Deploying your maven web apps on glassfish with jenkins

Simple deployment If you installed your Jenkins CI on the same host as the Glassfish server, this is easy. You just have to let maven do its thing and then add this shell command: /usr/local/glassfish/bin/asadmin --echo=true --host=localhost --port=4848 --user=admin --passwordfile=/secure/place/for/passwords/domain1_password --secure=false deploy --force=true --name=myproject --contextroot=/myproject target/*.war The /secure/place/for/passwords/domain1_password file should contain this: AS_ADMIN_PASSWORD=the_password Deploying different versions With parametrized builds, you can go a little further and decide, for instance, if you want to deploy the current version as the production one or not. You can switch the build as a parametrized one and add a “stable” parameter (with a default value of false), for example. ...

June 28, 2013 · Florent Clairambault