nvim-wildcat is a Neovim plugin written in Lua for running Wildfly, JBoss EAP or Tomcat servers. A useful plugin for Java (or other JVM language) developers who still use the aforemention servers. The base idea was to have a plugin like Eclipse server plugin
- Ensure you have
Java
installed. Although it is a requisite to have Java to run Wildfly, JBoss EAP or Tomcat; this is the first requisite. - Ensure you have Maven installed. nvim-wildcat will throw an error by executing WildcatRun if
Maven
is not installed. - This plugin has been developed on and for Linux following open source philosophy.
Packer
use {
'javiorfo/nvim-wildcat',
requires = 'javiorfo/nvim-popcorn'
}
Lazy
{
'javiorfo/nvim-wildcat',
lazy = true,
cmd = { "WildcatRun", "WildcatUp", "WildcatInfo" },
dependencies = { 'javiorfo/nvim-popcorn' },
opts = {
-- Not necessary. Only if you want to change the setup
-- The following are the default values
console_size = 15,
jboss = {
home = "JBOSS_HOME",
app_base = "standalone/deployments",
default = true
},
tomcat = {
home = "CATALINA_HOME",
app_base = "webapps",
default = false
}
}
}
- By default these are de settings. You can modify one or multiple values in your init.lua or init.vim:
require'wildcat'.setup{
console_size = 15,
jboss = {
home = "JBOSS_HOME",
app_base = "standalone/deployments",
default = true
},
tomcat = {
home = "CATALINA_HOME",
app_base = "webapps",
default = false
}
}
- nvim-wildcat will take the 'home' values as environment variables and if they not exist, then will take the values as absolute paths.
- If wanted to set only Tomcat server as default and set an absolute path, just set it this way:
require'wildcat'.setup{
tomcat = {
home = "/path/to/tomcat",
default = true
}
}
- This command will run
mvn -q clean package
to build your app, it will deploy the war/ear in the deployments folder and it will start the server. To run it, inside the app root folder execute this command:WildcatRun
- If you want to run this command outside the app root folder, pass the path by parameter
:WildcatRun /path/to/your/app/root/folder
Command | Description |
---|---|
:WildcatClean |
This command will delete the deployed files in app base folder of the server |
:WildcatDeploy |
This command will copy the current or absolute path of a war/ear the to app base folder of the server |
:WildcatDown |
This command will stop the server |
:WildcatEnableJBoss |
This command will enable JBoss (is the default) |
:WildcatEnableTomcat |
This command will enable Tomcat |
:WildcatInfo |
This command will show info about your config (server, home, app base and deployed files) |
:WildcatRun |
This command will build with Maven, copy the war/ear file to the server and start the server |
:WildcatUp |
This command will start the server |
NOTE: The colorscheme umbra from nvim-nyctophilia is used in this image
- nvim-wilcat comes with built-in doc
:help wildcat
- When running Tomcat sometimes an execution permission is needed for catalina.sh. This will help:
[user@host ~]$ chmod +x $CATALINA_HOME/bin/catalina.sh