Fenix Webapp IST

Table of Contents

• About
• Setup Environment
• Compiling
• Create Jar for Fenix Scripts
• Create Manual SQL Updates
• Reading Artifacts From Internal Repo

#About

Fenix Webapp is the aggregator project for IST's Fenix Installation.

#Setup Environment

1. Create a configuration file using mvn bennu:generate-configuration. This generates src/main/resources/configuration.properties, which should be customized to best suit your needs.
2. Copy src/main/resources/fenix-framework.properties.sample to src/main/resources/fenix-framework.properties.
3. Modify both files accordingly
4. export JAVA_OPTS="-server -Xms256m -Xmx1024m -XX:PermSize=384m"
5. export MAVEN_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS"

#Compiling

There are three ways to compile the Fenix Webapp.

Embedded

This is the approach best suited for development. Instead of packaging the Webapp, it is possible to run Tomcat directly in Maven.

To run the webapp, using tomcat7-maven-plugin, add the following to your MAVEN_OPTS environment property:

-Dorg.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.STRICT_QUOTE_ESCAPING=false

And then, run the webapp using:

mvn clean tomcat7:run

or

mvn tomcat7:run

To run the embedded Tomcat with the Debugger, add the followwing to your MAVEN_OPTS environment property:

-Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,address=8000,server=y,suspend=n

You can change the suspend=n to suspend=y if debugging the startup process is required.

Exploded War

This approach is well suited for development, as it does not create a War file.

mvn clean prepare-package war:exploded

This creates the exploded Webapp in target/fenix-webapp-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.

To run the Webapp in a standalone Tomcat installation, simply create a Symlink using:

ln -s $(pwd)/target/fenix-webapp-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT <tomcat>/webapps/fenix

War File

This approach is the one used for production environments. Simply run:

mvn clean package

The generated War file is located in target/fenix-webapp-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.war

Create Jar for Fenix Scripts

To create the Jar required for Fenix Scripts (Which contains the necessary Base classes and configuration files), simply run:

mvn clean test -Pjar

This creates deploy/fenix-webapp-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.jar

Create Manual SQL Updates

Schema updates are now automatically handled. However, if you find yourself in need of meddling with the schema update process, and need to know what the Framework is doing, you can run:

mvn clean test -PSQLUpdateGenerator

Which will create the file etc/database_operations/updates.sql

Reading Artifacts From Internal Repo

In order to use the -Pproduction profile, it is necessary to have maven configured with username and password. The two files involved in this setup are:

1. ~/.m2/settings.xml
2. ~/.m2/settings-security.xml

1. Run the following command to create your own master password so that ~/.m2/settings.xml does not contain plain text passwords

mvn --encrypt-master-password

This will generate something like this: {jSMOWnoPFgsHVpMvz5VrIt5kRbzGpI8u+9EF1iFQyJQ=}

2. Save the output in the ~/.m2/settings-security.xml file

<settingsSecurity>
  <master>{jSMOWnoPFgsHVpMvz5VrIt5kRbzGpI8u+9EF1iFQyJQ=}</master>
</settingsSecurity>

3. Run the following command input the password of the user you have for the dsi-maven-artifacts repo.

mvn --encrypt-password

This will generate something like this: {COQLCE6DU6GtcS5P=}

4. Add the following section in the ~/.m2/settings.xml file

<settings>
  <servers>
    <server>
      <id>dsi-maven-artifacts</id>
      <username>foo</username>
      <password>{COQLCE6DU6GtcS5P=}</password>
    </server>
  </servers>
</settings>