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Are you keeping up with the latest glassfish builds? Are you running windows 2k or higher? Are you fed up having to manually reinstall the server whenever a new weekly build comes out?
Well I was, so here’s a very basic Windows NT command script.
@ECHO OFF
REM Change these environment variables to your own config
SET GLASSFISH_DOWNLOADS=c:\java\downloads
SET GLASSFISH_DRIVE=c:
SET GLASSFISH_PARENT_DIR=c:\java
REM Make sure we are in the correct location
%GLASSFISH_DRIVE%
CD %GLASSFISH_PARENT_DIR%
REM Find the latest build that has been downloaded
SET BUILD=aaa
FOR %%i IN (%GLASSFISH_DOWNLOADS%\glassfish-installer-9.0-*.jar) DO IF %%i GTR %BUILD% SET BUILD=%%i
IF A%BUILD%A==AaaaA GOTO no_build
CLS
ECHO .
ECHO .
ECHO Newest build found is: %BUILD%
IF EXIST glassfish.bld (TYPE glassfish.bld) ELSE (ECHO Current installed build: I don't know)
ECHO .
ECHO .
ECHO .
ECHO [%0] About to remove current installation of Glassfish...
ECHO .
ECHO This will delete any currently deployed applications, so you would want to
ECHO either not care about them or have made a backup already!
ECHO .
ECHO .
ECHO This is your last chance to press Ctrl+C to abort otherwise
ECHO press any other key to continue...
PAUSE >> NUL
ECHO .
ECHO .
ECHO .
ECHO [%0] Stopping domain1...
ECHO .
CALL ASADMIN stop-domain domain1
ECHO .
ECHO .
ECHO .
ECHO [%0] Removing current installation...
ECHO .
RMDIR /S /Q %GLASSFISH_PARENT_DIR%\glassfish
ECHO .
ECHO .
ECHO .
ECHO [%0] Starting installer...
ECHO .JAVA -Xmx256m -jar %BUILD%
ECHO Current installed build: %BUILD% > glassfish.bld
ECHO .
ECHO .
ECHO .
ECHO [%0] Setting up domain1...
ECHO .
CD glassfish
CALL ANT -f setup.xml
ECHO .
ECHO .
ECHO .
ECHO [%0] Starting domain1...
ECHO .
CALL ASADMIN start-domain domain1
ECHO .
ECHO .
ECHO .
ECHO [%0] Glassfish reinstalled!
ECHO .
GOTO end
:no_build
ECHO .
ECHO .
ECHO .
ECHO Cannot find any glassfish builds in %GLASSFISH_DOWNLOADS%
ECHO .
:end
ECHO .
ECHO .
ECHO .
ECHO [%0] I'm done, press a key and I'll be out of here...
ECHO .
PAUSE >> NUL
Save it as, e.g. REINSTALL-GLASSFISH.CMD and all you need to do is run it every time you download a new build!