perfsonar development work

[Maciej Glowiak <>]

Hi All,

Lookup Service ant scripts on trunk now support jar repository.

Maciej



Roman Lapacz napisał(a):
> Hi,
>
> yesterday I made important changes in Ant files. My main goal is to 
> remove jar libraries in lib directory and replace them with Ant script 
> which automatically downloads only those jar files which are needed by 
> the service. RRD MA and SQL MA have stared using this approach and I 
> would like you, developers of other services, to provide similar changes.
>
>
> In case of SQL MA to download required jars the following command has to 
> be executed:
>
>      $PERFSONAR/ant> ant -f libs-download-sqlma.xml libs-sqlma
>
> this will download needed libraries to lib/repository directory.
>
>
>
> This is what I had to do for SQL MA (and this is also the instruction 
> which you could use for your services):
>
> - new Ant file libs-download-sqlma.xml  in $PERSONAR/ant/ - this file 
> contains references to general targets and service specific targets
>
> - new Ant file sqlma-libs-download-targets.xml in $PERSONAR/ant/sqlma/ - 
> this file contains the list of required libraries (names and versions). 
> Most of required libraries can be downloaded by the Ant script  from 
> public server (repository) http://www.ibiblio.org/maven2/ but if needed 
> library is missing there then we can use our library server. I've 
> prepared our library repository on 
> http://wiki.perfsonar.net/services/jar-repository/ and the content of it 
> is also stored in SVN 
> (https://svn.internet2.edu/svn/perfsonar/trunk/jar-repository/). Very 
> important is to use correct names of libraries. They can be found in xml 
> meta files describing  libraries, for example:
>
> * in case of Xalan library its config file for version 2.7.0 can be 
> found here:
>       http://www.ibiblio.org/maven2/xalan/xalan/2.7.0/xalan-2.7.0.pom
>   value of elements groupId, artifactId and version must be used in Ant 
> script to specify that library
>
> * in case of rrdjtool library its meta file can be found here:
>     
> http://wiki.perfsonar.net/services/jar-repository/rrdjtool/rrdjtool/1.0/rrdjtool-1.0.pom 
>
>
> - little different classpath in $PERFSONAR/ant/build-sqlma.xml which now 
> points $PERFSONAR/lib/repository instead of $PERFSONAR/lib
>
> - change of library paths for copy and remove operations while deploying 
> and undeploying the service
>
>
> I didn't want to harm existing things for your services so I created 
> axis-deploy-targets-2.xml and replaced import statement of 
> axis-deploy-targets with it in $PERFSONAR/ant/build-sqlma.xml. But next 
> week I would like to remove jars from lib directory and old 
> axis-deploy-targets.xml file. Please, prepare your service to use this 
> new library downloading. I hope changes for all services could be 
> completed next week.
>
>
> If you have any questions please send them to me. I hope Ant files for 
> SQL MA and RRD MA will be good and clear  examples for you.
>
>
> Roman


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