Deploying apps from GlassfishESB v2.1 to GlassfishESB v3.

There's lots of new functionality being implemented for GlassfishESB v3 as part of the Fuji research project. However a very important consideration is that existing projects that run in the current release (v2.1) will continue to work in the next major release (v3).

This how-to shows how to take a simple BPEL project from GFESBv2.1 and deploy and test it in the latest milestone release of Fuji (M8).

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I had to rush through the screencast very quickly to fit in the 5 minute limit imposed by Jing, so here's a run-down of what is happening

• Start in the GlassfishESBv2.1 environment
• I already have a simple service assembly with a HTTP BC and a BPEL SE Service Unit
• The BPEL SU simply returns "Hello <string>" for whatever string is passed to it
• Run the unit test to show it working
• The Fuji runtime does not yet support Application Variables, so I replace the variable with the hardcoded value for the HTTP Port
• Rebuild the application with the hardcoded value so it can be deployed to the Fuji runtime
  
• Stop the GFESBv2.1 server so the Fuji Server can be started and use the same ports.
  

• Milestone8 of Fuji requires the latest version of NetBeans, so start up NetBeans 6.7.1
• The Fuji Server is already installed and the plugins installed into NetBeans as described in the installation instructions.
  
• The current fuji installer doesn't include BPEL SE, so you'll need to download and install it separately (plus the saxon library it depends on)

> curl -O
http://download.java.net/maven/open-esb/fuji/components/installers/sun-saxon-library/1.0-M8/sun-saxon-library-1.0-M8.jar
> curl -O
http://download.java.net/maven/esb/open-esb/fuji/components/installers/sun-bpel-engine/1.0-M8/sun-bpel-engine-1.0-M8.jar



• Start the BPEL SE and HTTP BC components
  
• Now install the zip file for our BPEL application Service Assembly.
• start the application
• Check the the same URL for the WSDL file to ensure the server is running and the service is available

• To test the project, I've installed the SOAPUI netbeans plugin.
• Create a SOAPUI project, point it to the service, and test.