org.glassfish.embeddable.archive

Class ScatteredArchive

java.lang.Object

org.glassfish.embeddable.archive.ScatteredArchive

public class ScatteredArchive
extends Object

Abstraction for a Scattered Java EE module (parts disseminated in various directories).

Usage example :

         GlassFish glassfish = GlassFishRuntime.bootstrap().newGlassFish();
         glassfish.start();
 
         // Create a scattered web application.
         ScatteredArchive archive = new ScatteredArchive("testapp", ScatteredArchive.Type.WAR);
         // target/classes directory contains my complied servlets
         archive.addClassPath(new File("target", "classes"));
         // resources/sun-web.xml is my WEB-INF/sun-web.xml
         archive.addMetadata(new File("resources", "sun-web.xml"));
         // resources/MyLogFactory is my META-INF/services/org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory
         archive.addMetadata(new File("resources", "MyLogFactory"),
                 "META-INF/services/org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory");
 
         Deployer deployer = glassfish.getDeployer();
         // Deploy my scattered web application
         deployer.deploy(archive.toURI());
 

Author:

Jerome Dochez, bhavanishankar@java.net

Nested Class Summary

Nested Classes

Modifier and Type	Class and Description
static class	ScatteredArchive.Type Enumeration values for the scattered Java EE module types.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
ScatteredArchive(String name, ScatteredArchive.Type type) Construct a new empty scattered archive.
ScatteredArchive(String name, ScatteredArchive.Type type, File rootDirectory) Construct a new scattered archive with all the contents from the rootDirectory.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	addClassPath(File classpath) Add a directory or a JAR file to this scattered archive.
void	addMetadata(File metadata) Add a new metadata to this scattered archive.
void	addMetadata(File metadata, String name) Add a new metadata to this scattered archive.
URI	toURI() Get the deployable URI for this scattered archive.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

ScatteredArchive

public ScatteredArchive(String name,
                        ScatteredArchive.Type type)

Construct a new empty scattered archive.

Parameters:

name - name of the archive.

type - type of the archive

Throws:

NullPointerException - if name or type is null

ScatteredArchive

public ScatteredArchive(String name,
                        ScatteredArchive.Type type,
                        File rootDirectory)
                 throws IOException

Construct a new scattered archive with all the contents from the rootDirectory.

By default, a scattered archive is not different from any other archive where all the files are located under a top level directory (rootDirectory).

For example, In case of a WAR type archive, the rootDirectory should look like this:

      rootDirectory/WEB-INF/classes/org/myorg/FooServlet.class
      rootDirectory/WEB-INF/classes/org/myorg/Bar.class
      rootDirectory/WEB-INF/web.xml
      rootDirectory/WEB-INF/lib/myjar.jar
      rootDirectory/index.jsp
      rootDirectory/theme.css
      rootDirectory/helper.js
 

Some files can then be scattered in different locations and be specified through the appropriate add methods of this class.

Parameters:

name - name of the archive.

type - type of the archive

rootDirectory - root directory.

Throws:

NullPointerException - if name, type or rootDirectory is null.

IOException - if rootDirectory does not exist.

IllegalArgumentException - if rootDirectory is not a directory.

Method Detail

addClassPath

public void addClassPath(File classpath)
                  throws IOException

Add a directory or a JAR file to this scattered archive.

The classpath that is added is considered as a plain Java CLASSPATH.

Case 1 : classpath is a directory:

Let us say there is TEMP/abc directory, which has following contents:

      TEMP/abc/org/myorg/a/A.class
      TEMP/abc/org/myorg/b/B.class
      TEMP/abc/com/xyz/c/C.class
      TEMP/abc/LocalStrings.properties
      TEMP/abc/image/1.png
 

then addClassPath(new File("TEMP", "abc") will make:

(a) The following classes available in the deployed scattered archive application:

          org.myorg.a.A
          org.myorg.b.B
          com.xyz.c.C
 

(b) LocalStrings.properties available in the deployed scattered archive application. So, the deployed application can do ResourceBundle.getBundle("LocalStrings");

(c) image/1.png available in the deployed scattered archive application. So, the deployed application can load the image file via getClass().getClassLoader().getResource("image/1.png");

If there is any other type of file under TEMP/abc then it will also be available in the deployed scattered archive application's classloader.

Case 2: classpath is a JAR file

Let us say there is TEMP/xyz.jar, then addClassPath(new File("TEMP", "xyz.jar")) will make all the classes and any random files inside TEMP/xyz.jar available in the deployed scattered archive application.

Parameters:

classpath - A directory or a JAR file.

Throws:

NullPointerException - if classpath is null

IOException - if the classpath is not found.

addMetadata

public void addMetadata(File metadata)
                 throws IOException

Add a new metadata to this scattered archive.

The addMetadata(metadata) method has the same effect as:

      addMetadata(metadata, null)
 

Follows the same semantics as addMetadata(File, String) method.

Throws:

IOException

addMetadata

public void addMetadata(File metadata,
                        String name)
                 throws IOException

Add a new metadata to this scattered archive.

A metadata is identified by its name (e.g., META-INF/ejb.xml).

If the specified name is null, then the metadata is considered as a deployment descriptor metadata and the name is computed as:

      "WEB-INF/" + metadata.getName() for WAR type archive.
      "META-INF/" + metadata.getName() for other type of archive.
 

If the scattered archive already contains the metadata with the same name, then the old value is replaced.

Parameters:

metadata - location of the metadata

name - name of the metadata (e.g., META-INF/ejb.xml or META-INF/sun-ejb-jar.xml)

Throws:

NullPointerException - if metadata is null

IOException - if metadata does not exist.

IllegalArgumentException - if metadata is a directory.

toURI

public URI toURI()
          throws IOException

Get the deployable URI for this scattered archive.

Note : java.io.tmpdir is used while building the URI.

Returns:

Deployable scattered archive URI.

Throws:

IOException - if any I/O error happens while building the URI or while reading metadata, classpath elements, rootDirectory.