Building, Deploying, and Running the simplemessage Application Using Ant

To create and package the application using Ant, use the default target for the build.xml file:

ant

This target packages the application client and the message-driven bean, then creates a file named simplemessage.ear in the dist directory.

By using resource injection and annotations, you avoid having to create deployment descriptor files for the message-driven bean and application client. You need to use deployment descriptors only if you want to override the values specified in the annotated source files.

To deploy the application and run the client using Ant, use the following command:

ant run

Ignore the message that states that the application is deployed at a URL.

The output in the terminal window looks like this:

running application client container.
Sending message: This is message 1
Sending message: This is message 2
Sending message: This is message 3
To see if the bean received the messages,
 check <install_dir>/domains/domain1/logs/server.log.

In the server log file, the following lines should be displayed, wrapped in logging information:

MESSAGE BEAN: Message received: This is message 1
MESSAGE BEAN: Message received: This is message 2
MESSAGE BEAN: Message received: This is message 3

The received messages often appear in a different order from the order in which they were sent.

Undeploy the application after you finish running the client. Use the following command:

ant undeploy

To remove the generated files, use the following command:

ant clean