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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

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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>

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

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

      1. Update the web.xml

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

    4. 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>

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

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

      1. Update the jboss-web.xml

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

    8. 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>

    9. Change the <res-ref-name> to match what the <res-ref-name> in yourweb.xml`.

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

    11. 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>

    1. 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.

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

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

    4. 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

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With JBoss 6

  1. Assuming that JBOSS_HOME represents the location of your JBoss installation: create a new JBOSS_HOME/server/default/deploy/orbeon.war directory.

  2. Unzip the orbeon.war file in the orbeon.war directory you just created.

  3. Depending on the version of JBoss you are using:

    • Create a file orbeon.war/WEB-INF/jboss-scanning.xml with the following content. This is get around a bug happening in the JBoss scanner when it goes through Scala classes. With Orbeon Forms 3.9:

      Make sure you replace scala-library-*.jar with the actual version number in WEB-INF/lib. NOTE: Orbeon Forms 4.0 already includes this setting.

    • Edit orbeon.war/WEB-INF/jboss-web.xml and comment the 4 lines that start with <resource-ref> and end with </resource-ref>. This resource-ref is only useful if you want to setup Orbeon Forms to store data in a relational database. If this is the first time you are installing Orbeon Forms on JBoss, even if you ultimately want Orbeon Forms to store data in a relation database, we recommend you first get it up and running without this configuration. Once everything works, you can come back, uncomment this, and follow the steps in point #7 below to get Orbeon Forms to access your relational database.

  4. Start JBoss by running JBOSS_HOME/bin/run.bat (or run.sh on UNIX).

  5. Run and modify the example applications.

    1. Go to http://localhost:8080/orbeon/

    2. You can modify the example applications resources as the application sever is running and see the results of your modifications on the fly. The resources are stored under JBOSS_HOME/server/default/deploy/orbeon.war/WEB-INF/resources.

  6. Optionally, to run the authentication sample: 1. Open JBOSS_HOME/server/default/deploy/orbeon.war/WEB-INF/web.xml and uncomment the security-constraint, login-config and security-role declarations at the end of the file. 2. Open JBOSS_HOME/server/default/deploy/orbeon.war/WEB-INF/jboss-web.xml and uncomment the security-domain element near the end of bottom of the file. 3. Open JBOSS_HOME/server/default/conf/login-config.xml and add the following aplication policy to the list of policies:

  7. Optionally, you might want to setup a JDBC data source if your application is using the SQL Processor. What follows assumes you are configuring the SQL Processor with <sql:datasource>my-datasource</sql:datasource>.

    1. Look at the files JBOSS_HOME/docs/examples/jca/*-ds.xml. You should find one that correspond to the database you are using. Copy it to JBOSS_HOME/server/default/deploy.

    2. Edit the file you copied and change the parameters to match your database configuration. Also assign a JNDI name to this data source with: <jndi-name>my-database</jndi-name> (instead of my-database you might want to use a name which is descriptive of your database).

    3. Edit WEB-INF/web.xml and uncomment the <resource-ref>. Also change there the content of <res-ref-name> to match the name you are using in the SQL Processor prefixed with jdbc/: <res-ref-name>jdbc/my-datasource</res-ref-name>.

    4. Edit WEB-INF/jboss-web.xml. In that file you should have <res-ref-name>jdbc/my-datasource</res-ref-name> (the same name you use to configure the SQL Processor and that you have in the web.xml) and <jndi-name>java:/my-database</jndi-name> (the same name you declared in the ...-ds.xml file).

    5. Copy the JAR files with the JDBC driver for your database in JBOSS_HOME/server/default/lib.

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