Additional Buildomatic Information

The Ant-based buildomatic scripts contain support files for the setup and configuration of a number of databases and application servers. This chapter gives the locations of many of these files.

Detailed Description of the deploy-webapp-pro Target

The deploy-webapp-pro target performs the following actions in your application server environment:

• Deletes any existing jasperserver-pro WAR file.
• Copies the JDBC driver to the appropriate application server directory.
• Copies additional JDBC drivers to the application server to support data source creation in the UI.
• Adds a data source definition to the appropriate application server directory.
• Deploys the newly built jasperserver-pro WAR file.
• Deletes files within the application server work directory (to clear out compiled JSP files and other cached files).
• On Tomcat, if present, deletes the old version of <tomcat>/conf/Catalina/Localhost/jasperserver-pro.xml.

Running Ant in Debug Mode

Ant can be run with a -v (verbose) or a -d (debug) option to help with troubleshooting, for example:

js-ant -v build-pro

Regenerate Your Buildomatic Property Settings

If you change your default_master.properties file, buildomatic automatically cleans and regenerates all configuration settings. To explicitly clean and regenerate your settings manually, run the following commands:

Commands

Description

js-ant clean-config

js-ant gen-config

Clears the buildomatic/build_conf/default directory.

Rebuilds the buildomatic/build_conf/default directory.

Anytime you modify the default_master.properties file, the configuration settings are automatically regenerated into the buildomatic/build_conf/default folder.

Using Your Own Apache Ant: Get ant-contrib.jar

If you prefer to use your own version of Apache Ant, get the file ant-contrib-1.0b3.jar. This JAR enables conditional logic in Ant scripts.

    Procedure
  1. Make sure you are using Apache Ant 1.9.4 or higher.
  2. Copy the file ant-contrib-1.0b3.jar from the <js-src>/apache-ant/lib folder to your <ant-home>/lib folder:

    From:

    <js-src>/apache-ant/lib/ant-contrib.jar

    or

    <js-src>/jasperserver/buildomatic/install_resources/extra-jars/ant-contrib.jar

    To:

    <ant-home>/lib

    (General example)

    C:\apache-ant-1.9.4\lib

    (Windows example)

    /usr/share/java/apache-ant/lib

    (Linux example)

    /usr/share/ant/lib

    (Mac example)

Generated Property Files

Once your database and application server property values are set, run buildomatic scripts to generate the database and application server configuration files to run JasperReports Server. Generated property files are in the following directory:

<js-src>/jasperserver/buildomatic/build_conf/default

Some of the key configuration files are:

js.jdbc.properties

maven_settings.xml   -   (This is the maven settings file used by the source build)

More generated property files are in the following directory:

<js-src>/jasperserver/buildomatic/build_conf/default/webapp

Some of the configuration files in this directory are:

META-INF/context.xml

WEB-INF/classes/hibernate.properties

WEB-INF/js.quartz.properties

Running clean-config removes these generated files. Running gen-config or any other target, regenerates these files.

Existing and Generated Database SQL Files

Buildomatic files that support various databases are located in:

<js-src>/jasperserver/buildomatic/install_resources/sql/<db-type>

The source code build procedure creates the jasperserver repository database schema using these files:

  • js-pro-create.ddl
  • js-pro-drop.ddl

When you run the buildomatic target build-js-ddl-pro, these database files are freshly generated for your specified database platform. The files are generated to the following location:

<js-src>/jasperserver-pro/repository-hibernate/build-db/target/sql

Then the files are automatically copied into their buildomatic directory location:

<js-src>/jasperserver/buildomatic/install_resources/sql/<db-type>

These generated files also overwrite the ones already in the buildomatic directory location.

Generated WAR File Location and deploy-webapp-pro Target

The JasperReports Server source code build creates a jasperserver-pro WAR file. The build assembles the WAR file into the following location:

<js-src>/jasperserver-pro/jasperserver-war/target

When the build-pro target is run, buildomatic assembles the jasperserver-pro WAR file, and copies the file to this location for use by subsequent buildomatic targets:

<js-src>/jasperserver/buildomatic/install_resources/war/jasperserver-pro

Later, when you run the buildomatic target deploy-webapp-pro, the following actions take place, for example on Tomcat:

Files:

<js-src>/jasperserver/buildomatic/install_resources/war/jasperserver-pro/*

Copied to:

<tomcat>/webapps

File:

<js-src>/jasperserver/buildomatic/build_conf/default/webapp/META-INF/context.xml

Copied to:

<tomcat>/webapps/jasperserver/jasperserver-pro/META-INF

Files:

<js-src>/jasperserver/buildomatic/build_conf/default/webapp/WEB-INF/classes/hibernate.properties

Copied to:

<tomcat>/webapps/jasperserver-pro/WEB-INF/classes

Files:

<js-src>/jasperserver/buildomatic/build_conf/default/webapp/WEB-INF/js.quartz.properties

Copied to:

<tomcat>/webapps/jasperserver-pro/WEB-INF/

File:

<js-src>/jasperserver/buildomatic/build_conf/db/postgresql/jdbc/postgresql-9.2-1002.jdbc4.jar

Copied to:

<tomcat>/lib

Files:

<js-src>/jasperserver/buildomatic/conf_source/db/app-srv-jdbc-drivers/*/jar

Copied to:

<tomcat>/lib

Details on Database Load Build Targets

The buildomatic targets shown below are used in Building JasperReports Server Source Code to create and populate the databases used with JasperReports Server. These targets consolidate and simplify the handling of the jasperserver database and the optional sample databases:

  • create-load-js-db-pro
  • create-load-all-dbs-pro

create-load-js-db-pro

This buildomatic target is a consolidation of the following targets:

  • drop-js-db (if necessary)
  • create-js-db
  • init-js-db-pro
  • import-minimal-pro

Additional functionality determines whether the jasperserver database exists. If so, a command-line prompt asks you if you want to delete and re-create the database.

create-load-all-dbs-pro

This buildomatic target is a consolidation of the following targets:

  • drop-js-db (if necessary)
  • create-js-db
  • init-js-db-pro
  • import-minimal-pro
  • import-sample-data-pro
  • (drop-foodmart-db, if necessary)
  • create-foodmart-db
  • load-foodmart-db
  • (drop-sugarcrm-db, if necessary)
  • create-sugarcrm-db
  • load-sugarcrm-db

Additional functionality determines whether the jasperserver database exists. If so, a command-line prompt asks you if you want to delete and re-create the database. The same logic applies for the sample databases: foodmart and sugarcrm.

General Fresh Database Schema File

The consolidated database scripts do not regenerate the database schema file. Instead the existing default database schema files are used. To regenerate the database schema files, run the following target:

js-ant build-js-ddl-pro

The files are generated to the following location:

<js-src>/jasperserver-pro/repository-hibernate/build-db/target/sql

Then the files are automatically copied into their buildomatic directory location:

<js-src>/jasperserver/buildomatic/install_resources/sql/<db-type>

Manual Creation of Databases

JasperReports Server runs with a repository database typically named jasperserver. The automated buildomatic steps create the jasperserver database and sample databases. But you can also create your databases manually.

Manually Creating Databases: PostgreSQL

You can manually run the scripts buildomatic uses to create and populate databases. Here is an example for PostgreSQL:

    Procedure
  1. To create the jasperserver database, use a client tool to log into PostgreSQL:
    cd <js-install>/buildomatic/install_resources/sql/postgresql
psql -U postgres -W
postgres=#create database jasperserver encoding=’utf8’;
postgres=#\c jasperserver;
postgres=#\i js-pro-create.ddl
postgres=#\i quartz.ddl
postgres=#\q
  2. To create the sample databases, run these commands:
    cd <js-install>/buildomatic/install_resources/sql/postgresql
psql -U postgres -W
postgres=#create database sugarcrm encoding=’utf8’;
postgres=#create database foodmart encoding=’utf8’;
postgres=#\c sugarcrm;
postgres=#\i sugarcrm-postgresql.sql; (first make sure the file is unzipped)
postgres=#\c foodmart;
postgres=#\i foodmart-postqresql.sql; (first make sure the file is unzipped)
postgres=#\i supermart-update.sql;
postgres=#\q

Additional Databases

For information on manual setup of databases other than PostgreSQL, refer to the JasperReports Server Installation Guide.