Oracle Fusion Middleware 12C: Deploy the MDS using Maven

In two previous posts here and here, I demonstrated how you can setup CI for OFM 12C projects. One of the things I hadn’t figured out yet was how I could deploy the MDS using Maven. After a vague hint on the internet, Oracle’s response that this feature wasn’t officially supported yet and some trial and error I came across the solution. It is actually quite simple.

Basically it comes down to this:

• Create a zip file of the files you want to stick into the MDS
• Use the com.oracle.soa.plugin:oracle-soa-plugin:deploy maven goal to deploy it

That wasn’t that hard as you can see 🙂 Let’s go into a bit more detail. You can use a command line to create the zip or use the maven-assembly-plugin to give you a bit more flexibility. I used the last option because I wanted to filter certain files. Within my Jenkins job, I checked out my MDS files and zipped them using the package goal into a file called sca-MDS_rev1.0.jar. Look in the plugin section in the pom file down below to see about the configuration of the assembly plugin. The pom file is just a copy of a normal soa composite project.

         
    4.0.0
    nl.cvgz
    MDS
    1.0
    sar
    
     
    
        com.oracle.soa
        sar-common
        12.1.3-0-0
    
    
    
        
        ${project.basedir}\SOA/
        ${project.basedir}/target
        ${scac.input.dir}/composite.xml
        ${scac.output.dir}/out.xml
        ${scac.output.dir}/error.txt
        1
        
        
        
         
        ${project.artifactId}
        ${project.version}
        default        
        ${oracleServerUrl}        
        ${oracleUsername}
        ${oraclePassword}
        true
        true
        false
        false
        
         
             
        
        ${scac.output.dir}/testResult
        
        ${project.artifactId}
        
        
        
    
    
        
            
                com.oracle.soa.plugin
                oracle-soa-plugin
                12.1.3-0-0
                
                    ${project.artifactId}
                    ${scac.input}
                    ${scac.output.dir}/sca-${project.artifactId}_rev${composite.revision}.jar
                    ${serverUrl}
                    ${user}
                    ${password}
                    
                    ${composite.revision}
                    ${composite.revision}
                    ${scac.input.dir}                    
                    ${input} 
                
                
                true
            
	    
	    
			maven-assembly-plugin
			2.4.1
			
				sca
				
					zip-assembly-descriptor.xml
				
			
			
				
					make-assembly
					package
					
						single
					
				
		     
		
        
    

Here is the zip-assembly-descriptor.xml

  MDS_rev1.0
  /
  
    jar
  
  
	
      ../../../GedeeldeObjecten/apps
      /
	  
        services/**
		dvm/**
      
    
	
  

As you can see I create a jar which includes my services and dvm directory. One thing to take in account is that you don’t need an apps directory in the zip. At first I created an apps directory as a top directory but when I deployed this, my MDS had a apps/apps structure so I removed this. My sca-MDS_rev1.0.jar has the following structure:

-dvm
   -MyDVM.dvm
-services
   -HelloService_1.0
       -HelloService_1.0.xsd
       -HelloService_1.0.wsdl

The only now left to do is to point the ${scac.output.dir}/sca-${project.artifactId}_rev${composite.revision}.jar in the pom to the right location where your jar file is located.

When you run the com.oracle.soa.plugin:oracle-soa-plugin:deploy goal, maven will deploy you MDS jar like this:

[INFO] --- maven-assembly-plugin:2.4.1:single (make-assembly) @ MDS ---
[INFO] Reading assembly descriptor: zip-assembly-descriptor.xml
[INFO] Building jar: D:\tomcatfiles\.jenkins\jobs\SOA - MDS\workspace\MDS\soa\MDS\target\sca-MDS_rev1.0.jar
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- oracle-soa-plugin:12.1.3-0-0:deploy (default-cli) @ MDS ---
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] ORACLE SOA MAVEN PLUGIN - DEPLOY COMPOSITE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] 
[INFO] setting user/password..., user=weblogic
Processing sar=D:\tomcatfiles\.jenkins\jobs\SOA - MDS\workspace\MDS\soa\MDS/target/sca-MDS_rev1.0.jar
Adding shared data file - D:\tomcatfiles\.jenkins\jobs\SOA - MDS\workspace\MDS\soa\MDS\target\sca-MDS_rev1.0.jar
INFO: Creating HTTP connection to host:MY_SERVER, port:7010
INFO: Received HTTP response from the server, response code=200
---->Deploying composite success.
[JENKINS] Archiving disabled
[JENKINS] Archiving disabled[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 24.313 s

[INFO] Finished at: 2015-05-23T02:59:22+02:00
[INFO] Final Memory: 36M/360M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[workspace] $ cmd /c call D:\ProgramFiles\Apache\Tomcat8.0\temp\hudson4288153212971789360.bat
channel stopped