JBoss EAR deployment order

Question

I have 5 EARs that need to be deployed. One of them, local-configuration-ear-0.3.5-SNAPSHOT.ear, is a dependency of all the others, and they require it at deployment time, i.e. local-configuration-ear-0.3.5-SNAPSHOT.ear needs to be deployed first. All 5 of the EARs are located in the deployments folder.

I read here that I can use jboss-deployment-structure.xml to manage the order of EAR deployment, but I ran into some issues. The file I made looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<jboss-deployment-structure>
   <deployment>
       <dependencies>
           <module name="deployment.local-configuration-ear-0.3.5-SNAPSHOT.ear" />
       </dependencies>
   </deployment>
</jboss-deployment-structure>

but after deploying the EAR with this descriptor, I received the following error:

15:01:29,752 ERROR [org.jboss.msc.service.fail] (MSC service thread 1-2) MSC00001: Failed to start service jboss.module.service."deployment.asterix-connector-ear-0.3.5-SNAPSHOT.ear".main: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in s ervice jboss.module.service."deployment.asterix-connector-ear-0.3.5-SNAPSHOT.ear".main: Failed to load module: deployment.asterix-connector-ear-0.3.5-SNAPSHOT.ear:main
    at org.jboss.as.server.moduleservice.ModuleLoadService.start(ModuleLoadService.java:91) [jboss-as-server-7.1.1.Final.jar:7.1.1.Final]
    at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.startService(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1811) [jboss-msc-1.0.2.GA.jar:1.0.2.GA]
    at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1746) [jboss-msc-1.0.2.GA.jar:1.0.2.GA]
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1146) [rt.jar:1.6.0_24]
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) [rt.jar:1.6.0_24]
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:679) [rt.jar:1.6.0_24]
Caused by: org.jboss.modules.ModuleNotFoundException: deployment.local-configuration-ear-0.3.5-SNAPSHOT:main
    at org.jboss.modules.Module.addPaths(Module.java:854)
    at org.jboss.modules.Module.link(Module.java:1181)
    at org.jboss.modules.Module.relink(Module.java:1211)
    at org.jboss.modules.ModuleLoader.relink(ModuleLoader.java:445)
    at org.jboss.as.server.moduleservice.ServiceModuleLoader.relinkModule(ServiceModuleLoader.java:204) [jboss-as-server-7.1.1.Final.jar:7.1.1.Final]
    at org.jboss.as.server.moduleservice.ModuleLoadService.start(ModuleLoadService.java:71) [jboss-as-server-7.1.1.Final.jar:7.1.1.Final]
    ... 5 more

What am I doing wrong and is there a way to generate jboss-deployment-structure.xml using Maven so that I can append a version number to my EAR file name programatically?

EDIT:

I also tried adding a jboss-all.xml file to META-INF, but it didn't help:

<jboss umlns="urn:jboss:1.0">
    <jboss-deployment-dependencies xmlns="urn:jboss:deployment-dependencies:1.0">
        <dependency name="local-configuration-ear-${project.version}.ear" />
    </jboss-deployment-dependencies>
</jboss>

-with <filtering>true</filtering> in the maven-ear-plugin configuration. I checked inside the EAR archive, and the project version is set correctly, but the artefacts are still sometimes deployed in the incorrect order.

Answer 1

That link describes how to do deployment order inside EAR not between two ears.

You should be configuring jboss-all.xml with deployment dependencies.

content should look something like this:

<jboss umlns="urn:jboss:1.0">
    <jboss-deployment-dependencies xmlns="urn:jboss:deployment-dependencies:1.0">
        <dependency name="app1.ear" />
        <dependency name="app2.ear" />
        <dependency name="app3.ear" />
    </jboss-deployment-dependencies>
</jboss>

and add this to all your ears but make sure you don't do cyclic deps.