How to deploy WAR using Netbeans 7.3.1 + JBoss AS7
jakarta-ee, jboss, jboss7.x, maven, netbeans
Solution
the default maven goal for the "Run Project" button in netbeans is `package`. this goal builds the project but does not deploy your app.
you can change this by:
- right-clicking on your project and go to properties.
- under the categories panel, select actions.
- select the "Run Project" action and edit the "Execute Goals" textbox (e.g. `jboss:start`).
note that you will need the jboss maven plugin.
Problem
This is an existing project that builds and deploys just fine using Intellij + AS7. I want to build and deploy using Netbeans 7.3.1 so I created a new Maven project in NetBeans, selecting the "import the project using the Maven pom.xml files" option. NetBeans recognized the modules and used Maven to build the project successfully. Very nice. ``` Webapp assembled in [931 msecs] Building war: G:\Patrac_Netbeans\Patrac-web\target\Patrac-web-1.0.war ``` Next, I started JBoss using NetBeans' Services panel. Next, I clicked the Run Project button, expecting deployment to occur, but NetBeans only rebuilt the project again. And then I remembered configuring Intellij to build & deploy using the target directory. I don't see a way to do this in NetBeans. So, how to set up the deployment using NetBeans? UPDATE 8/20/2013: The deployment of the EJB- and WAR modules work. Here's the output when deploying the EJB: cd G:\Patrac_Netbeans\Patrac-ejb; "JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_25" "\"G:\Program Files\NetBeans 7.3.1\java\maven\bin\mvn.bat\"" -Dnetbeans.deploy=true package Scanning for projects... Building Patrac EJB module 1.0 ... BUILD SUCCESS Total time: 8.251s Finished at: Tue Aug 20 14:33:38 EDT 2013 Final Memory: 22M/364M NetBeans: Deploying on JBoss Application Server ``` profile mode: false debug mode: false force redeploy: true ``` Distributing G:\Patrac_Netbeans\Patrac-ejb\target\Patrac-ejb.jar to [org.jboss.as.ee.deployment.spi.DeploymentManagerTarget@45fbf23c] Deploying G:\Patrac_Netbeans\Patrac-ejb\target\Patrac-ejb.jar However when I attempt to run the whole application NetBeans doesn't deploy: cd G:\Patrac_Netbeans; "JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_25" "\"G:\Program Files\NetBeans 7.3.1\java\maven\bin\mvn.bat\"" -Dnetbeans.deploy=true package Scanning for projects... Reactor Build Order: PATRAC Patrac EJB module Patrac Web module Building PATRAC 1.0-SNAPSHOT ... Building Patrac EJB module 1.0 ... Building Patrac Web module 1.0 ... [war:war] Packaging webapp Assembling webapp [Patrac-web] in [G:\Patrac_Netbeans\Patrac-web\target\Patrac.war] Processing war project Copying webapp resources [G:\Patrac_Netbeans\Patrac-web\src\main\webapp] Webapp assembled in [557 msecs] Building war: G:\Patrac_Netbeans\Patrac-web\target\Patrac-web-1.0.war Reactor Summary: PATRAC - Physician Assistant Tracking ............. SUCCESS [0.043s] Patrac EJB module ................................. SUCCESS [8.100s] Patrac Web module ................................. SUCCESS [2.324s] BUILD SUCCESS Total time: 10.882s Finished at: Tue Aug 20 14:17:34 EDT 2013 Final Memory: 25M/366M Why in the world does NetBeans not deploy? Perhaps the problem is that it doesn't know where the assembled WAR is located? Looking at the output, it runs Maven from `G:\Patrac_Netbeans`, which is where the root POM is located. However the assembled WAR is located in `G:\Patrac_Netbeans\Patrac-web\target\Patrac.war`. UPDATE 8/21/2013: Fyi the plugin config was as follows: ``` <plugin> <groupId>org.jboss.as.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>jboss-as-maven-plugin</artifactId> <version>7.4.Final</version> </plugin> ``` As @happymeal correctly pointed out (see his comment, below), by simply looking at Maven's output the plugin was not running. Thanks to @James R. Perkins I realized there were actually two plugins: `jboss-maven-plugin` and `jboss-as-maven-plugin` and because I was using the latter plugin I was using the wrong goal: `jboss:deploy` instead of `jboss-as:deploy`. Correcting this mistake and rerunning the project in Netbeans the following error occurred: ``` Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: G:\Patrac_Netbeans\target\Patrac-1.0-SNAPSHOT.maven-project (The system cannot find the path specified) ``` Next, I added some configuration parameters that ultimately solved the problem: ``` <plugin> <groupId>org.jboss.as.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>jboss-as-maven-plugin</artifactId> <version>7.4.Final</version> <configuration> <force>true</force> <targetDir>G:\Patrac_Netbeans\Patrac-web\target</targetDir> <filename>Patrac-web-1.0.war</filename> </configuration> </plugin> ``` Problem solved!