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The Liberty Gradle plugin supports install and operational control of Liberty runtime and servers. Use it to manage your application on Liberty for integration test and to create Liberty server packages.

• Build
• Usage
• Plugin Configuration
• Tasks

Build

Clone this repository and then, with a JRE on the path, execute the following command in the root directory.

$ ./gradlew build

This will download Gradle and then build the plugin liberty-gradle-plugin-2.0.jar in to the build\libs directory. It is also possible to install the plugin in to your local Maven repository using gradlew install.

To build the plugin and run the integration tests execute the following commands in the root directory.

1. To run the integration tests using an existing Liberty server installation.

$ ./gradlew build -Prunit=offline -DwlpInstallDir=<liberty_install_directory>

2. To run the integration tests against an automatically downloaded and installed Liberty server. The wlpLicense parameter is only needed for Liberty packaged as a JAR file.

$ ./gradlew build -Prunit=online -DwlpLicense=<liberty_licesnse_code> -DwlpVersion=<liberty_version>

Usage

Adding the plugin to the build script

Within your Gradle build script, you need to set up the classpath to include the Liberty Gradle plugin. You also need to define the Maven Central repository to find the plugin and its dependencies.

If you are using a snapshot version of the plugin make sure to define the Sonatype Nexus Snapshots repository in addition to the Maven Central repository.

Your build script should look like this:

buildscript {
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
        maven {
            name = 'Sonatype Nexus Snapshots'
            url = 'https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/'
        }
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'net.wasdev.wlp.gradle.plugins:liberty-gradle-plugin:2.1.1-SNAPSHOT'
    }
}

To use the Liberty Gradle Plugin, include the following code in your build script:

apply plugin: 'liberty'

Plugin Configuration

See the Liberty extension properties reference for the properties used to configure the Liberty plugin. See each task for additional configuration and examples.

Tasks

The Liberty plugin provides the following tasks for your project:

Task	Description
cleanDirs	Cleans the Liberty server logs, workarea, and applications folders.
installLiberty	Installs the Liberty runtime from a repository.
libertyCreate	Creates a Liberty server.
installFeature	Installs an additional feature to the Liberty runtime.
uninstallFeature	Remove a feature from the Liberty runtime.
installApps	Copy applications generated by the Gradle project to a Liberty server's dropins or apps directory. The server can be stopped or started for this task.
libertyStart	Starts the Liberty server in a background process.
libertyStop	Stops the Liberty server.
libertyRun	Runs a Liberty server in the Gradle foreground process.
libertyPackage	Packages a Liberty server.
libertyDump	Dumps diagnostic information from the Liberty server into an archive.
libertyJavaDump	Dumps diagnostic information from the Liberty server JVM.
libertyDebug	Runs the Liberty server in the console foreground after a debugger connects to the debug port (default: 7777).
libertyStatus	Checks to see if the Liberty server is running.
deploy	Deploys a supported file to a running Liberty server.
undeploy	Removes an application from the Liberty server.
compileJsp	Compiles the JSP files from the src/main/webapp directory into the build/classes directory.

Task ordering

The Liberty Gradle plugin defines a built-in task order to allow a user to call an end task without worrying about calling the necessary tasks in between. By having the plugin manage tasks and their order of execution we can easily avoid some simple human errors. For example, in order to have a majority of the tasks function, the principal task installLiberty must be called, which our plugin would do for you.

The most appealing benefit from defining a task order is the ability to allow the user to call an end task directly. For example, if the user calls libertyStart out of the box, Gradle will recognize that it must call installLiberty -> libertyCreate -> installFeature -> installApps to get a server with features and apps properly running.

Click on a task to view what it depends on.