Apache Tomcat + Maven + ContextService SDK - Deployment Issue

[rdediana]

hello folks,

I would like to get some guidance on the below issue i experienced; i was able to find a "temporary" solution / workaround however i'd like to understand how to address correctly.

My Environment:

Maven: apache-maven-3.5.0

Apache: apache-tomcat-7.0.78

Java: JDK 1.8

Context Service: SDK 2.0.1

i'm using Maven and apache plugin to build / deploy my servlet and context service resources / libs / dependencies to the web service webapp directory. however, when attempting to initialize and connect both client (ContextServiceClient) and management (ManagementConnector) instances to the Context Service i received the below error (First / Second). it wasn't until i copied the required resources "Manually" to the required location did the issues resolve.

i had to work thru two errors to resolve the issue. the project is functioning as expected, however, i'm just looking to understand if this typical or, is there a better way to manage this? what i find odd is that the plugin and connector.property resources are located OUTSIDE the servlet app directory and located with the Apache Bin directory.

First Error:

Cause:

Exception occurred while Loading the configurations

java.io.FileNotFoundException: /Users/regandediana/Development/Tomcat/apache-tomcat-7.0.78/bin/./connector.property (No such file or directory)

Resolution: manually copy "Connector.Property" file to the "Apache_Home/bin" directory.

Second Error:

Cause:

Exception occurred while Loading the configurations

java.io.IOException: Cannot find the specified path: /Users/regandediana/Development/Tomcat/apache-tomcat-7.0.78/bin/plugin

Resolution: manually copy "Plugin" director containing "context-service-sdk-extension-2.0.1.jar" file to "Apache_Home/bin" directory.

any guidance, best practices, or direction would be greatly appreciated.

Regan

[cvadnais · Accepted solution]

I believe it uses the current working directory of the process as the default to find connector.properties.  Your tomcat is likely configured to use tomcat/bin as its working directory.  If you would to reference connector.properties in another location, you may specify the path by passing it when initializing the factory.

See Cisco DevNet: Context Service - Context Service SDK Guide The example uses a relative path, but you may pass it a fully qualified path.

Also, it is not supported to run both management connector and client connector in the same java virtual machine.  See note at Cisco DevNet: Context Service - Context Service SDK Guide