WildFly

Introduction

Installing Orbeon Forms on WildFly is only one of the possibilities. You can also install Orbeon Forms on other Servlet containers. You can also use Docker containers. See also:

• Docker

  • Blog post

  • Detailed documentation

• Servlet containers

  • Tomcat

  • WebLogic

  • WebSphere

  • GlassFish

Versions

WildFly was formerly known as JBoss.

The following instructions should work with recent versions of WildFly.

Deploy Orbeon Forms

To install Orbeon Forms:

1. For Orbeon Forms PE only, either:

   • place your license file under ~/.orbeon/license.xml (see License installation),
   • or add your license.xml to the orbeon.war under WEB-INF/resources/config/license.xml

2. Start a standalone server with bin/standalone.sh

3. Move the orbeon.war file into the WildFly standalone/deployments folder

4. Check whether the deployment was successful by watching standalone/log/server.log

Creating an jboss-deployment-structure.xml

With Orbeon Forms 2018.2.2 and earlier, with some versions of WildFly, a jboss-deployment-structure.xml under the Orbeon Forms WAR's WEB-INF directory is needed:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<jboss-deployment-structure xmlns="urn:jboss:deployment-structure:1.1">
    <deployment>
        <dependencies>
            <system export="true">
                <paths>
                    <path name="org/w3c/dom/css"/>             
                </paths>
            </system>
        </dependencies>
    </deployment>
</jboss-deployment-structure>

Orbeon Forms 2018.2.3 and later, as well as Orbeon Forms 2019.1, already include this descriptor.

Setup a JDBC datasource

To setup a datasource, if you'd like Orbeon Forms to connect to your relational database, do the following:

1. Setup Orbeon Forms to use a WildFly datasource (configured in the following steps):

   1. Set the oxf.fr.persistence.provider.*.*.* property in your properties-local.xml

      1. If you already created a WEB-INF/resources/config/properties-local.xml unzip it and add the property per the example below. Otherwise create that file with the following content:

         <properties xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
                     xmlns:oxf="http://www.orbeon.com/oxf/processors">
             <property as="xs:string"
                       name="oxf.fr.persistence.provider.*.*.*"
                       value="oracle"/>
         </properties>

      2. Change the value of the property according to the database you're using, setting it either to oracle, mysql, sqlserver, postgresql, or db2.

      3. Update WEB-INF/resources/config/properties-local.xml inside the orbeon.war with the version you edited.

   2. Update the web.xml

      1. Unzip the WEB-INF/web.xml inside the orbeon.war.

      2. Editing WEB-INF/web.xml, towards the end of the file, uncomment the following:

         <resource-ref>
             <description>DataSource</description>
             <res-ref-name>jdbc/oracle</res-ref-name>
             <res-type>javax.sql.DataSource</res-type>
             <res-auth>Container</res-auth>
         </resource-ref>

      3. Inside <resource-ref>, replace oracle by the name of your database.

      4. Update WEB-INF/web.xml inside the orbeon.war with the version you edited.

   3. Update the jboss-web.xml

      1. Unzip the WEB-INF/jboss-web.xml inside the orbeon.war.

      2. Editing WEB-INF/jboss-web.xml, uncomment the following:

         <resource-ref>
             <res-ref-name>jdbc/oracle</res-ref-name>
             <jndi-name>java:jboss/datasources/oracle</jndi-name>
         </resource-ref>

      3. Change the <res-ref-name> to match what the <res-ref-name> in your web.xml`.

      4. In <jndi-name>java:jboss/datasources/oracle</jndi-name>, replace oracle by the database name you used in <res-ref-name>.

      5. Update WEB-INF/jboss-web.xml inside the orbeon.war with the version you edited.

2. In WildFly, install the JDBC driver:

   1. Download the MySQL JDBC driver, say oracle-driver.jar, and place it in the standalone/deployments directory.

   2. Start the server, and check you see the message Deployed "oracle-driver.jar" (runtime-name : "oracle-driver.jar").

3. In WildFly, define the datasource:

   1. Editing standalone/configuration/standalone.xml, inside the <datasources> add the following:

      <datasource jndi-name="java:jboss/datasources/oracle" pool-name="oracle" enabled="true">
          <connection-url>…</connection-url>
          <driver>…</driver>
          <security>
              <user-name>…</user-name>
              <password>…</password>
          </security>
      </datasource>

   2. In the jndi-name attribute, replace oracle by the name of your database. The value of this attribute must match the value you set earlier inside <jndi-name> when editing the jboss-web.xml.

   3. In <connection-url>, put the JDBC URL to your database.

   4. In <driver>, put the "runtime-name" of your driver as it shows in the log (it was oracle-driver.jar in our example above).

   5. In <security>, fill in the proper username and password.

Finally, you might want to double check the configuration you just did, ensuring names match across files, per the following diagram.

Configuration files that need to be in sync