application_java Cookbook

This cookbook is designed to be able to describe and deploy Java web applications. Currently supported:

• Java
• Tomcat

Note that this cookbook provides the Java-specific bindings for the application cookbook; you will find general documentation in that cookbook.

Other application stacks may be supported at a later date.

Requirements

Chef 0.11.0 or higher required (for Chef environment use).

The following Opscode cookbooks are dependencies:

• application
• java
• tomcat

Resources/Providers

The LWRPs provided by this cookbook are not meant to be used by themselves; make sure you are familiar with the application cookbook before proceeding.

java_webapp

The java_webapp sub-resource LWRP deals with deploying Java webapps delivered as WAR files which will either be retrieved from a remote URL or fetched by some other method and referenced locally.

NOTICE: the application cookbook was designed around frameworks running on interpreted languages that are deployed in source code, checked out of an SCM using the deploy_revision resource. While this cookbook tries to map those concepts to a binary distribution mechanism, it may not map exactly.

Attribute Parameters

• database_master_role: if a role name is provided, a Chef search will be run to find a node with than role in the same environment as the current role. If a node is found, its IP address will be used when rendering the context file, but see the "Database block parameters" section below
• context_template: the name of template that will be rendered to create the context file; if specified it will be looked up in the application cookbook. Defaults to "context.xml.erb" from this cookbook
• database: a block containing additional parameters for configuring the database connection (see below)
• war: if provided, will override the default of the basename of the repository

Database block parameters

The database block can accept any method, with the following being expected by the stock context.xml.erb:

• driver: a fully-qualified class name of the JDBC driver
• host: hostname or IP address of the database server; if set it will take precedence over the address returned from the search for database_master_role
• port: port to use to connect to the database server
• database
• username
• password
• max_active: used to set the maxActive context parameter
• max_idle: used to set the maxIdle context parameter
• max_wait: used to set the maxWait context parameter

You can invoke any other method on the database block, which will result in an entry being created in the @database Hash which is passed to the context template. See the examples below for more information.

tomcat

The tomcat sub-resource LWRP configures Tomcat to run the application by creating a symbolic link to the context file.

Attributes

scm_provider

Supports all standard scm providers (git, svn), and in addition:
* Chef::Provider::RemoteFile::Deploy allows downloading from a remote url
* Chef::Provider::File::Deploy allows using a package on the filesystem

path

The target location for the application distribution. This should be outside of the tomcat deployment tree.

repository

For a git or svn repository, it is the repository URL
When using Chef::Provider::RemoteFile::Deploy, it is the URL of the remote file
When using Chef::Provider::File::Deploy, it is the path to the local file source

revision

Name of the path within releases, defaults to the checksum of the downloaded file

Usage

A sample application that needs a database connection:

application 'my-app' do
  path         '/usr/local/my-app'
  repository   '/nas/distro/my-app.war'
  revision     '...'
    scm_provider Chef::Provider::File::Deploy

  java_webapp do
    database_master_role 'database_master'
    database do
      driver     'org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver'
      database   'name'
      port       5678
      username   'user'
      password   'password'
      max_active 1
      max_idle   2
      max_wait   3
    end
  end

  tomcat
end

If your application does not need a database connection (or you need a custom context file for other reasons), you can specify your own template:

application 'jenkins' do
  path         '/usr/local/jenkins'
  owner        node['tomcat']['user']
  group        node['tomcat']['group']
  repository   'http://mirrors.jenkins-ci.org/war/latest/jenkins.war'
  revision     '6facd94e958ecf68ffd28be371b5efcb5584c885b5f32a906e477f5f62bdb518-1'
    scm_provider Chef::Provider::RemoteFile::Deploy

  java_webapp do
    context_template 'jenkins-context.xml.erb'
  end

  tomcat
end

You can invoke any method on the database block:

application 'my-app' do
  path       '/usr/local/my-app'
  repository '...'
  revision   '...'

  java_webapp do
    database_master_role 'database_master'
    database do
      database 'name'
      quorum   2
      replicas %w[Huey Dewey Louie]
    end
  end
end

The corresponding entries will be passed to the context template:

<Context docBase="<%= @war %>" path="/">
  <!-- <%= @database['quorum'] %> -->
  <!-- <%= @database['replicas'].join(',') %> -->
</Context>

License & Authors

• Author:: Adam Jacob (adam@opscode.com)
• Author:: Andrea Campi (andrea.campi@zephirworks.com)
• Author:: Jesse Campbell (hikeit@gmail.com)
• Author:: Joshua Timberman (joshua@opscode.com)
• Author:: Seth Chisamore (schisamo@opscode.com)

Copyright 2009-2013, Opscode, Inc.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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