Building an Institutional Plugin using Maven

Overview

The purpose of this tutorial is to familiarize Kuali Rice developers with building institutional plugins that override out-of-the-box Rice services. This tutorial focuses on overriding the IdentityService as an example.

Prerequisites

1. Download Rice Foundation Codebase into <workspace>\rice-0.9.4
2. Configure Maven Repository

   Environment Variable	Description	Example
   M2_HOME	Maven Home	C:\apache-maven-2.0.9
   M2_OPTS	JVM Options	-Xms256m -Xmx512m
   M2_REPO	Repository Location	C:\JavaLib\mvnrepository

Development Environment

Build Sheet

Create Maven Project

1. At a command prompt, navigate to your <workspace> (e.g. C:\Development\KualiRice.workspace)
2. Create a web application project using the maven-archetype-quickstart archetype

   <workspace> mvn archetype:create -DgroupId=edu.ucdavis.iet.kuali.rice -DartifactId=ucd-kim-impl -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-quickstart
   

   This creates a directory named ucd-kim-impl (after the artifactId) in your <workspace>

3. Navigate to the ucd-kim-impl subdirectory and generate the Eclipse project

   <workspace>\ucd-kim-impl> mvn eclipse:eclipse
   

Import into Eclipse

1. Go to File -> Import -> Existing projects into Workspace
2. Select <workspace>\ucd-kim-impl as the root directory and click Finish

Configure POM

1. Define base properties:

   groupId	edu.ucdavis.iet.kuali.rice
   artifactId	ucd-kim-impl
   packaging	jar
   version	1.0.0
   name	ucd-kim-impl

2. Add dependency properties:

   spring.version	2.0.4
   spring-ldap.version	1.3.0.RELEASE
   commons-lang.version	2.3
   rice-api.version	0.9.4-SNAPSHOT
   rice-impl.version	0.9.4-SNAPSHOT
   db-ojb.version	1.0.4-patch2
   servlet-api.version	2.4
   xalan.version	2.4.0
   iet-ldap-widget.version	1.0.0

3. Add dependencies:
   • Spring LDAP Core
   • Spring
   • Rice API
   • Rice Implementation
   • Common Lang
   • DB OJB
   • Servlet API
   • Xalan-J
   • IET LDAP Widget
4. Add repository for Spring LDAP Core

Declare Spring Beans

Configure Dependencies on the Build Path

Method A:

1. In the Java Build Path dialog box, click on the Libraries tab
2. Click Add Variable
3. Select M2_REPO and click OK
4. Select the variable you just added and click Edit, then Extenstion
5. Select the appropriate JAR from the Maven repository hierarchy (e.g. spring-2.5.5.jar will be in org/spring/framework/spring/2.5.5)
6. Repeat for all other dependencies

   If the JAR you want is not already in your local Maven repository, you must install it using mvn:install
   For example, to install Rice API and Rice Implementation:

   mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=org.kuali.rice -DartifactId=rice-api -Dversion=0.9.4-SNAPSHOT -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=<workspace>\rice-0.9.4\api\target\rice-api-0.9.4-SNAPSHOT.jar
   

   mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=org.kuali.rice -DartifactId=rice-impl -Dversion=0.9.4-SNAPSHOT -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=<workspace>\rice-0.9.4\impl\target\rice-impl-0.9.4-SNAPSHOT.jar
   

Method B:

1. In the Java Build Path dialog box, click on the Libraries tab
2. Click Add External JARs
3. Select the appropriate JAR from your file system (e.g. C:\JavaLib\spring-framework-2.5.5\dist\spring.jar)
4. Repeat for all other dependencies
   • Method A works well if you want to perform the Maven builds yourself.
   • Method B works well if you use a continuous integration system like Bamboo to perform the Maven builds.

Build the JAR

Method A:

1. Compile the source code by selecting Project -> *Build Project (alternatively, configure Eclipse to always Build Automatically)
2. At the command prompt, create a JAR from the compiled code

   <workspace>\ucd-kim-impl> mvn jar:jar
   

   This is in lieu of com.sun.tools.javac.code.Symbol$CompletionFailure: file javax\persistence\Table.class not found error.

Deploy to local Maven Repository

Configure the Rice POM

Build the Rice WAR