Auto
deployment is a feature we do need to run our test cases. I needed an
way to auto deploy web project to tomcat and test it. To to this
programatically
there are several ways. Lets find out them.
1)
Using Embed tomcat
this
is the best option I recommend to any one who tries to do that. I
will show you the code snippet for it.
package org.wso2.tomcat;
import org.apache.catalina.Context;
import org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException;
import org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost;
import org.apache.catalina.startup.Tomcat;
/**
* Created by waruna on 4/17/14.
*/
public class TravelocityDeployer {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
Tomcat tomcat = new Tomcat();
tomcat.getService().setContainer(tomcat.getEngine());
tomcat.setPort(8080);
tomcat.setBaseDir(".");
StandardHost stdHost = (StandardHost) tomcat.getHost();
stdHost.setAppBase(".");
stdHost.setAutoDeploy(true);
stdHost.setDeployOnStartup(true);
stdHost.setUnpackWARs(true);
tomcat.setHost(stdHost);
System.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.trustStore", "/home/waruna/Products/wso2is-4.7.0/repository/resources/security/wso2carbon.jks");
System.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword",
"wso2carbon");
System.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.trustStoreType", "JKS");
try {
Context ctx = tomcat.addWebapp( tomcat.getHost() ,"/travelocity.com", "/home/waruna/tomcatembed/webapps/travelocity.com.war");
tomcat.start();
HTTPTestClient httpClient = new HTTPTestClient();
httpClient.loginToTravelocityApp();
tomcat.stop();
} catch (LifecycleException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
Best
thing in this approach is you do not need to have tomcat installed in
your machine. Here I used following dependencies
in my pom.xml.
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.tomcat</groupId>
<artifactId>tomcat-catalina</artifactId>
<version>7.0.28</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.tomcat.embed</groupId>
<artifactId>tomcat-embed-jasper</artifactId>
<version>7.0.28</version>
</dependency>
2) Using Cargo
Maven plugin
Cargo is an
maven plug-in that I came across when I wanted to do this. You can
find more on
here. The issue I
found here is that you need a running Tomcat container here which is
really not matching my requirement.
3) Using Curl
curl -T "myapp.war" "http://manager:manager@localhost:8080/manager/text/deploy?path=/myapp&update=true"
this is again
using running tomcat instance. There may be many other ways. Please
do add them in comments.
