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In the geronimo-web.xml
file, application deployer maps the security roles, ejb names, database resources, JMS resources, etc. declared in web.xml
to corresponding entities deployed in the server. In addition to that, if there are any web container specific configurations, such as Tomcat or Jetty specific, depending on the application needs, all these settings are configured as well here. If the web application depends on any third party libraries or other services running in the server, all these dependencies are declared in the plan. Some web applications require class loading requirements different from the default class loading behavior. The geronimo-web.xml
allows application deployer to configure this as well. There are many more configurations that could be done through geronimo-web.xml
depending on the needs of web application. The following sections briefly explain how geronimo-web.xml
can be used to configure the web container and web applications.
The geronimo-web.xml
uses XML elements from http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/j2ee/web-2.0.1 namespace and one or more namespaces mentioned in Configuring resources in the application scope section earlier in the document.
For example, the following web.xml
and geronimo-web.xml
are the deployment descriptor and Geronimo deployment plan respectively, of a web application that connects to a datasource deployed on DB2 and retrieves data from a table.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" version="2.5"> <resource-ref> <res-ref-name>jdbc/DataSource</res-ref-name> <res-type>javax.sql.DataSource</res-type> <res-auth>Container</res-auth> <res-sharing-scope>Shareable</res-sharing-scope> </resource-ref> <welcome-file-list> <welcome-file>jsp/EMPdemo.jsp</welcome-file> </welcome-file-list> </web-app>
The default namespace of the above XML document is http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee
. The XML elements that do not have a namespace prefix belong to the default namespace.
With Servlet 2.5 specification, many of the declarations done through web.xml
can also be done through corresponding annotations in the servlets and JSPs. When both annotations and web.xml are provided, the declarations in web.xml takes precedence over annotations.
The web module connects to back end datasource using its JNDI name jdbc/DataSource
as declared in the web.xml
.
In geronimo-web.xml
, a <dependency> element is added to make the the resource archive (RAR) visible to your application, and then a mapping is provided in <resource-ref>.
<web-app xmlns="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/j2ee/web-2.0.1" xmlns:naming="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/naming-1.2" xmlns:sec="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/security-2.0" xmlns:sys="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/deployment-1.2"> <sys:environment> <sys:moduleId> <sys:groupId>samples</sys:groupId> <sys:artifactId>EmployeeDemo</sys:artifactId> <sys:version>2.5</sys:version> <sys:type>war</sys:type> </sys:moduleId> <sys:dependencies> <sys:dependency> <sys:groupId>samples</sys:groupId> <sys:artifactId>EmployeeDatasource</sys:artifactId> <sys:version>2.5</sys:version> <sys:type>rar</sys:type> </sys:dependency> </sys:dependencies> </sys:environment> <context-root>/EmployeeDemo</context-root> <naming:resource-ref> <naming:ref-name>jdbc/DataSource</naming:ref-name> <naming:resource-link>jdbc/EmployeeDatasource</naming:resource-link> </naming:resource-ref> </web-app>
The default namespace of the above XML document is http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/j2ee/web-2.0.1
. The XML elements that do not have a namespace prefix belong to the default namespace.
Observe the various XML tags and corresponding namespaces used in the deployment plan for various purposes.
<sys:environment> .. </sys:environment>
: These elements provide the moduleid configuration and the dependencies. The moduleId elements provide the configuration name for the web module. So, when the web module is deployed, it is given the configuration name samples/EmployeeDemo/2.5/war
. The dependencies elements provide the configurations and third party libraries on which the web module is dependent on. These configurations and libraries will be available to the web module via a classloader hierarchy. In this case, the web module is dependent on samples/EmployeeDatasource/2.5/rar
which is the configuration of the deployed Datasource that connects to a back end DB2 database. The Datasource deploys a database connection pool (javax.sql.Datasource)
with name jdbc/EmployeeDatasource
.
<sys:context-root> .. </sys:context-root>
: The XML elements used to provide the web context root of the web applications.
<naming:resource-ref> .. </naming:resource-ref>
: These elements help us to configure the resource references. In this case, the datasource reference jdbc/DataSource
is mapped to jdbc/EmployeeDatasource
.
In the EMPdemo.jsp
, the following java code snippet is used to obtain a connection from the datasource. It reference the resource from the java:comp/env
context entries.
.... .... Context initContext = new InitialContext(); Context envContext = (Context)initContext.lookup("java:comp/env"); DataSource ds = (DataSource)envContext.lookup("jdbc/DataSource"); Connection con = ds.getConnection(); .... ....
The above descriptor and the plan files are the simple illustrations that explain how web modules are developed and assembled for Apache Geronimo. Similarly, many other configurations can be performed in the geronimo-web.xml
.
All the XML schema files are located at <geronimo_home>/schema
directory. Please go through the .xsd
files to have a feel of XML tags that can be used in geronimo-web.xml
for configuring web applications.
The <container-config> element is used to hold container specific Web application settings using the following format. None of the Tomcat configuration elements are required, but if specified, they must follow the order in the example below.
<container-config> <tomcat xmlns="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/web/tomcat/config-1.0"> <!-- Begin Tomcat configuration elements --> <host>host</host> <cross-context/> <disable-cookies/> <valve-chain>valve</valve-chain> <listener-chain>listener</listener> <tomcat-realm>realm</tomcat-realm> <manager>manager</manager> <cluster>cluster</cluster> <!-- End Tomcat configuration elements --> </tomcat> </container-config>
where
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