How to deploy customizations in a nuxeo instance?

[Dirk_Wenke]

Hi, I created some bundles in Nuxeo IDE to extend nuxeo features. I created them as Nuxeo Plugin Projects. In one of these bundles I made some customizations to the login screen. I did it like it was mentioned in some of the tutorials or forum threads:

• I copied the login.jsp to /src/main/resources/nuxeo.war/login.jsp
• I modified the login.jsp according to my needs. If I start the server out of Nuxeo IDE together with my bundles, everything is working properly. But now I tried to run my bundles in a separate nuxeo installation. To do that I exported my plugins out of the IDE by triggering "Nuxeo>Export JAR" from the context menu of my project. Then i copied the exported jars to /nxserver/bundles.

My other bundles are working propertly in the new nuxeo instance. But I think that my customizations are somehow overwritten by the defaults at server startup. What do I have to do to make my customizations override the defaults? The bundles created in NuxeoIDE do not contain a deployment-fragment.xml, is this the problem? If it is, what must be the content of that file?

Thanks, Dirk

[bruce_Grant · Accepted solution]

Yes you need a deployment-fragment.xml in the OSGI-INF folder. It will need to be modified to meet your requirements. For example, if you have no messages.properties to append/override then remove those lines. Best to look at the Nuxeo sources for examples of what can go in the deployment fragment.

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    
    <fragment version="1">
    	<require>all</require>
    	<install>
    		<delete path="${bundle.fileName}.tmp" />
    		<unzip from="${bundle.fileName}" to="${bundle.fileName}.tmp" />
    		<copy from="${bundle.fileName}.tmp/web/nuxeo.war" to="/" />
    
    		<append from="${bundle.fileName}.tmp/OSGI-INF/l10n/messages.properties" to="nuxeo.war/WEB-INF/classes/messages.properties"
    			addNewLine="true" />
    		<append from="${bundle.fileName}.tmp/OSGI-INF/l10n/messages_en.properties" 
to="nuxeo.war/WEB-INF/classes/messages_en.properties"
    			addNewLine="true" />
    
    		<delete path="${bundle.fileName}.tmp" />
    	</install>
    </fragment>

[Dirk_Wenke]

Thanks bruce, that worked!