[seek-dev] potential unified ant build file for seek/ecogrid

Jing Tao tao at nceas.ucsb.edu
Thu Sep 8 14:58:07 PDT 2005


Sure, I will add metacat to it.

Jing


Jing Tao
National Center for Ecological
Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS)
735 State St. Suite 204
Santa Barbara, CA 93101

On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Kevin Ruland wrote:

> Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 16:33:56 -0500
> From: Kevin Ruland <kruland at ku.edu>
> To: Jing Tao <tao at nceas.ucsb.edu>
> Cc: seek-dev at ecoinformatics.org
> Subject: Re: [seek-dev] potential unified ant build file for seek/ecogrid
> 
> Jing,
>
> Alas, digir didn't have a client target....  I'm very certain we're
> going to have some other issues which we might have to address through
> filesets or something.
>
> I did run into one very wierd thing lately -- after switching back and
> forth between the new build script and the build_digir.xml.  For some
> unknown reason, now in the generateWSDLfromGWSDL target, when executing
> the generateBinding I now need to have the property binding.protocol set
> to http.  I don't see it set in any of the other build files.  Hmmm.....
>
> I'll commit this thing as build_new.xml, and perhaps you can take a stab
> at setting up metacat to use it.  If you run into anything significant,
> just let me know.
>
> Kevin
>
> Jing Tao wrote:
>
>> Hi, Kevin:
>>
>> It is good idea to clean up build.xml in ecogrid. It is in my list for
>> a long time, but haven't done yet :(
>>
>> The reason there are so many build files is: I developed build.xml for
>> Metacat, but if we want use it to build other service such as digir or
>> srb we need to changed lots of properties in build.xml. And the those
>> propertis are very fix for each ecogrid service, so person just copied
>> the original file and modified some properties and check it into cvs
>> for next usage.
>>
>> I took a look at build file and it looks good. However, I didn't found
>> client target. I guess it is convenient to have client target for
>> developer to test.
>>
>> Thanks for the effort.
>>
>> Jing
>>
>> Jing Tao
>> National Center for Ecological
>> Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS)
>> 735 State St. Suite 204
>> Santa Barbara, CA 93101
>>
>> On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Kevin Ruland wrote:
>>
>>> Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 13:46:01 -0500
>>> From: Kevin Ruland <kruland at ku.edu>
>>> To: seek-dev at ecoinformatics.org
>>> Subject: [seek-dev] potential unified ant build file for seek/ecogrid
>>>
>>> Jing et al,
>>>
>>> The build system in seek/projects/ecogrid is rather messy.  It has way
>>> too many build.xml files to make it easy to determine what is required
>>> to build the system.  I noticed that many of the build*.xml file share
>>> quite a bit of common -- targets, properties, etc.  In order to bring
>>> some order to this, I tried to create what I think can be a unified
>>> build for the different services.  One only needs to set a property to
>>> control which service is to be built.
>>>
>>> In order to construct this build.xml file, I started with my
>>> hacked-to-work build_digir.xml and attempted to abstract some of its
>>> crazyness.  I did not spend any time looking at buildsrb.xml
>>> build_reg.xml, build_lsid.xml or build.xml.  I might have missed
>>> something critical in those files.  Hopefully, this setup will prove
>>> adequate for all the services -- perhaps with some additional tweaking.
>>>
>>> The attached build.xml file requires a simple build.properties file
>>> which contains three required properties:
>>>
>>> ogsa.root=/opt/globus
>>> tomcat.root=/opt/jakarta-tomcat-4.1.31
>>> target=digir
>>>
>>> The first two are pretty obvious because they point to the base
>>> directory of installed packages.  The 'target' property should determine
>>> which service to construct.  I have only set it up for 'digir' right
>>> now.
>>>
>>> In the build.xml file are two places where service specific
>>> configuration can occur.
>>>
>>> The target setProperties defers to service specific targets to set
>>> properties for each service.  These targets are supposed to only set
>>> properties to control the remainder of the build process.  setProperties
>>> is a dependency for compileServer and compileStubs.
>>>
>>> The target copyWebappJars defers to service specific targets.  This
>>> target is envoked after constructing the server jar and stub jar but
>>> before constructing the gar file.  The intention is to copy into the
>>> ${build.lib} directory any supplemental jars required by the webapp for
>>> deployment.  The digir service required commons-httpclient jar file
>>> which is contained in the globus build system but is not installed in
>>> tomcat by globus.  I've used this target to copy the globus'
>>> commons-httpclient jar file into ${build.lib} prior to gar-ring.
>>>
>>> I made a fairly significant change by renaming the gar file produced
>>> from
>>> 'org.ecoinformatics.ecogrid.EcoGridQueryInterfaceLevelOne.DigirImpl.gar'
>>> to the much shorter 'DigirImpl.gar'.  The reason for this is when globus
>>> constructs the undeployment descriptor it names it based on the part of
>>> the filename before the first '.'.  Since for all the services this
>>> produces an undeployment named 'org-undeploy.wsdd' this can cause
>>> troubles if one intends to deploy multiple services on the same host.
>>> With the shorter name, globus constructs the descriptor named
>>> 'DigirImpl-undeploy.wsdd'.  This also means that the build.xml file
>>> knows what the gar.id is when envoking the undeploy target in
>>> build-services.xml.
>>>
>>> What do you think of this?
>>>
>>> Kevin
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
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