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Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 23:02:39 +0200
From: Stefan Zoerner <stefan@labeo.de>
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Subject: Re: Geronimo plugin for apacheds 1.5.0
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Hi David!

Thank you very much for the detailed instructions. I will definitely try 
this out tomorrow (too late for me now). Sorry again for reporting the 
wrong version, our mails overlapped.

Greetings from Hamburg,
     Stefan

David Jencks wrote:
> 
> On Aug 10, 2007, at 1:24 PM, Stefan Zoerner wrote:
> 
>> David Jencks wrote:
>>> I thought people here might like to know that I recently updated 
>>> Geronimo's apacheds support from where it's been stuck in pre-1.0 
>>> land to 1.5.0/1.5.1 and made it a plugin for easier updating.
>>
>> This is really good news! Thanks to you, David.
>>
>> I have downloaded the current Geronimo 2.0 milestone (M6) and was able 
>> to browse to the plugin entry for ApacheDS 1.0
> 
> I didn't know about any such plugin -- where did you find it?
>>
>> Please note that the URL used in the description
>>     http://directory.apache.org/subprojects/apacheds/index.html
>> does not work any longer. Is it possible to change it to
>>     http://directory.apache.org/
>> which will likely be stable for a long time?
> 
> I don't know... I'm not sure where that plugin came from, it's not the 
> one I worked on :-)
>>
>>> It works best with geronimo trunk (I found a couple of errors in the 
>>> 2.0 plugin installer right after the release was cut) but can be made 
>>> to work in 2.0.  I expect after 2.0 is actually out we'll try to iron 
>>> out the wrinkles in the geronimo plugin system and actually release 
>>> this, it will be the first official geronimo plugin release (separate 
>>> from a server release).
>>
>> I must confess that I have not informed myself about the plugin 
>> features of G. The installation with M6 does not work, because all 
>> plugins say ("(Not available; View Details)"). Does this mean I have 
>> to build the trunk of G, as you have pointed out?
> 
> The plugin features of geronimo don't work all that well yet, and the 
> plugin I worked on for geronimo 2+ and apacheds 1.5.0 isn't released 
> yet.  It's significantly easier to get the plugin to run on geronimo 
> trunk or the branches/2.0 versions than the 
> about-to-be-officially-released (we hope) geronimo 2.0 which 
> unfortunately has a couple of bugs in the plugin installer that I 
> discovered a few minutes after the release was tagged.
> 
> Here's what to do:
> 
> geronimo: get 2.0 or build server/trunk or server/branches/2.0
> 
> plugin: check out and build plugins/directory/trunk (for apacheds 
> 1.5.1-SNAPSHOT) or plugins/directory/branches/2.0 (for apacheds 1.5.0).
> 
> make your local maven repo look like a geronimo plugin repo:  When you 
> built the plugin, maven will have copied a file geronimo-plugin.xml to  
> directory/target/classes/META-INF/geronimo-plugin.xml.  Copy this file 
> to ~/.m2/repository/geronimo-plugins.xml and edit it so it looks like:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <geronimo-plugin-list 
> xmlns="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/plugins-1.2">
> 
> <plugin>
>     <name>Apache Directory 1.5.1-SNAPSHOT for Geronimo</name>
> ...
>   </plugin>
>   
> <default-repository>file:///Users/david/.m2/repository/</default-repository> 
> 
> </geronimo-plugin-list>
> 
> If you are using geronimo 2.0, change
>     <config-xml-content>
>         <gbean xmlns="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/attributes-1.2"
>                 name="DirectoryService">
>             <attribute 
> name="configFile">var/directory/server.xml</attribute>
>         </gbean>
>     </config-xml-content>
> 
> to
>     <config-xml-content>
>         <gbean xmlns="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/attributes-1.1"
>                 name="DirectoryService">
>             <attribute 
> name="configFile">var/directory/server.xml</attribute>
>         </gbean>
>     </config-xml-content>
> 
> (different namespace)
> 
> 
> ok... now for the fireworks :-)
> Start geronimo and look in the admin console under "plugins".  Click the 
> "add new plugin repository" link and add the file:// url for your local 
> maven repo: for me it's file://Users/david/.m2/repository
> 
> Now click the Search For Plugins button and you should get a page with 
> the directory plugin shown.  If not there might be something wrong with  
> the "supported versions" in the geronimo-plugin.xml, try editiing it to 
> whatever version you are using.  Click the install buttons at the bottom 
> of the pages until if finally installs....
> 
> On branches/2.0 and trunk the plugin should install and start without 
> problems.  You can check by looking at the bottom of the System Modules 
> page.  On 2.0, you have to do some more work.
> 
> from the root of your geronimo install:
> mkdir var/directory
> cp  
> repository/org/apache/geronimo/plugins/directory/2.0-SNAPSHOT/directory-2.0-SNAPSHOT.car/META-INF/server.xml 
> var/directory/server.xml
> 
> Now you should be able to start the plugin from the system modules page 
> in the admin console.
> 
> I checked that it was working ok by using LDAP Studio to connect: I 
> could see some plausible entries and appeared to be able to add and edit 
> entries, so I figured it was working properly.
> 
> Obviously this procedure is not yet incredibly convenient :-) but I 
> think improving it is going to be an immediate focus of a couple of the 
> geronimo developers.  Having a really useful plugin will hopefully spur 
> this process on :-)
> 
> thanks!
> david jencks
> 
> 
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>     Stefan
>>
>>
> 
> 
>