[ovirt-devel] Move to Jboss Wildfly - planned for Monday, June 22nd

[Roy Golan]

On 06/18/2015 09:13 AM, Oved Ourfali wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> On Monday, June 22nd, 11:00 CET, we plan to drop JBoss 7.1 support in oVirt 3.6 and move to Jboss WildFly 8.2
> (we're still doing final verifications, but it looks promising).
>
> This will allow us to support Fedora 22 properly, and in future versions to leverage some new and cool features.
>
> In addition, Jboss WildFly 8.2 works with OpenJDK 1.8 so you can easily use it for
> development on newer distributions where OpenJDK 1.7 is not available (Fedora 21 and 22, for example).

May need a separate thread for that, but we will be able to code using 
JDK 8. its about time. jdk 8 was out April 2014.


>
> When the patch [1] is merged, you will need WildFly 8.2 to be able to develop
> oVirt engine 3.6. Please use following guideline and update your development
> environment:
>
> I. Using WildFly 8.2 for oVirt 3.6 development
>
>   1. Enable ovirt-master-snapshot-static repository on your development machine
>        [ovirt-master-snapshot-static]
>        name=Latest oVirt master additional nightly snapshot
>        baseurl=http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-master-snapshot-static/rpm/@DIST@$releasever/
>        enabled=1
>        skip_if_unavailable=1
>        gpgcheck=0
>
>      Please replace "@DIST@" with "fc" for Fedora or "el" for Centos/RHEL
>
>   2. Install WildFly packages:
>        yum install ovirt-engine-wildfly ovirt-engine-wildfly-overlay
>
>   3. Rebase your patches and build oVirt engine (assuming "~/ovirt-engine" as
>      destination)
>        make install-dev
>
>   5. Setup WildFly overlay (assuming "~/ovirt-engine" as destination)
>        echo "ENGINE_JAVA_MODULEPATH=\"/usr/share/ovirt-engine-wildfly-overlay/modules:\${ENGINE_JAVA_MODULEPATH}\"" \
>            > ~/ovirt-engine/etc/ovirt-engine/engine.conf.d/20-setup-jboss-overlay.conf
>
>   6. Execute setup
>        cd ~/ovirt-engine
>        ./bin/engine-setup
>
>   7. Start engine service
>        cd ~/ovirt-engine
>        ./share/ovirt-engine/services/ovirt-engine/ovirt-engine.py start
>
>
> II. Using JBoss 7.1.1 for 3.5 environment

why would anyone want to do that?

>
>   Using JBoss 7.1.1 on 3.5 is still possible, by doing the following:
>
>    1. Install JBoss 7.1.1 RPM from ovirt-master-snapshot-static repo using
>         yum install ovirt-engine-jboss-as
>
>    2. Build oVirt engine 3.5 with your backported feature (assuming
>       "~/ovirt-engine" as destination)
>         make install-dev
>        
>    3. Execute setup
>         cd ~/ovirt-engine
>         ./bin/engine-setup--jboss-home=/usr/share/ovirt-engine-jboss-as
>
>    4. Start engine service
>         cd ~/ovirt-engine
>         ./share/ovirt-engine/services/ovirt-engine/ovirt-engine.py start
>      
> Once merged, we will send an E-mail to make sure you're all aware, and that you can do the steps described above.
>
> We're here for any issue you might have (specifically Martin who is responsible for this effort, and myself).
> Don't hesitate to contact us for any issue, either by mail or irc (mperina or oved).
>
> Regards,
> Oved
>
> [1] https://gerrit.ovirt.org/40152
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