${ias.home}/APPS/ejb-jar_1_1.dtd"/> <dtd publicId="-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD iAS Enterprise JavaBeans 1.0//EN" location="${ias.home}/APPS/IASEjb_jar_1_0.dtd"/> </ejbjar>
The <jonas> nested element is used to build JOnAS-specific stubs and
skeletons thanks to the GenIC
specific tool, and construct a JAR
file which may be deployed to the JOnAS Application Server. The build process
will always determine if the EJB stubs/skeletons and the EJB-JAR file are up to
date, and it will do the minimum amount of work required.
Like the WebLogic element, a naming convention for the EJB descriptors is
most commonly used to specify the name for the completed JAR file. For example,
if the EJB descriptor ejb/Account-ejb-jar.xml
is found in the
descriptor directory, the <jonas> element will search for a JOnAS-specific
EJB descriptor file named ejb/Account-jonas-ejb-jar.xml
and a JAR
file named ejb/Account.jar
will be written in the destination
directory. But the <jonas> element can also use the JOnAS naming
convention. With the same example as below, the EJB descriptor can also be named
ejb/Account.xml
(no base name terminator here) in the descriptor
directory. Then the <jonas> element will search for a JOnAS-specific EJB
descriptor file called ejb/jonas-Account.xml
. This convention do
not follow strictly the ejb-jar naming convention recommendation but is
supported for backward compatibility with previous version of JOnAS.
Note that when the EJB descriptors are added to the JAR file, they are
automatically renamed META-INF/ejb-jar.xml
and
META-INF/jonas-ejb-jar.xml
.
Of course, this naming behavior can be modified by specifying attributes in the ejbjar task (for example, basejarname, basenameterminator, and flatdestdir) as well as the iplanet element (for example, suffix). Refer to the appropriate documentation for more details.
Attribute | Description | Required |
destdir | The base directory into which the generated JAR files
will be written. Each JAR file is written in directories which correspond
to their location within the "descriptordir " namespace. |
Yes |
jonasroot | The root directory for JOnAS. | Yes |
classpath | The classpath used when generating EJB stubs and skeletons. If omitted, the classpath specified in the "ejbjar" parent task will be used. If specified, the classpath elements will be prepended to the classpath specified in the parent "ejbjar" task (see also the ORB attribute documentation below). Note that nested "classpath" elements may also be used. | No |
keepgenerated | true if the intermediate Java
source files generated by GenIC must be deleted or not. If
omitted, it defaults to false . |
No |
nocompil | true if the generated source files
must not be compiled via the java and rmi compilers. If omitted,
it defaults to false . |
No |
novalidation | true if the XML deployment descriptors must
be parsed without validation. If omitted, it defaults to false . |
No |
javac | Java compiler to use. If omitted, it defaults
to the value of build.compiler property. |
No |
javacopts | Options to pass to the java compiler. | No |
rmicopts | Options to pass to the rmi compiler. | No |
secpropag | true if the RMI Skel. and
Stub. must be modified to implement the implicit propagation of
the security context (the transactional context is always
provided). If omitted, it defaults to false . |
No |
verbose | Indicates whether or not to use -verbose switch. If
omitted, it defaults to false . |
No | additionalargs | Add additional args to GenIC. | No |
keepgeneric | true if the generic JAR file used as input
to GenIC must be retained. If omitted, it defaults to false . |
No |
suffix | String value appended to the JAR filename when creating each JAR. If omitted, it defaults to ".jar". | No |
orb | Choose your ORB : RMI, JEREMIE, DAVID. If omitted, it defaults to the one present in classpath. If specified, the corresponding JOnAS JAR is automatically added to the classpath. | No |
nogenic | If this attribute is set to true ,
JOnAS's GenIC will not be run on the EJB JAR. Use this if you
prefer to run GenIC at deployment time. If omitted, it defaults
to false . |
No |
As noted above, the jonas element supports additional <classpath> nested elements.
This example shows ejbjar being used to generate deployment jars using a JOnAS EJB container. This example requires the naming standard to be used for the deployment descriptors. Using this format will create a EJB JAR file for each variation of '*-jar.xml' that is found in the deployment descriptor directory.
<ejbjar srcdir="${build.classes}" descriptordir="${descriptor.dir}"> <jonas destdir="${deploymentjars.dir}" jonasroot="${jonas.root}" orb="RMI"/> <include name="**/*.xml"/> <exclude name="**/jonas-*.xml"/> <support dir="${build.classes}"> <include name="**/*.class"/> </support> </ejbjar>
This example shows ejbjar being used to generate a single deployment jar using a JOnAS EJB container. This example does require the deployment descriptors to use the naming standard. This will create only one ejb jar file - 'TheEJBJar.jar'.
<ejbjar srcdir="${build.classes}" descriptordir="${descriptor.dir}" basejarname="TheEJBJar"> <jonas destdir="${deploymentjars.dir}" jonasroot="${jonas.root}" suffix=".jar" classpath="${descriptorbuild.classpath}"/> <include name="**/ejb-jar.xml"/> <exclude name="**/jonas-ejb-jar.xml"/> </ejbjar>
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