Developing CAS in Eclipse

Edit and Debug

Maven is Best Practice

• Compile and Zip WAR file with Maven 2– Manage “dependencies” (external JARs from

other software libraries or products)– Run tests to validate each change cycle– Build JAR, WAR, or other standard “artifacts”

• Edit with Eclipse– Syntax and help for Java and XML– Widely used, modularly extensible IDE

• How about simple testing with Eclipse?

Maven Compile

Main POM

Core project source + POM

Option project source + POM

Option project source + POM

Option project source + POM

artifact jarartifact jarartifact jarartifact jar

Top level Maven POMoptional projects are compiled

<modules><module>cas-server-core</module><module>cas-server-support-generic</module><module>cas-server-support-jdbc</module><module>cas-server-support-ldap</module><module>cas-server-support-openid</module><module>cas-server-support-radius</module><module>cas-server-support-spnego</module><module>cas-server-support-trusted</module><module>cas-server-support-x509</module><module>cas-server-integration-jboss</module><module>cas-server-webapp</module></modules>

Options

Java Subproject POM <artifactId>cas-server-support-trusted</artifactId>

<packaging>jar</packaging><dependencies><dependency> <groupId>org.jasig.cas</groupId> <artifactId>cas-server-core</artifactId> <version>${project.version}</version> </dependency> <dependency>

<groupId>cas</groupId> <artifactId>casclient</artifactId> <version>2.1.1</version> </dependency>

JAR for Compile

Generated result

Maven build WAR

Main POM

webapp HTML + POM

artifact jarartifact jarartifact jarartifact jar cas.war

WEB-INF/lib

cas-server-webapp/pom.xmlcore required, add option JARs

<dependency><groupId>org.jasig.cas</groupId><artifactId>cas-server-core</artifactId><version>${project.version}</version></dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.jasig.cas</groupId> <artifactId>cas-server-support-trusted</artifactId> <version>${project.version}</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.jasig.cas</groupId> <artifactId>cas-server-support-x509</artifactId> <version>${project.version}</version> </dependency>

Default is core only

Addoptionartifactsyou choose

Eclipse “workspace”, CAS “project”Maven projects

Main POM

subproject

subproject

subproject

CAS3xx [Eclipse project]

{$home}/workspace

Assume You Know How

• Install current Java• Install Apache Tomcat• Install and use Maven 2.0.9

Because this is all part of the standard CAS development instructions.

Fork In the Road

Eclipse Web Standard Tools

• Free• Part of Eclipse project• Open source• New release each June• Independent plugins don’t

work smoothly together

MyEclipse

• $31.75 /year• Genuitec.com• Includes WST, plus Spring,

WS, Hibernate, JPA, …• A particular group of plugins

have been integrated

WST Debugging

Tomcatdirectory

Eclipse

CAS classes

Webproject

Servers/conf

Tomcat process

MyEclipse

Eclipse

CAS Project

Tomcat, JBoss, …

WebContent

WEB-INF/classes

Java Source

/webapps or /deploy

By any other Name

• A “project” in Eclipse or Maven is a directory with source subdirectories that can be compiled to produce a JAR file or zipped up to produce a WAR file

• A “Java Project” has source to compile. It can produce a program or a JAR library.

• A “static Web project” is a bunch of HTML, CSS, and image files that you can deploy to any Web Server. It has no Java.

By Any Other Name

• A “dynamic Web application project” has a WEB-INF subdirectory with a web.xml file

• A “WAR file” is a zipped up copy of the dynamic Web application, but the unzipped directory is also sometimes called a WAR too.

• A “context” is the runtime environment created by the Web server to run the code in a dynamic Web application

Ganymede WST

• Dynamic Web projects can only be created empty. A Java SE project cannot be converted into a dynamic Web project. The JA-SIG CAS source is an ordinary Java SE source project.

• Create an empty dynamic Web project. Copy the cas-server-webapp contents. Configure the CAS project as a “library module” for the Web project . Finally, copy external JAR dependencies into the WEB-INF/lib.

WST Runtime Magic

• <Context docBase="casx" path="/casx“ source="org.eclipse.jst.jee.server:casx"/>

• Get files from the dynamic Web project dir.• Get classes from the CAS compiler output

directory.• No support for Maven dependencies.

Create WST project

Tomcatdirectory

Eclipse

Library Project(CAS source)

dynamic webproject (WAR)

Tomcat/conf

copy from cas-server-webapp projectthe src/main/webapp files andtarget/cas-server-webapp-3.3/WEB-INF/lib jars

new dynamic Web proj

Server

MyEclipse

• Good News: MyEclipse can add “dynamic Web application” behavior to an existing Java (SE) project.

• Bad News: MyEclipse uses the WEB-INF/classes directory as a build work area, so the WebContent directory can’t be in cas-server-webapp

• Copy cas-server-webapp source to an new WebContent directory

MyEclipse Deployment

• Web application is copied to the real external {tomcat}/webapps directory and the real external server configuration is started

• Tomcat runs with normal environment, under with Eclipse debugging

• Any problems can be fixed by standard Tomcat documentation and configuration

• Application can also run under Tomcat without Eclipse

Download Ganymede EE from www.eclipse.org/downloads

Download MyEclipse 7.0 (M2 or later)

Common Steps

Add update sites

Help – Software Updates – Available Software

Subversion

EclipseSubversion

TeamProvider

PolarionSubversive

SVNConnectors

Windows-onlyNative Java 1.5 HL

1.5 HL Win32 binaries

Unix or WindowsSVNKit 1.2.0

SVN Repository Exploring

Checkout

• JA-SIG source repository looks like a tree of projects

• Select the trunk or a tagged release and check out as a Java (SE) project

Update Dependencies

Maven: cas-server-core is a “project”Eclipse: cas-server-core/src/main/java is a “src dir”

Build Path (GUI to .classpath)

Build Path (GUI to .classpath)

Package Explorer - Libraries

WST in Ganymede EE

WST New Dynamic Web Project

New Dynamic Web Project Wizard

Cut and Paste

• Copy (cut and paste) the Web application files (cas-server-webapp/src/main/webapp/*) from the CAS source project to the WebContent directory of the new dynamic Web project

• Click OK to replace the generated web.xml file in WEB-INF

WST Java EE Module Dependencies

Get the POM dependencies

• “cd” to Workspace, CAS source project directory

• run “mvn install” command• Refresh the Eclipse view of the project.• Go to cas-server-webapp/target/cas-server-

webapp-3.3/WEB-INF/lib• Copy all the external JAR files (exclude the

cas-server-*.jar files) to the WEB-INF/lib of the new dynamic Web project

Validation

• WST has validators for HTML, XML, etc.• Some CAS source files fail validation (headers,

footers, etc.)• In WST, only option is to disable validation for

the entire project.

MyEclipse

Add Web Project Capabilitiesto existing CAS project

MyEclipse Wizard

Adding Web capabilities

• MyEclipse changes the default compiler output directory to WebContent/WEB-INF/classes

• MyEclipse adds its editors and syntax filters to the project

• MyEclipse adds the J2EE (1.4 or 5) package of libraries to the compiler classpath

• There are now HTML and XML files with “errors”. [Right click the directories, select MyEclipse, Exclude from Validation]

J2EE 1.4 Libraries

Sanity Check

• cas-server-webapp – will be used as the source for Maven – should reflect your production environment

(probably on another host)– is associated through SVN to the ja-sig source

• WebContent – used by Eclipse (tell SVN to ignore it)– reflects your local test Tomcat environment

WEB-INF/classes

• Source directories are compiled and classes are stored here

• Data files (resources) are copied here• add “cas-server-webapp/src/main/webapp/

WEB-INF/classes” as a MyEclipse “source” directory to get *.properties files

• Put JUnit class files someplace else (/test-bin)

Select one or more J2EE App Servers

Exploded deployments are changed “on the fly” after save and compile.

Application Server Buttons

Manuallyredeploy

Run Application Server(Tomcat)

Start the Server