How to get current EAR location programmatically with JBoss

Question

Does anyone know how to get programmatically the absolute path in the filesystem for an EAR deployed in JBoss, from Java code within that same EAR?

I need this because I want to copy some files that are inside the EAR to another part of the filesystem, on deploy-time.

Thank you everyone!

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 26 '13 at 17:17

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you can do you "System.getProperty()" here is the link for other the properties you can used

ex:

String jBossPath = System.getProperty("jboss.server.base.dir")

result

"/Users/ALL_THE_PATH/JBoss_7-1/standelone"

After you just need to add "/deployments/YOUR_PROJECT_EAR/..."

answered Mar 26 '13 at 17:17

douarbou

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A simple and clean solution, very usefull! – TheGabiRod Jun 21 '18 at 13:56

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 06 '09 at 12:30

I do this way.
EAR has a service MyService, where I work with EAR contents:

import org.jboss.system.ServiceControllerMBean;
import org.jboss.system.ServiceMBeanSupport;

public class MyService extends ServiceMBeanSupport {

    public void workWithEar() 
    {
        ServiceControllerMBean serviceController = (ServiceControllerMBean) MBeanProxy.get(
                    ServiceControllerMBean.class,
                    ServiceControllerMBean.OBJECT_NAME, server);
        // server is ServiceMBeanSupport member

        ClassLoader cl = serviceController.getClass().getClassLoader();

        String path = cl.getResource("META-INF/jboss-service.xml").getPath()
        InputStream file = cl.getResourceAsStream("META-INF/jboss-service.xml");
    }
}

I could use a simpler way, since the class where I need that path, I'm within the EAR that holds the WAR that contains the files I want to copy. So, I just needed 1 line of code: String path = this.getClass().getClassLoader().getResource("my_war_filename.war").getPath(); Thanks! — ptdev, Aug 06 '09 at 14:12

score 3 · Answer 3 · edited Apr 27 '12 at 13:34

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To get the ServletContext from Seam, you can do:

ServletLifecycle.getCurrentServletContext()

which is available as soon as Seam has created the applicationContext. And then getRealPath("/") works fine for root context's deployment folder. Any folder structure within context root can be reached.

edited Apr 27 '12 at 13:34

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answered Feb 06 '12 at 16:41

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score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 05 '09 at 16:35

This is quite fiddly, but you can do this by querying the JBoss MainDeployer MBean. The MBean is found at jboss.system:service=MainDeployer, and has a JMX operation listDeployments. This returns a collection of DeploymentInfo objects, one of which will be your EAR deployment. That DeploymentInfo has a url property which is a file:// URL describing your deployment directory.

Nice, eh? You can use the raw JMX API to do this, but Spring provides a much nicer mechanism, using a MBeanProxyFactoryBean to expose an instance of MainDeployerMBean.

I'd like to find a simpler way, but that's the best I've found so far.

Thanks for your help! It didn't work in my case however: I'm using SeamFramework together with JBoss, and I need this code to run from a method that is annotated as @Observer("org.jboss.seam.postInitialization"), which is called when a Seam application starts. At this point I would get a MainDeployerMBean that reported: 0 deployed EARs, 0 incomplete and 0 waiting for deploy... — ptdev, Aug 06 '09 at 14:14

score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Aug 05 '09 at 17:06

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Are these resources mapped or made available under a web path (within a WAR)?

If so, you could attempt to use ServletContext.getRealPath() to translate the virtual path to the real/filesystem path.

answered Aug 05 '09 at 17:06

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Thanks for your help! It didn't work in my case however: As I stated in another comment, I'm using this in Seam startup. I couldn't find a way to get a ServletContext at this point (it would return as null). – ptdev Aug 06 '09 at 14:16

How to get current EAR location programmatically with JBoss

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