How can I run a batch job when start Jboss in eclipse?

Question

I use JBoss AS 5.0 with eclipse 3.6. I start Jboss inside eclipse, the problems is, eclipse start jboss by direclty calling run.jar, and I need to do some assembling job(file copying etc.) each time when I start the server, there's not where I can put this operation when I click the start button, are there any ways to run some pre-proccessing tasks before calling the main method of run.jar?

Answer 1

AFAIK, currently there is no way to attach a script to execute before running JBoss (assuming you use JBoss AS Tools ).

However, you can indirectly achieve it using below steps:

1. Write a script that does the assembling (let's call it auto-assemble.bat )
2. Select your project > menubar: Project > Properties
3. Select Builders in the left pane
4. Click New... button on the right pane
5. Select Program > OK
6. Give appropriate Name
7. Browse and select the auto-assemble.bat file > Apply > OK and close the dialog

From now on whenever you want to assemble the EAR simply do the following:

1. Make some changes to your code (optional)
2. Do Project > Clean (optional if you do step 1)
3. Do Project > Build Project (if Build Automatically is not enabled)
4. Run the JBoss