Bug 1080487

Summary: [RFE] jboss ews cartridge should have a shared lib directory to keep user jars
Product: OpenShift Online Reporter: Nikhil Mone <nmone>
Component: ImageAssignee: Ben Parees <bparees>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: libra bugs <libra-bugs>
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Version: 1.xCC: bleanhar, dmcphers, nmone, xtian
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Description Nikhil Mone 2014-03-25 14:26:09 UTC 
Description of problem:

jboss ews cartridge should have a shared lib  directory to keep user jars

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Actual results:

jboss ews cartridge should have a share lib  directory to keep user jars. At present there is a symlink that points to :

lib -> /etc/alternatives/jbossews-2.0/lib

where all the jars are stored at node host. so only the jars present in above directory will be available to the user.


Expected results:

If the user wants his own specific jars there should be a shared lib directory.

Additional info:

To get user libs into the Tomcat lib directory, you can add onto the container classpath by modifying the `loader` properties in the `~/.openshift/config/catalina.properties` file, to for example load jars from a `${catalina.home}/webapps/lib/` directory. 

For eg :

common.loader=${catalina.base}/lib,${catalina.base}/lib/*.jar,${catalina.home}/lib,${catalina.home}/lib/*.jar
Comment 1 Ben Parees 2014-04-28 19:33:11 UTC 
Though far from ideal, as a workaround users can create their own shared_lib dir (eg under $OPENSHIFT_JBOSSEWS_DIR) and then edit the catalina.properties file to add the new dir to the load path, as mentioned above.

However it would be better if we supported a shared_lib dir in the app repo, the contents of which were then copied into a tomcat share lib dir.