grails-wildfly15

grails 3.3.11 deployment in wildfly-15.0.1.Final

Step by step

1. Environment

grails-3.3.11 framework library, JBoss wildfly-15.0.1.Final already installed.

2. Create a Grails application, then edit [grails-wildfly15/build.gradle] file dependencies like below

  dependencies {
      compile "org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-logging"
      compile "org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-autoconfigure"
      compile "org.grails:grails-core"
      compile "org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-actuator"
      // compile "org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-tomcat"
      provided "org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-tomcat"
      compile "org.grails:grails-plugin-url-mappings"
      compile "org.grails:grails-plugin-rest"
      compile "org.grails:grails-plugin-codecs"
      compile "org.grails:grails-plugin-interceptors"
      compile "org.grails:grails-plugin-services"
      compile "org.grails:grails-plugin-datasource"
      compile "org.grails:grails-plugin-databinding"
      compile "org.grails:grails-web-boot"
      compile "org.grails:grails-logging"
      compile "org.grails.plugins:cache"
      compile "org.grails.plugins:async"
      compile "org.grails.plugins:events"
      compile "org.grails.plugins:hibernate5"
      compile "org.hibernate:hibernate-core:5.1.16.Final"
      compile "org.grails.plugins:views-json"
      compile "org.grails.plugins:views-json-templates"
      console "org.grails:grails-console"
      profile "org.grails.profiles:rest-api"
      runtime "org.glassfish.web:el-impl:2.1.2-b03"
      runtime "com.h2database:h2"
      runtime "org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-jdbc"
      testCompile "org.grails:grails-gorm-testing-support"
      testCompile "org.grails:grails-datastore-rest-client"
      testCompile "org.grails:grails-web-testing-support"
      testCompile "org.grails.plugins:geb:1.1.2"
      testRuntime "org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-chrome-driver:2.47.1"
      testRuntime "org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-htmlunit-driver:2.47.1"
      testRuntime "net.sourceforge.htmlunit:htmlunit:2.18"

      // lib for jboss xml api support
      runtime 'javax.xml.bind:jaxb-api:2.2.12'
  }

Change org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-tomcat, compile to provided Add runtime 'javax.xml.bind:jaxb-api:2.2.12' dependency.

Add the following at the end of the file

war {
    archiveName = "grails-webapp.war"
}

3. Edit [grails-wildfly15/grails-app/conf/application.yml] file. just add the below content

  server:
  	   context-path: /grails-webapp

4. Go to [grails-wildfly15/src/main/webapp]

And create a folder [/WEB-INF] then within that folder create a file [jboss-web.xml] and in that file place below content

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<jboss-web version="10.0"
             xmlns="http://www.jboss.com/xml/ns/javaee"
             xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
             xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.jboss.com/xml/ns/javaee http://www.jboss.org/j2ee/schema/jboss-web_10_0.xsd">
             <context-root>/grails-webapp</context-root>
</jboss-web>

5. Create another file in [grails-wildfly15/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF] named [jboss-deployment-structure.xml] and add the content like below

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<jboss-deployment-structure xmlns="urn:jboss:deployment-structure:1.1">
    <deployment>
        <exclusions>
            <module name="org.hibernate.validator"></module>
        </exclusions>
    </deployment>
</jboss-deployment-structure>

JBoss uses its own hibernate library that may conflict with Grails hibernate library.

6. Edit the file [grails-wildfly15/grails-app/init/grails/wildfly15/Application.groovy] with content like below

  package grails.wildfly15

  import grails.boot.GrailsApp
  import grails.boot.config.GrailsAutoConfiguration
  import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.EnableAutoConfiguration
  import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.transaction.jta.*

  @EnableAutoConfiguration(exclude=[JtaAutoConfiguration])
  class Application extends GrailsAutoConfiguration {
      static void main(String[] args) {
          GrailsApp.run(Application, args)
      }
  }

7. Deployment grails-3.3.9 in JBoss wildfly-15.0.1.Final container

Go to the Grails app root folder, then apply the commands

grails clean
grails compile
grails war prod

The war file will be created in folder [grails-wildfly15/build/libs/grails-webapp.war]

8. Start wildfly-15.0.1.Final server from terminal

 /opt/wildfly-15.0.1.Final/bin/standalone.sh

And open the browser and go to the url http://127.0.0.1:9990/console/index.html Then click on Deployment tab, then browse the [grails-webapp.war] file and upload it.

You can also visit http://127.0.0.1:8080/grails-webapp