Adding Resources Examples

The add-resources goal allows you to add resources such as datsources etc to a running AS7 instance.

Adding datasources

This can be combined with the add-resource goal to automatically deploy the datasource drivers.

The example below shows how to add a datasource that uses the default h2 database:

<project>
    ...
    <build>
        ...
        <plugins>
            ...
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.jboss.as.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>jboss-as-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>${plugin.version}</version>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <id>add-datasource</id>
                        <phase>package</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>add-resource</goal>
                        </goals>
                        <configuration>
                            <address>subsystem=datasources,data-source=java:jboss/myDs</address>
                            <properties>
                                <jndi-name>java:jboss/myDs</jndi-name>
                                <enabled>true</enabled>
                                <connection-url>jdbc:h2:mem:test;DB_CLOSE_DELAY=-1</connection-url>
                                <driver-class>org.h2.Driver</driver-class>
                                <driver-name>h2</driver-name>
                                <security.user-name>sa</security.user-name>
                                <security.password>sa</security.password>
                                <pool-name>mypool</pool-name>
                            </properties>
                        </configuration>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>
            ...
        </plugins>
        ...
    </build>
...
</project>

The example below shows how to configure a postgresql XA data source, including deploying the driver. The postgresql driver module must be listed in the dependencies section of the pom.

<project>
    ...
    <build>
        ...
        <plugins>
            ...
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.jboss.as.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>jboss-as-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>${plugin.version}</version>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <id>deploy-postgresql</id>
                        <phase>package</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>deploy-artifact</goal>
                        </goals>
                        <configuration>
                            <groupId>postgresql</groupId>
                            <artifactId>postgresql</artifactId>
                            <name>postgresql.jar</name>
                        </configuration>
                    </execution>
                    <execution>
                        <id>add-datasource</id>
                        <phase>install</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>add-resource</goal>
                        </goals>
                        <configuration>
                            <address>subsystem=datasources,xa-data-source=java:jboss/datasources/postgresDS</address>
                            <properties>
                                <xa-data-source-class>org.postgresql.xa.PGXADataSource</xa-data-source-class>
                                <xa-data-source-properties>!![("DatabaseName"=>"myDatabase"),("ServerName"=>"localhost"),("User"=>"dbuser"),("Password"=>"supersecret")]</xa-data-source-properties>
                                <jndi-name>java:jboss/datasources/postgresDS</jndi-name>
                                <enabled>true</enabled>
                                <xa-datasource-class>org.postgresql.xa.PGXADataSource</xa-datasource-class>
                                <pool-name>myPool</pool-name>
                                <driver-name>postgresql.jar</driver-name>
                            </properties>
                        </configuration>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>
            ...
        </plugins>
        ...
    </build>
...
</project>

The xml tags in the properties element correspond directly to the DMR nodes in the corresponding management operation. If you need to use DMR nodes of a non-primitive type then you must prefix the value with the !! escape sequence, which will cause the value to be interpreted as a string representation of a DMR node. For example in the xa-data-source-properties element about xa-datasource-properties is a DMR property list.

Adding other resources

It is also possible to deploy resources other than datasources, the example below shows how to deploy a JMS queue:

<project>
    ...
    <build>
        ...
        <plugins>
            ...
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.jboss.as.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>jboss-as-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>${plugin.version}</version>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <id>add-jms-queue</id>
                        <phase>install</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>add-resource</goal>
                        </goals>
                        <configuration>
                            <address>subsystem=messaging,jms-queue=myJmsQueue</address>
                            <properties>
                                <durable>true</durable>
                                <entries>!!["java:jboss/myJmsQueue", "java:jboss/myJmsQueueAlias"]</entries>
                            </properties>
                        </configuration>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>
            ...
        </plugins>
        ...
    </build>
...
</project>