[Half Solved] HTTP WCM deployment receiver subsystem

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bnordgren

I'm trying to override or configure a new type of the wcm_deployment_receiver subsystem category, which will publish a deployment receiver engine over HTTP from within the Alfresco repository. (e.g., not standalone).

The details of what I did are here: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/HTTP_Instance_of_WCM_deployment_receiver

Note, however, that most of the contents on that page are my attempt to adapt the "standalone" configuration to the repository environment. Right now, it represents what I expect to work instead of what actually works. And so I now ask for help. 

My first problem with the instructions on that page is that the http subsystem is not recognized and is not started, according to alfresco.log. So I copied the "…/wcm_deployment_receiver/http" directory to "…/wcm_deployment_receiver/default". I believe it is now reading my configuration files (because the first thing it did was complain of a namespace error, which I fixed.) However…

I point my browser to http://localhost:8080/alfresco/deployment and get Tomcat's 404 page. Same story at http://localhost:8080/deployment. My issue, I guess, is that I really don't have a good grasp of how to declare what URL the receiver should use, and hence what URL to type into the authoring server (when I get to that point).

So, two questions:

1. Why did the original attempt to configure a separate http instance of an existing subsystem fail?
2. How can I fix the publication of the service such that the URL I need to type into the authoring server is known?

Thanks,
Bryce
PS: On the way to this wiki page, I wrote a lot of individual reference pages on each of the components.  They are all listed on the WCM Deployment category page. Note that everything I wrote is intended to be a "good starting point", so feel free to fix whatever is wrong, or add more pages to more fully describe the DM/AVM deployment targets, etc.

bnordgren

Whoops, here is the final version of my "deployment-engine-context.xml" file after I edited it:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<!–  Deployment engine configuration –>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
    xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-2.5.xsd">
    
    <!–  command queue for deployment service –>
    <bean id="deploymentReceiverCommandQueue" class="org.alfresco.deployment.impl.server.DeploymentCommandQueueImpl" > 
    </bean> 
    
    <!–  Reader management –>
    <bean id="deploymentReaderManagement" class="org.alfresco.deployment.impl.server.ReaderManagementPool" > 
    </bean> 
    
    <!–  Housekeeper for the deployment queue  –>
    <bean id="commandQueueHousekeeper" class="org.alfresco.deployment.impl.server.DeploymentCommandQueueHousekeeper"
        init-method="init">
        <property name="commandQueue"><ref bean="deploymentReceiverCommandQueue" /></property>
    </bean>
    
    <!– Authentication. Pick one bean and comment the other out. –>
    <!–
    <bean id="targetAuthenticator"
        class="org.alfresco.deployment.impl.server.DeploymentReceiverAuthenticatorSimple">
        <property name="user"><value>${deployment.user}</value></property>
        <property name="password"><value>${deployment.password}</value></property>
    </bean>
    –>
    <bean id="targetAuthenticator"
        class="org.alfresco.repo.deploy.DeploymentReceiverAuthenticatorAuthenticationService"
        init-method="init">
        <property name="authenticationService">
            <ref bean="AuthenticationService"/>
        </property>
    </bean>
    
    <!– This is the deployment engine  –>
    <bean id="deploymentReceiverEngine" 
        class="org.alfresco.deployment.impl.server.DeploymentReceiverEngineImpl" 
        init-method="init">
        
        <!– These things are "effectively constant" –>
        <property name="commandQueue">
            <ref bean="deploymentReceiverCommandQueue"/>
        </property>        
        <property name="readerManagement">
            <ref bean="deploymentReaderManagement" />
        </property>
        <property name="housekeepers">
            <set>
                <ref bean="commandQueueHousekeeper"/>
            </set>
        </property>
        
        <!– This is configured via the property file –>
        <property name="pollDelay"><value>${deployment.pollDelay}</value></property>
        
        <!–  The authenticator is configured via the above XML –>
        <property name="authenticator">
            <ref bean="targetAuthenticator"/>
        </property>
        
        <!– 
            Both "included" transformers are configured by default.
            Delete what you don't want. Rearrange if needed.
        –>
        <property name="transformers"> 
            <list>
                <bean class="org.alfresco.deployment.transformers.CompressionTransformer"/>
                <bean class="org.alfresco.deployment.transformers.SampleEncryptionTransformer">
                    <property name="cipherName">
                        <value>${deployment.ciphername}</value>
                    </property>
                    <property name="password">
                        <value>${deployment.cipherpass}</value>
                    </property>
                </bean>
            </list>
        </property>
    </bean>
    
    <!– Publish the service –> 
    <bean id="deploymentReceiverTransportHTTP"
        class="org.springframework.remoting.httpinvoker.HttpInvokerServiceExporter"
        p:service-ref="deploymentReceiverEngine">
        <property name="serviceInterface">
            <value>org.alfresco.deployment.DeploymentReceiverTransport</value>
        </property>      
    </bean>
    <bean id="urlMapping"
        class="org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.SimpleUrlHandlerMapping">
        <property name="mappings">
            <props>
                <prop key="/deployment">deploymentReceiverTransportHTTP</prop>
            </props>
        </property>
    </bean>
    
    <!–  Now import the deployment targets –>
    <import resource="classpath*:alfresco/deployment/*-target.xml" />
    <import resource="classpath*:alfresco/extension/deployment/*-target.xml" />
    <import resource="classpath*:alfresco/deployment/http/*-target.xml" />
    <import resource="classpath*:alfresco/extension/deployment/http/*-target.xml" />
    
</beans>
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