# Development Tomcat Environment


It is possible to use Docker containers to test your code, but it is normally more convenient to simply run the
repository webapp (`alfresco.war`) and Share webapp (`share.war`) in a tomcat instance. Options are also available to
apply selected AMPs

## Setting up your development environment
Although it is possible to work on individual github projects, we recommend working on
the `alfresco-community-repo`, `alfresco-community-share` and `acs-community-packaging`
in a single Intellij IDEA project. They depend on each other and typically you 
will want to make changes to all of them if you are changing the repository code.

~~~
mkdir work
cd work
git clone git@github.com:Alfresco/alfresco-community-repo.git
git clone git@github.com:Alfresco/alfresco-community-share.git
git clone git@github.com:Alfresco/acs-community-packaging.git
~~~

## Aliases
There are a set of aliases to help with building. You may find them useful, as they will help you only build selected parts
of the code base and will save you lots of typing.

Aliases ending in `D` provide Maven commands for building local Docker images. The AMPS environment variable will be of
interest, if you wish to build AMPs included in the repo and share projects. 

The `aliases` file includes a more detailed description.
~~~
source acs-community-packaging/dev/aliases
~~~

## Link the projects
Generally you will want to link the different projects together by modifying the top level
pom.xml files of each downstream project so that they reference the SNAPSHOT versions of the
upstream projects. To help do this see the `acs-community-packaging` project's `scripts/dev/linkPoms.sh` and
`scripts/dev/unlinkPoms.sh` scripts.

~~~
sh acs-community-packaging/scripts/dev/linkPoms.sh
~~~

## Build the alfresco-community-repo project
Build the `alfresco-community-repo` projects (if you have not
done so already), so that your changes are in the community alfresco.war file.
~~~
# The `comR` alias includes the following commands:
cd alfresco-community-repo
mvn clean install -DskipTests=true -Dversion.edition=Community
cd ..
~~~

## Build the Share project
Build the `alfresco-community-share` project (if you have not done so already), so that your
changes are in the community share.war file, which also depends on your `alfresco-community-repo` project version.
~~~
# The `entS` alias is the same as the following commands:
cd alfresco-community-share
mvn clean install -DskipTests -Dmaven.javadoc.skip=true
cd ..
~~~

## Docker test environment
The repository code will need to talk to other ACS components, such as a database, message queue and transformers.
The simplest way to create these, is to use the `docker-compose.yml` file in the `dev` directory.
~~~
# The `envUp` alias is the same as the following commands. Run these in a new terminal session, or add a `-d` flag to
the `docker compose` command.
cd acs-community-packaging
docker compose -f dev/docker-compose.yml up
Creating dev_activemq_1           ... done
Creating dev_solr6_1              ... done
Creating dev_postgres_1           ... done
Creating dev_transform-core-aio_1 ... done
...
cd ..
~~~

## Alfresco global properties and Log4j
Set any alfresco-global.properties or log4j properties you may need in the following files. They will be copied
to the `dev/dev-acs-amps-overlay/target` directory. Other customisations may also be placed in the `extension` directory. 
~~~
dev/dev-tomcat/src/main/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/custom-log4j2.properties
dev/dev-tomcat/src/main/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco-global.properties
~~~

## Tomcat
Create the development tomcat environment, apply AMPs on top of the repository code, and
run tomcat. The `run` profile is what starts tomcat. The `withShare` applies
the Share services AMP and adds the `share.war` to tomcat. 
Once started, you will be able to access Share on `http://localhost:8080/share` and various repository
endpoints via `http://localhost:8080/alfresco/`. `comT` is an alias for the
following command and `comTDebug` will allow a debugger to be attached.
~~~
# The alias comT is the same as the following commands:
cd acs-community-packaging
mvn clean install -Prun -rf dev
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Reactor Build Order:
[INFO] 
[INFO] Development Tomcat Environment                                     [pom]
[INFO] Tomcat Configuration                                               [pom]
[INFO] Repo WAR with amps                                                 [war]
[INFO] Share WAR with amps                                                [war]
[INFO] Tomcat                                                             [war]
...
INFO: Starting ProtocolHandler ["http-bio-8080"]
cd ..
~~~

If you kill the tomcat instance (^C) and wish to restart it, use the following command
or the `comO` alias, or `comODebug` to attach a debugger.
~~~
mvn install -Prun,withShare -rf dev-acs-amps-overlay
~~~


## Clean up
When finished, kill the tomcat instance and stop the Docker instances. You will normally also
remove the Docker containers, as you will need a clean database if you are going to issue
another `mvn clean install` command. If you started `docker compose` in a separate terminal session,
simply use `^C` or if you used a `-d` flag, use `docker compose -f dev/docker-compose.yml stop`.
~~~
^C
... Stopped 'sysAdmin' subsystem, ID: [sysAdmin, default]

docker compose -f dev/docker-compose.yml rm
Going to remove dev_transform-core-aio_1, dev_transform-router_1, dev_solr6_1, dev_postgres_1, dev_activemq_1, dev_shared-file-store_1
Are you sure? [yN] y
Removing dev_transform-core-aio_1 ... done
Removing dev_solr6_1              ... done
Removing dev_postgres_1           ... done
Removing dev_activemq_1           ... done
~~~

If you have not removed the containers, it is possible to restart the tomcat instance with
a `mvn install` (no `clean`), but this may result in failures if there are incompatibilities
between the code, database and content in `dev/dev-acs-amps-overlay/target/dev-instance/runtime/alf_data`.
Any changes made to alfresco-global properties or log4j will not be picked up, unless you
directly edit `dev/dev-acs-amps-overlay/target/dev-instance/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/custom-log4j2.properties`
and `dev/dev-acs-amps-overlay/target/dev-instance/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco-global.properties`, but they will be thrown away
on the next `mvn clean`.
