adding jars as deployment in WildFly 10

Question

Is there a way, we can deploy jars as a library/deployment in WildFly 10 like we can do it in weblogic server?. OR can we place the jars in any folder of server and define those dependencies as provided?

Levona

Answer 1

What I got the way to deploy jars on WildFly 10 server rather than making part of the war file is define below:

1) Put all your jars in wildfly\modules\system\layers\base\com\abcProject\main and place a file named module.xml with the following content:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<module xmlns="urn:jboss:module:1.3" name="com.abcProject">
<resources>
    <resource-root path="aspectjrt-1.6.8.jar"/>
    <resource-root path="aspectjweaver-1.6.8.jar"/>
    <resource-root path="aopalliance-1.0.jar"/>
    <resource-root path="guava-18.0.jar"/>
</resources>

<dependencies>
    <module name="javaee.api"/>
    <module name="org.apache.commons.logging"/>
    <module name="org.jboss.vfs"/>
</dependencies>

Where resources are all those jars present in your abcProject/main folder and dependencies are all those jars on which your jars are dependent and are present in wildfly\modules\system\layers\base folders.

2) Then in your project add a file named jboss-deployment-structure.xml in WEB-INF folder with the following conents:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<jboss-deployment-structure xmlns="urn:jboss:deployment-structure:1.2" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<deployment>
    <dependencies>
        <module name="com.abcProject" >
            <imports>
                <include path="META-INF**"/>
                <include path="org**"/>
            </imports>
        </module>
    </dependencies>
</deployment>

3) Now set scope of all those dependencies in your pom files as provided that you have placed jars in abcProject/main folder.

That's all now run your project it will get all jars from server and will not include in war file during compilation.

Levona

Are we sure this is an optimal answer? You can define modules in the deployment folders directly. I dont think it is optimal to add modules to the wildfly system folder, which is akin to adding jars to the JRE's lib folder. – Silvas

But then can you define multiple modules in standalone deployment folder? Can you provide me a link for it's implementation? Thanks. – Levona

Answer 2

To add external jars as a "library" in Jboss/Wildfly, you can define it as a module in your installation, or add it to an existing module.

See this link for more details on how to add a module in Wildfly.

Specific

Ok but then will I remove the all dependencies like spring etc or write it with provided scope? – Levona

I actually want to make a war file of all my jars and deploy on server, can it be done? – Levona

Yes, you can remove the dependencies from the EAR by specifiying a provided scope in the POM. I'm not sure about the global war file, you can however specify multiple jars in one jboss module (#14746478) – Specific

Ok @Leo Thanks. I will try this approach too and will search for war module. – Levona