We have our own command-line launcher for running RHQ bundle scripts, which has the following differences from the standard Ant 1.8.0 launcher:

• main-class is org.rhq.bundle.ant.AntMain, rather than org.apache.tools.ant.Main

• launcher scripts are named rhq-ant/rhq-ant.cmd, rather than ant/ant.cmd and have the following mods:

  • use RHQ_ANT_HOME, rather than ANT_HOME

  • source /etc/rhq-ant.conf and ~/.rhq/rhq-ant.conf, rather than /etc/ant.conf and ~/.rhq/ant.conf

• SourceForge AntContrib tasks and Liquibase tasks are included in $RHQ_ANT_HOME/lib/

• build file name and location are not configurable (i.e. no -f option) - build file is always rhq-bundle.xml in the current working dir

The launcher lives in the modules/common/ant-bundle module, which also contains the launcher used by the Server and Agent to parse and execute bundle scripts. To build the launcher:

RHQ_VERSION="4.7.0" # use the current version here
cd modules/common/ant-bundle
mvn package

This will produce target/rhq-ant-bundle-common-$RHQ_VERSION-SNAPSHOT.zip.

To try out the launcher, first unzip the launcher zipfile:

cd target
unzip rhq-ant-bundle-common-$RHQ_VERSION-SNAPSHOT.zip

Then build the sample bundle:

cd etc/samples/sample-bundle
mvn install

Then, (as root), execute the sample bundle's recipe as follows:

su -
RHQ="~ips/Projects/rhq"
cd $RHQ/etc//samples/provisioning/sample-bundle/target/bundle
PATH="$RHQ/modules/common/ant-bundle/target/rhq-bundle-deployer-$RHQ_VERSION-SNAPSHOT/bin:$PATH"
rhq-ant -Drhq.deploy.id=0 -Drhq.deploy.dir=/tmp/jbossas-petstore -Djboss.bind.address=0.0.0.0 \
 -Dhttp.port=7080 -Dhttps.port=7443 -debug

NOTE: root is required because the bundle recipe installs an init script under /etc/init.d/.

This should deploy the sample bundle to /tmp/jbossas-petstore/ and start up the JBoss AS instance running the Java Petstore app. Go to http://localhost:8080/petstore/ in a browser to access the app.