Using Apache OpenWebBeans with Apache Tomcat

This article is about how to configure Apache Tomcat 6 or 7 to use OpenWebBeans based dependency injection.

What is Apache  OpenWebBeans?

OpenWebBeans is an ASL 2.0-licensed implementation of the JSR-299, Contexts and Dependency Injection for the Java EE platform. Project's web page can be found at, "http://openwebbeans.apache.org"

• Download Apache OpenWebBeans 1.0.0-alpha-1/ , http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/openwebbeans.
• Download Apache Tomcat 6 or 7, http://tomcat.apache.org/

Let's says that you have unzipped/untar OpenWebBeans into directroy /owb/ and Tomcat to /tomcat/. You have to copy some libraries to tomcat lib/ folder,

• Copy /owb/api/geronimo-atinject_1.0_spec-1.0.jar to /tomcat/lib
• Copy /owb/api/geronimo-jcdi_1.0_spec-1.0.jar to /tomcat/lib
• Download geronimo-interceptor_1.1_spec-1.0.jar from  http://tiny.cc/4exgy and put into /tomcat/lib
• Copy /owb/spi/openwebbeans-spi-1.0.0-alpha-1.jar to /tomcat/lib
• Copy /owb/plugins/openwebbeans-tomcat6-1.0.0-alpha-1.jar to /tomcat/lib (For Tomcat 6)
• Copy /owb/plugins/openwebbeans-tomcat7-1.0.0-alpha-1.jar to /tomcat/lib/ (For Tomcat 7)
• Open /tomcat/conf/server.xml, add lifecycle listener as follows under "server" element

<Listener className="org.apache.webbeans.web.tomcat.ContextLifecycleListener" />

That is it! Configuration is ready to deploy your next JSR-299 Web Application to Apache Tomcat.

Sample Applications

Look at OWB SVN for Tomcat samples,

• Tomcat 6 Sample : http://tiny.cc/hloj7
• Tomcat 7 Sample : http://tiny.cc/o6let

Using Maven

If you wish to use OpenWebBeans with Maven, just put the following entries to your  web application pom.xml for Tomcat 6,

    <dependencies>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.openwebbeans</groupId>
            <artifactId>openwebbeans-impl</artifactId>
            <version>1.0.0-alpha-1</version>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.geronimo.specs</groupId>
            <artifactId>geronimo-interceptor_1.1_spec</artifactId>
            <version>1.0</version>
        </dependency>


        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.openwebbeans</groupId>
            <artifactId>openwebbeans-web</artifactId>
            <version>1.0.0-alpha-1</version>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.geronimo.specs</groupId>
            <artifactId>geronimo-servlet_2.5_spec</artifactId>
            <scope>provided</scope>
            <version>1.2</version>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.openwebbeans</groupId>
            <artifactId>openwebbeans-ee-common</artifactId>
            <version>1.0.0-alpha-1</version>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.geronimo.specs</groupId>
            <artifactId>geronimo-jcdi_1.0_spec</artifactId>
            <scope>provided</scope>
            <version>1.0</version>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.geronimo.specs</groupId>
            <artifactId>geronimo-atinject_1.0_spec</artifactId>
            <scope>provided</scope>
            <version>1.0</version>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.openwebbeans</groupId>
            <artifactId>openwebbeans-spi</artifactId>
            <version>1.0.0-alpha-1</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.openwebbeans</groupId>
            <artifactId>openwebbeans-el10</artifactId>
            <version>1.0.0-alpha-1</version>
        </dependency>

   <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.openwebbeans</groupId>
            <artifactId>openwebbeans-resource</artifactId>
            <version>1.0.0-alpha-1</version>
        </dependency>

    </dependencies>

For Tomcat 7 maven configuration,

    <dependencies>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.openwebbeans</groupId>
            <artifactId>openwebbeans-impl</artifactId>
            <version>1.0.0-alpha-1</version>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.geronimo.specs</groupId>
            <artifactId>geronimo-interceptor_1.1_spec</artifactId>
            <version>1.0</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>


        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.openwebbeans</groupId>
            <artifactId>openwebbeans-web</artifactId>
            <version>1.0.0-alpha-1</version>
        </dependency>

         <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.geronimo.specs</groupId>
            <artifactId>geronimo-servlet_3.0_spec</artifactId>
            <version>1.0</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.openwebbeans</groupId>
            <artifactId>openwebbeans-ee-common</artifactId>
            <version>1.0.0-alpha-1</version>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.geronimo.specs</groupId>
            <artifactId>geronimo-jcdi_1.0_spec</artifactId>
            <scope>provided</scope>
            <version>1.0</version>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.geronimo.specs</groupId>
            <artifactId>geronimo-atinject_1.0_spec</artifactId>
            <scope>provided</scope>
            <version>1.0</version>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.openwebbeans</groupId>
            <artifactId>openwebbeans-spi</artifactId>
            <version>1.0.0-alpha-1</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>
       
       <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.openwebbeans</groupId>
            <artifactId>openwebbeans-resource</artifactId>
            <version>1.0.0-alpha-1</version>
        </dependency>


    </dependencies>

  That is it!

   Enjoy!

OpenWebBeans User and Development Mailing Lists

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about the OpenWebBeans.

User Mailing List : [users@openwebbeans.apache.org]

You can also join the discussions happening in the dev list

Dev Mailing List  : [dev@openwebbeans.apache.org]

OpenWebBeans JIRA Page
Please logs bugs into the "https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OWB".

OpenWebBeans Web Page
You can reach the OpenWebBeans web page at, http://openwebbeans.apache.org
 

Gurkan Erdogdu

ASF Member,http://apache.org

PMC Chair, Apache OpenWebBeans

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