Getting Started with Fuse on JBoss EAP
Get started quickly with Red Hat Fuse on EAP
Abstract
Preface
To get started with Fuse, you need to download and install the files for your JBoss EAP container. The information and instructions here guide you in installing, developing, and building your first Fuse application.
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Chapter 1. Getting started with Fuse on JBoss EAP
This chapter introduces Fuse on JBoss EAP, and explains how to install, develop, and build your first Fuse application on a JBoss EAP container.
See the following topics for details:
1.1. About Fuse on JBoss EAP
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP), based on Jakarta EE technology (previously, Java EE) from the Eclipse Foundation, was originally created to address use cases for developing enterprise applications. JBoss EAP is characterized by well-defined patterns for implementing services and standardized Java APIs (for example, for persistence, messaging, security, and so on). In recent years, this technology has evolved to be more lightweight, with the introduction of CDI for dependency injection and simplified annotations for enterprise Java beans.
Distinctive features of this container technology are:
- Particularly suited to running in standalone mode.
- Many standard services (for example, persistence, messaging, security, and so on) pre-configured and provided out-of the-box.
- Application WARs typically small and lightweight (because many dependencies are pre-installed in the container).
- Standardized, backward-compatible Java APIs.
1.2. Installing Fuse on JBoss EAP
The standard installation package for Fuse 7.10 on JBoss EAP is available for download from the Red Hat Customer Portal. It installs the standard assembly of the JBoss EAP container, and provides the full Fuse technology stack.
Prerequisites
- You must have a full-subscription account on the Red Hat Customer Portal.
- You must be logged into the customer portal.
- You must have downloaded JBoss EAP.
- You must have downloaded Fuse on JBoss EAP.
- You must have downloaded the CodeReady Studio installer.
Procedure
Run the JBoss EAP installer from a shell prompt, as follows:
java -jar DOWNLOAD_LOCATION/jboss-eap-7.4.0-installer.jar
During installation:
- Accept the terms and conditions.
-
Choose your preferred installation path,
EAP_INSTALL
, for the JBoss EAP runtime. - Create an administrative user and make a careful note of these administrative user credentials for later.
- You can accept the default settings on the remaining screens.
-
Open a shell prompt and change directory to
EAP_INSTALL
. From the
EAP_INSTALL
directory, run the Fuse on EAP installer, as follows:java -jar DOWNLOAD_LOCATION/fuse-eap-installer-7.10.0.jar
Run the CodeReady Studio installer, as follows:
java -jar DOWNLOAD_LOCATION/codereadystudio-12.21.0.GA-installer-standalone.jar
During installation:
- Accept the terms and conditions.
- Choose your preferred installation path.
- Select the Java 8 JVM.
-
At the Select Platforms and Servers step, configure the JBoss EAP runtime by clicking Add and browsing to the location of the
EAP_INSTALL
directory. - At the Select Additional Features to Install step, select Red Hat Fuse Tooling.
- CodeReady Studio starts up. When the Searching for runtimes dialog appears, click OK to create the JBoss EAP runtime.
(Optional) In order to use Apache Maven from the command line, you need to install and configure Maven as described in as described in Setting up Maven locally).
NoteIf you are using CodeReady Studio exclusively, it is not strictly necessary to install Maven, because CodeReady Studio has Maven pre-installed and configured. However, if you plan to invoke Maven from the command line, you must perform this step.
1.3. Building your first Fuse application on JBoss EAP
This set of instructions assists you in building your first Fuse application on JBoss EAP.
Prerequisites
- You need a full-subscription account on the Red Hat Customer Portal.
- You must be logged into the customer portal.
- You must have downloaded and successfully installed Fuse on JBoss EAP.
- You must have downloaded and successfully installed the CodeReady Studio installer.
Procedure
In CodeReady Studio, create a new project, as follows:
- Select File→New→Fuse Integration Project.
-
In the Project Name field, enter
eap-camel
. - Click Next.
In the Select a Target Environment pane, choose the following settings:
- Select Standalone as the deployment platform.
-
Select Wildfly/Fuse on EAP as the runtime environment and use the Runtime (optional) dropdown menu to select the
JBoss EAP 7.x Runtime
server as the target runtime.
- After selecting the target runtime, the Camel Version is automatically selected for you and the field is grayed out.
- Click Next.
- In the Advanced Project Setup pane, select the Spring Bean - Spring DSL template.
Click Finish.
ImportantIf this is the first time you are building a Fuse project in CodeReady Studio, it will take several minutes for the wizard to finish generating the project. This is because it downloads dependencies from remote Maven repositories. Do not interrupt the wizard or close CodeReady Studio while the project is building in the background.
- If prompted to open the associated Fuse Integration perspective, click Yes.
- Wait while CodeReady Studio downloads required artifacts and builds the project in the background.
Deploy the project to the server, as follows:
-
In the Servers view (bottom right corner of the Fuse Integration perspective), if the server is not already started, select the
Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.3 Runtime
server and click the green arrow to start it. Wait until you see a message like the following in the Console view:
14:47:07,283 INFO [org.jboss.as] (Controller Boot Thread) WFLYSRV0025: JBoss EAP 7.3.2.GA (WildFly Core 10.1.11.Final-redhat-00001) started in 3301ms - Started 314 of 576 services (369 services are lazy, passive or on-demand)
- After the server has started, switch back to the Servers view, right-click the server and select Add and Remove from the context menu.
-
In the Add and Remove dialog, select the
eap-camel
project and click Add >. - Click Finish.
-
In the Servers view (bottom right corner of the Fuse Integration perspective), if the server is not already started, select the
Verify that the project is working, as follows:
-
Browse to the following URL to access the service running in the
eap-camel
project: http://localhost:8080/camel-test-spring?name=Kermit -
The browser window should show the response
Hello Kermit
.
-
Browse to the following URL to access the service running in the
Undeploy the project, as follows:
-
In the Servers view, select the
Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.3 Runtime
server. - Right-click the server and select Add and Remove from the context menu.
-
In the Add and Remove dialog, select your
eap-camel
project and click < Remove. - Click Finish.
-
In the Servers view, select the
Chapter 2. Setting up Maven locally
Typical Fuse application development uses Maven to build and manage projects.
The following topics describe how to set up Maven locally:
2.1. Preparing to set up Maven
Maven is a free, open source, build tool from Apache. Typically, you use Maven to build Fuse applications.
Procedure
- Download the latest version of Maven from the Maven download page.
Ensure that your system is connected to the Internet.
While building a project, the default behavior is that Maven searches external repositories and downloads the required artifacts. Maven looks for repositories that are accessible over the Internet.
You can change this behavior so that Maven searches only repositories that are on a local network. That is, Maven can run in an offline mode. In offline mode, Maven looks for artifacts in its local repository. See Section 2.3, “Using local Maven repositories”.
2.2. Adding Red Hat repositories to Maven
To access artifacts that are in Red Hat Maven repositories, you need to add those repositories to Maven’s settings.xml
file. Maven looks for the settings.xml
file in the .m2
directory of the user’s home directory. If there is not a user specified settings.xml
file, Maven uses the system-level settings.xml
file at M2_HOME/conf/settings.xml
.
Prerequisite
You know the location of the settings.xml
file in which you want to add the Red Hat repositories.
Procedure
In the settings.xml
file, add repository
elements for the Red Hat repositories as shown in this example:
<?xml version="1.0"?> <settings> <profiles> <profile> <id>extra-repos</id> <activation> <activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault> </activation> <repositories> <repository> <id>redhat-ga-repository</id> <url>https://maven.repository.redhat.com/ga</url> <releases> <enabled>true</enabled> </releases> <snapshots> <enabled>false</enabled> </snapshots> </repository> <repository> <id>redhat-ea-repository</id> <url>https://maven.repository.redhat.com/earlyaccess/all</url> <releases> <enabled>true</enabled> </releases> <snapshots> <enabled>false</enabled> </snapshots> </repository> <repository> <id>jboss-public</id> <name>JBoss Public Repository Group</name> <url>https://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/groups/public/</url> </repository> </repositories> <pluginRepositories> <pluginRepository> <id>redhat-ga-repository</id> <url>https://maven.repository.redhat.com/ga</url> <releases> <enabled>true</enabled> </releases> <snapshots> <enabled>false</enabled> </snapshots> </pluginRepository> <pluginRepository> <id>redhat-ea-repository</id> <url>https://maven.repository.redhat.com/earlyaccess/all</url> <releases> <enabled>true</enabled> </releases> <snapshots> <enabled>false</enabled> </snapshots> </pluginRepository> <pluginRepository> <id>jboss-public</id> <name>JBoss Public Repository Group</name> <url>https://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/groups/public</url> </pluginRepository> </pluginRepositories> </profile> </profiles> <activeProfiles> <activeProfile>extra-repos</activeProfile> </activeProfiles> </settings>
2.3. Using local Maven repositories
If you are running a container without an Internet connection, and you need to deploy an application that has dependencies that are not available offline, you can use the Maven dependency plug-in to download the application’s dependencies into a Maven offline repository. You can then distribute this customized Maven offline repository to machines that do not have an Internet connection.
Procedure
In the project directory that contains the
pom.xml
file, download a repository for a Maven project by running a command such as the following:mvn org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-dependency-plugin:3.1.0:go-offline -Dmaven.repo.local=/tmp/my-project
In this example, Maven dependencies and plug-ins that are required to build the project are downloaded to the
/tmp/my-project
directory.- Distribute this customized Maven offline repository internally to any machines that do not have an Internet connection.
2.4. Setting Maven mirror using environmental variables or system properties
When running the applications you need access to the artifacts that are in the Red Hat Maven repositories. These repositories are added to Maven’s settings.xml
file. Maven checks the following locations for settings.xml
file:
- looks for the specified url
-
if not found looks for
${user.home}/.m2/settings.xml
-
if not found looks for
${maven.home}/conf/settings.xml
-
if not found looks for
${M2_HOME}/conf/settings.xml
-
if no location is found, empty
org.apache.maven.settings.Settings
instance is created.
2.4.1. About Maven mirror
Maven uses a set of remote repositories to access the artifacts, which are currently not available in local repository. The list of repositories almost always contains Maven Central repository, but for Red Hat Fuse, it also contains Maven Red Hat repositories. In some cases where it is not possible or allowed to access different remote repositories, you can use a mechanism of Maven mirrors. A mirror replaces a particular repository URL with a different one, so all HTTP traffic when remote artifacts are being searched for can be directed to a single URL.
2.4.2. Adding Maven mirror to settings.xml
To set the Maven mirror, add the following section to Maven’s settings.xml
:
<mirror> <id>all</id> <mirrorOf>*</mirrorOf> <url>http://host:port/path</url> </mirror>
No mirror is used if the above section is not found in the settings.xml
file. To specify a global mirror without providing the XML configuration, you can use either system property or environmental variables.
2.4.3. Setting Maven mirror using environmental variable or system property
To set the Maven mirror using either environmental variable or system property, you can add:
-
Environmental variable called MAVEN_MIRROR_URL to
bin/setenv
file -
System property called mavenMirrorUrl to
etc/system.properties
file
2.4.4. Using Maven options to specify Maven mirror url
To use an alternate Maven mirror url, other than the one specified by environmental variables or system property, use the following maven options when running the application:
-DmavenMirrorUrl=mirrorId::mirrorUrl
for example,
-DmavenMirrorUrl=my-mirror::http://mirror.net/repository
-DmavenMirrorUrl=mirrorUrl
for example,
-DmavenMirrorUrl=http://mirror.net/repository
. In this example, the <id> of the <mirror> is just a mirror.
2.5. About Maven artifacts and coordinates
In the Maven build system, the basic building block is an artifact. After a build, the output of an artifact is typically an archive, such as a JAR or WAR file.
A key aspect of Maven is the ability to locate artifacts and manage the dependencies between them. A Maven coordinate is a set of values that identifies the location of a particular artifact. A basic coordinate has three values in the following form:
groupId:artifactId:version
Sometimes Maven augments a basic coordinate with a packaging value or with both a packaging value and a classifier value. A Maven coordinate can have any one of the following forms:
groupId:artifactId:version groupId:artifactId:packaging:version groupId:artifactId:packaging:classifier:version
Here are descriptions of the values:
- groupdId
-
Defines a scope for the name of the artifact. You would typically use all or part of a package name as a group ID. For example,
org.fusesource.example
. - artifactId
- Defines the artifact name relative to the group ID.
- version
-
Specifies the artifact’s version. A version number can have up to four parts:
n.n.n.n
, where the last part of the version number can contain non-numeric characters. For example, the last part of1.0-SNAPSHOT
is the alphanumeric substring,0-SNAPSHOT
. - packaging
-
Defines the packaged entity that is produced when you build the project. For OSGi projects, the packaging is
bundle
. The default value isjar
. - classifier
- Enables you to distinguish between artifacts that were built from the same POM, but have different content.
Elements in an artifact’s POM file define the artifact’s group ID, artifact ID, packaging, and version, as shown here:
<project ... > ... <groupId>org.fusesource.example</groupId> <artifactId>bundle-demo</artifactId> <packaging>bundle</packaging> <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version> ... </project>
To define a dependency on the preceding artifact, you would add the following dependency
element to a POM file:
<project ... > ... <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>org.fusesource.example</groupId> <artifactId>bundle-demo</artifactId> <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version> </dependency> </dependencies> ... </project>
It is not necessary to specify the bundle
package type in the preceding dependency, because a bundle is just a particular kind of JAR file and jar
is the default Maven package type. If you do need to specify the packaging type explicitly in a dependency, however, you can use the type
element.