10 Administering Life Cycle Modules

This chapter provides procedures for administering life cycle modules in the Oracle GlassFish Server 3.1.2 environment.

The following topics are addressed here:

About Life Cycle Modules
Configuring Life Cycle Modules

Instructions for accomplishing the tasks in this chapter by using the Administration Console are contained in the Administration Console online help.

About Life Cycle Modules

Life cycle modules, also known as initialization services, provide a means of running short or long duration Java-based tasks within the GlassFish Server environment. These modules are automatically initiated at server startup and are notified at various phases of the server life cycle. Configured properties for a life cycle module are passed as properties during server initialization.

All life cycle module classes and interfaces are in the as-install/modules/glassfish-api.jar file.

A life cycle module listens for and performs its tasks in response to the following GlassFish Server sequence of events:

Initialization. The server reads the configuration, initializes built-in subsystems (such as security and logging services), and creates the containers.
Startup. The server loads and initializes deployed applications.
Ready. The server begins servicing requests.
Shutdown. The server shuts down the applications and stops.
Termination. The server closes the containers, the built-in subsystems, and the server runtime environment.

These events are defined in the LifecycleEvent class. For information on creating life cycle modules, see "Developing Lifecycle Listeners" in Oracle GlassFish Server Application Development Guide.

Note:

If the is-failure-fatal setting is set to true (the default is false), life cycle module failure prevents server initialization or startup, but not shutdown or termination.

Configuring Life Cycle Modules

The following topics are addressed here:

To Create a Life Cycle Module
To List Life Cycle Modules
To Update a Life Cycle Module
To Delete a Life Cycle Module

To Create a Life Cycle Module

Use the create-lifecycle-module subcommand in remote mode to create a life cycle module.

Ensure that the server is running.

Remote subcommands require a running server.
Create a new life cycle modules by using the create-lifecycle-module subcommand.

Information about options and properties for the subcommand are included in this help page.
Restart the server for your changes to take effect.

See To Restart a Domain.

Example 10-1 Creating a Life Cycle Module

This example creates the customSetup life cycle module :

asadmin> create-lifecycle-module --classname "com.acme.CustomSetup" 
--classpath "/export/customSetup" --loadorder 1 --failurefatal=true 
--description "this is a sample customSetup" 
--property rmi="Server\=acme1\:7070":timeout=30 customSetup
Command create-lifecycle-module executed successfully

See Also

You can also view the full syntax and options of the subcommand by typing asadmin help create-lifecycle-module at the command line.

To List Life Cycle Modules

Use the list-lifecycle-modules subcommand in remote mode to list the existing life cycle modules.

Ensure that the server is running.

Remote subcommands require a running server.
List life cycle modules by using the list-lifecycle-modules subcommand.

Example 10-2 Listing Life Cycle Modules

This example lists the existing life cycle modules.

asadmin> list-lifecycle-modules
WSTCPConnectorLCModule
Command list-lifecycle-modules executed successfully

See Also

You can also view the full syntax and options of the subcommand by typing asadmin help list-lifecycle-modules at the command line.

To Update a Life Cycle Module

Use the set subcommand to update an existing life cycle module.

List the properties that can be updated for a life cycle module by using the get subcommand.

For example (single mode):

asadmin get "*" | grep sampleLCM
applications.application.sampleLCMmodule.availability-enabled=false
applications.application.sampleLCMmodule.directory-deployed=false
applications.application.sampleLCMmodule.enabled=true
applications.application.sampleLCMmodule.name=sampleLCMmodule
applications.application.sampleLCMmodule.object-type=user
applications.application.sampleLCMmodule.property.class-name=example.lc.SampleModule
applications.application.sampleLCMmodule.property.classpath=/build/lcm.jar
applications.application.sampleLCMmodule.property.is-failure-fatal=false
applications.application.sampleLCMmodule.property.isLifecycle=true

Update a life cycle module by using the set subcommand.
Restart the server for your changes to take effect.

See To Restart a Domain.

Example 10-3 Updating a Life Cycle Module

This example updates the classpath property.

sadmin> set applications.application.sampleLCMmodule.
property.classpath=/build/lcm_new.jarapplications.application.
sampleLCMmodule.property.classpath=/build/lcm_new.jar
Command set executed successfully.

See Also

You can also view the full syntax and options of the subcommand by typing asadmin help set at the command line.

To Delete a Life Cycle Module

Use the delete-lifecycle-module subcommand in remote mode to delete a life cycle module.

Ensure that the server is running.

Remote subcommands require a running server.
List the current life cycle modules by using the list-lifecycle-modules subcommand.
Delete a life cycle module by using the delete-lifecycle-module subcommand.

Example 10-4 Deleting a Life Cycle Module

This example deletes the customSetup life cycle module.

asadmin> delete-lifecycle-module customSetup
Command delete-lifecycle-module executed successfully

See Also

You can also view the full syntax and options of the subcommand by typing asadmin help delete-lifecycle-module at the command line.