Deploying Components

ContainerCmd

ContainerCmd is a helper utility provided as a part of framework. This helps component writers to start their components inside container.

A main application needs to be created which uses framework provided utility csw.framework.deploy.containercmd.ContainerCmd to start a container or standalone component. The utility supports following parameters which can be provided as arguments to the application :

• fully qualified path of the configuration file
• local if the above path is a path to a file available on local disk. If this argument is not provided the file will be looked up in the configuration service using the same path.
• standalone if the configuration file describes a component to be run in standalone mode. If this argument is not provided the application expects a configuration file describing a container component and will use it to start a container with all the components as described in the file.

Scala

object ContainerCmdApp extends App {

  ContainerCmd.start("Container-Cmd-App", args)

}

Java

public class JContainerCmdApp {

    public static void main(String args[]) {
        JContainerCmd.start("JContainer-Cmd-App", args, Optional.empty());
    }

}

Starting a standalone component from a local configuration file

`./container-cmd-app --standalone --local /assembly/config/assembly.conf`

Starting a container component from a configuration file available in configuration service

`./container-cmd-app /assembly/config/assembly.conf`

Container for deployment

A container is a component which starts one or more Components and keeps track of the components within a single JVM process. When started, the container also registers itself with the Location Service. The components to be hosted by the container is defined using a ContainerInfo model which has a set of ComponentInfo objects. It is usually described as a configuration file but can also be created programmatically.

SampleContainerInfo

name = "Sample_Container"
components: [
  {
    name = "SampleAssembly"
    componentType = assembly
    behaviorFactoryClassName = package.component.SampleAssembly
    prefix = abc.sample.prefix
    locationServiceUsage = RegisterAndTrackServices
    connections = [
      {
        name: Sample_Hcd_1
        componentType: hcd
        connectionType: akka
      },
      {
        name: Sample_Hcd_2
        componentType: hcd
        connectionType: akka
      },
      {
        name: Sample_Hcd_3
        componentType: hcd
        connectionType: akka
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    name = "Sample_Hcd_1"
    componentType = hcd
    behaviorFactoryClassName = package.component.SampleHcd
    prefix = abc.sample.prefix
    locationServiceUsage = RegisterOnly
  },
  {
    name = "Sample_Hcd_2"
    componentType: hcd
    behaviorFactoryClassName: package.component.SampleHcd
    prefix: abc.sample.prefix
    locationServiceUsage = RegisterOnly
  }
]

Standalone components

A component can be run alone in a Standalone mode without sharing its jvm space with any other component.

Sample Info for an assembly

name = "Monitor_Assembly"
componentType = assembly
behaviorFactoryClassName = csw.common.components.command.ComponentBehaviorFactoryForCommand
prefix = tcs.mobie.blue.monitor
locationServiceUsage = RegisterOnly