adambien/wad

Watch and Deploy - deploying ThinWARs without IDE plugins

watch and deploy (WAD)

WAD watches changes in src\main\java folder, builds the project using the pom.xml and deploys the ThinWAR into the configured folder.

installation

Download the executable and self-contained wad.jar

usage

Launch WAD from within your ThinWAR-project created with javaee8-essentials-archetype.

[THIN_WAR]/java -jar wad.jar [DEPLOYMENT_DIR ANOTHER_DIR]

e.g.

[THIN_WAR]/java -jar wad.jar /openliberty/wlp/usr/servers/defaultServer/dropins/ dist

wad can be also configured in ~/.wadrc. Each deployment folder in an new line:

/Users/duke/payara/glassfish/domains/domain1/autodeploy 
/Users/duke/openliberty/usr/servers/defaultServer/dropins
/Users/duke/tomee/webapps
/Users/duke/wildfly/standalone/deployments

On each source change WAD will:

1. Use the current directory as the service name
2. Build the project using the pom.xml found in the directory
3. Copy the ./target/[name].war into the path used as parameter

You only have to write code and save it frequently like this:

common deployment directories

WildFly wildfly-[VERSION].Final/standalone/deployments

OpenLiberty openliberty-[VERSION]/usr/servers/defaultServer/dropins

Payara payara/glassfish/domains/domain1/autodeploy

TomEE tomee-[version]/webapps

deploy'em all

WAD also supports simultaneous deployment to multiple servers

[THIN_WAR]/java -jar wad.jar /openliberty/wlp/usr/servers/defaultServer/dropins/ wildfly/standalone/deployments payara/glassfish/domains/domain1/autodeploy tomee/webapps

run from anywhere

A a shell script:

#!/bin/bash
BASEDIR=$(dirname $0)
java -jar ${BASEDIR}/wad.jar "$@"%

will install WAD "globally". Now you can launch WAD from any directory you like e.g.

wad.sh /openliberty/wlp/usr/servers/defaultServer/dropins/

articles

"Improved Java / Jakarta EE Productivity with wad.sh" by @rieckpil

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wad's Issues

Doesn't watch for src/main/resources or src/main/webapp

Hello Adam,

I am testing WAD and I realize that it only watches over the src/main/java folder and there are use cases where there are changes in the resoruces or webapp folders without changing the code files and WAD doesn't catch those changes. It would be a nice to have.

Thanks,

Cristhian.

Use `verify` instead of `clean install`

As Robert Scholte keeps repeating, using clean install is a bad habit from the past ;-)

clean is not required any more by almost all plugins, as they support incremental builds. You rob them from their chance to optimize by blindly forcing them to redo everything.

install is also not necessary if you only need a verified artifact in your target folder. Just use verify and skip the installation to your local .m2 repository.

This would be a minimal change, but the speed improvement can be small but noticeable when doing it several times a minute.

Enable a profile option to activate project profiles.

Add Support For Comment in .wadrc

wad should not consider line written as #${TOMEE_HOME}/webapps in .wadrc as deployment directory. All lines starting with # should be treated as comment to match bash omments.

Source change is not detected

I use WAD with NetBeans on Windows 10.
In about 10% cases WAD does not detect that source file has changed.
If I press Enter in the terminal, where WAD is running, It compiles code 2 times instead of 1.

Generate a new release

Hi Adam.

Can you generate a new release of wad?

One month ago I downloaded the latest release available, 0.1.1, and I could not use wad due the missing use case added in the last commit (PR #12).
Only the idea of add the same functionality today to use wad as a deploying tool gave me the chance to inspect the issues and pr's and found that the latest commit is what I need.

Regards, and thanks for your help!

Not Working With Maven Installed By Sdkman

Its not working with maven installed sdkman. For details pls check the attached screenshot.

error output on build failure

Currently the console only shows a thumb down icon if the build fails. It would be nice if we could see the error message if an error occured during mvn package so i dont have to run it manually. Great tool btw!

WAD on Windows Errors

Trying to use WAD on Windows and I keep getting

?[34m 'C:\Users\john\servers\payara5\glassfish\domains\domain1\autodeploy' ?[0m
WAD is watching .\src\main, deploying target\cdi-code.war to [C:\Users\john\servers\payara5\glassfish\domains\domain1\autodeploy\cd
i-code.war]
[?[1;90m09:48:37?[0m]Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalStateException: Maven application directory was not specified, and $
{maven.home} is not provided in the system properties. Please specify at least on of these.
        at org.apache.maven.shared.invoker.MavenCommandLineBuilder.checkRequiredState(MavenCommandLineBuilder.java:126)
        at org.apache.maven.shared.invoker.MavenCommandLineBuilder.build(MavenCommandLineBuilder.java:61)
        at org.apache.maven.shared.invoker.DefaultInvoker.execute(DefaultInvoker.java:100)
        at com.airhacks.wad.watch.control.Builder.build(Builder.java:40)
        at com.airhacks.wad.watch.boundary.WADFlow.buildAndDeploy(WADFlow.java:65)
        at com.airhacks.wad.watch.boundary.WADFlow.lambda$new$0(WADFlow.java:41)
        at com.airhacks.wad.watch.boundary.WADFlow.<init>(WADFlow.java:42)
        at wad.App.main(App.java:75)

when I run the java -jar wad.jar [deployment-dir] command. I'm not sure what I need to do. mvn -v gives me

Apache Maven 3.5.3 (3383c37e1f9e9b3bc3df5050c29c8aff9f295297; 2018-02-24T19:49:05Z)
Maven home: C:\Users\john\mvn\apache-maven-3.5.3\bin\..
Java version: 1.8.0_162, vendor: Oracle Corporation
Java home: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_162\jre
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: Cp1252
OS name: "windows 10", version: "10.0", arch: "amd64", family: "windows"

Parametrize war name

My project is located in directories like xFulanov1.56.3, but it always generates war files like target/fulano.war. WAD fails to find my war file, giving me a java.nio.file.NoSuchFileException: target\xFulanov1.56.3.war error message.
Is it possible to tell WAD that it should observe a different filename?

Due to business restrictions, it wouldn't be easy to rename my project directories.

[rfe] ~/.wadrc config file to add default deployment dirs

Support very simple java -jar $WAD_HOME/wad.jar without having to type every time/project the various locations of target systems.

support gradle projects

title

WAR name is not derived properly if the pom contains `finalName` element.

Archive name is resolved by String thinWARName = currentDirectory + ".war";
https://github.com/AdamBien/wad/blob/master/src/main/java/wad/App.java#L78

WAR name is not derived properly if the pom contains finalName element.

    <build>
        <finalName>foo-bar</finalName>
    </build>