Ticket #775 (closed Defect: fixed)

Opened 10 years ago

Last modified 8 years ago

hot deployment on Windows

Reported by: dgf Owned by:
Priority: Major Milestone:
Component: DeepaMehta Standard Distribution Version: 4.5
Keywords: Cc: AsifM, Malte
Complexity: 3 Area: Runtime Environment
Module:

Description

Pax Runner fails on a fresh Windows 8 installation with Java 8u31 and Maven 3.2.5

The dynamic resolution of the file installation uses the basedir property and this results in unusable paths.

<felix.fileinstall.dir>
    ${project.basedir}/modules/dm4-core/target,
    ...
</felix.fileinstall.dir>

After cloning and starting DeepaMehta in C:\projects\deepamehta the property evaluation results in C:\projects\deepamehta/modules/dm4-core/target and the Pax Runner throws a strange class not found exception for the main class of C:\projects\deepamehta.modules.dm4-core.target

Some research and tests later, I realized that the Felix Fileinstall Plugin can only handle directories with slashes or escaped back-slashes like C:/projects/deepamehta/modules/dm4-core/target and the escaped form C:\\projects\\deepamehta\\modules\\dm4-core\\target

A manually adjusted configuration works with static paths and only without the leading/trailing comma.

<felix.fileinstall.dir>
    C:/daten/deepamehta/modules/dm4-core/target,
    ...
</felix.fileinstall.dir>

The underlying question is - How we can create such a dynamic relative path in the right form? This is a Maven specific topic and there are also other properties like the logging file and repository path. I have found different solutions to replace the Maven property basedir value:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3872355/how-to-convert-file-separator-in-maven

http://mojo.codehaus.org/build-helper-maven-plugin/regex-property-mojo.html

http://mojo.codehaus.org/build-helper-maven-plugin/bsh-property-mojo.html

Change History

comment:1 Changed 10 years ago by jri

  • Cc AsifM added

Summary for Windows users:

A workaround is to set absolute paths in the felix.fileinstall.dir property (in pom.xml), e.g.

<felix.fileinstall.dir>
    D:/dev_work/source/deepamehta/modules/dm4-core/target,
    ...
</felix.fileinstall.dir>

Note the forward slashes. (Alternatively you could use backward slashes but you have to escape them as \\ then.)
IMPORTANT: you must remove the 2 surprising leading and trailing commas.

If still not working remove the line breaks between the individual <felix.fileinstall.dir> entries.

Unfortunately there is no apparent general fix to this issue.

Thanks to dgf and AsifM for providing help!

comment:2 Changed 10 years ago by jri

  • Cc Malte added

comment:3 Changed 9 years ago by jri

  • Version 4.5 deleted

comment:4 Changed 9 years ago by jri

  • Version set to 4.5
  • Milestone Release 4.5 deleted

comment:5 follow-up: ↓ 6 Changed 8 years ago by Malte

Is this still an issue with the introduction of the bundle-dev directory and the dm4.deploy.dir property?

comment:6 in reply to: ↑ 5 Changed 8 years ago by jri

  • Status changed from new to closed
  • Resolution set to fixed

Replying to Malte:

Is this still an issue with the introduction of the bundle-dev directory and the dm4.deploy.dir property?

This should no longer be an issue anymore.
Thank you for reminding!

Last edited 8 years ago by jri (previous) (diff)
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