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) in a tomcat instance.

Build -repo projects

Build the alfresco-community-repo (if you have not done so already), so that your changes are in the enterprise alfresco.war file.

cd alfresco-community-repo
mvn clean install -PcommunityDocker  -DskipTests=true -Dversion.edition=Community
cd ..

cd alfresco-enterprise-repo
mvn clean install -PenterpriseDocker -DskipTests=true -Dmaven.javadoc.skip=true
cd ..

Docker test environment

The repository code will need to talk to other ACS components, such as a databases, message queue and transformers. The simplest way to create these, is to use the docker-compose.yml file in the dev directory.

cd acs-community-packaging
docker-compose -f dev/docker-compose.yml up -d

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-log4j.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/. entT is an alias for the following command and entTDebug will allow a debugger to be attached.

$ # The alias entT is the same as the following mvn command. entTDebug may also be used.
$ mvn clean install -Prun,withShare
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Reactor Build Order:
[INFO] 
[INFO] Alfresco Content Services Community Packaging                      [pom]
[INFO] Alfresco Content Services Community Distribution zip               [jar]
[INFO] Alfresco Content Services Public API Javadoc                       [pom]
[INFO] ACS Community Docker Image Builder for Alfresco Community          [pom]
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO] --------------------------------[ pom ]---------------------------------
...
INFO: Starting ProtocolHandler ["http-bio-8080"]

If you kill the tomcat instance (^C) and wish to restart it, use the following command or the entO alias, or entODebug to attach a debuger.

$ 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.

$ ^C
... Stopped 'sysAdmin' subsystem, ID: [sysAdmin, default]

$ docker-compose -f dev/docker-compose.yml stop
Stopping dev_transform-core-aio_1 ... done
Stopping dev_transform-router_1   ... done
Stopping dev_solr6_1              ... done
Stopping dev_postgres_1           ... done
Stopping dev_activemq_1           ... done
Stopping dev_shared-file-store_1  ... done

$ 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_transform-router_1   ... done
Removing dev_solr6_1              ... done
Removing dev_postgres_1           ... done
Removing dev_activemq_1           ... done
Removing dev_shared-file-store_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-log4j.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.

Aliases

You may also find the aliases specified in the following file useful, as they may save you some typing.

$ source acs-community-packaging/dev/aliases