# Metro 2.3-b04

`Release Date: January 09, 2012`

## Downloading Metro 2.3-b04

Unless you have already done so, please download the Metro 2.3-b04 ZIP archive. Once downloaded, you can expand it by executing following shell command:

    unzip metro-standalone-2.3-b04.zip

On Windows or Mac, you may as well just double-click the zip file to expand it.

The expanded `metro` directory contains following `ant` files:

- `metro-on-glassfish.xml`
- `metro-on-tomcat.xml`
- and `metro-on-glassfish-3.x.xml`, an experimental stand-alone GlassFish 3.x installer

These files are used to install the Metro binaries into the respective web containers. The installation procedure is explained in the next section.

## Installing Metro 2.3-b04

### GlassFish 3.x

GlassFish 3.x bundles Metro by default. Should you want to replace the default Metro version by a more up-to-date release of Metro please check the Update Center for GlassFish 3.x. Follow these steps to install Metro 2.3-b04 into GlassFish 3.x using the GlassFish 3.x Update Ceter:

- Stop GlassFish 3.x instance (if it is running)
- Start the Update Tool - on the command prompt change to the directory where GlassFish 3.x was installed, then `bin` directory and run `updatetool.exe` (Windows) or `./updatetool` (Unix).
- Click Available Add-ons
- Select Metro Web Services Stack for GlassFish
- Click Install
- Accept the license
- Start GlassFish 3.x again

In case you don't have an Internet access or want to experiment with an unofficial build or release of Metro not available on the official GlassFish 3.x update center, you may try the experimental standalone GlassFish 3.x installer. To stop GlassFish 3.x instance, install Metro 2.3-b04 using the standalone installer on top of it and restart the GlassFish 3.x instance, execute the following commands:

    asadmin stop-domain <domain-name>
    ant -Das.home=<GF_INSTALL_DIR> -f <METRO_INSTALL_DIR>/metro-on-glassfish-v3.xml install
    asadmin start-domain <domain-name>

### GlassFish v2

GlassFish v2 bundles Metro. However you may want to replace the default Metro version by this more up-to-date release. To do that, you must pass the name of the GlassFish v2 top-level directory into `ant`. In our instructions bellow, that information is passed as an `ant` property value on the command line. To stop GlassFish v2 instance, install Metro 2.3-b04 on top of it and restart the GlassFish v2 instance again execute the following commands:

    asadmin stop-domain <domain-name>
    ant -Das.home=<GF_INSTALL_DIR> -f <METRO_INSTALL_DIR>/metro-on-glassfish.xml install
    asadmin start-domain <domain-name>

This process creates a backup copy of the original Metro installation, copies the Metro 2.3-b04 jar files into your GlassFish v2 installation's `lib` directory and makes the necessary classpath alterations in the domain configuration file: `domain.xml`. It will also update the classpath for the utility script files: `wsimport` and `wsgen`.

### Tomcat

The installation process for Tomcat is very similar to that of GlassFish v2. Again, the top-level directory of the Tomcat installation is passed as an argument to the `ant` command. To shutdown Tomcat, change directories, invoke `ant`, and restart Tomcat by executing these commands:

    catalina.sh stop
    ant -Dtomcat.home=<TOMCAT_INSTALL_DIR> -f <METRO_INSTALL_DIR>/metro-on-tomcat.xml install
    catalina.sh start

For Tomcat, the installation process copies the two Metro jar files into Tomcat's `shared/lib` directory. No Tomcat configuration files are modified.

## Updating to Metro 2.3-b04

Once a version of Metro web services stack has been installed on a web container, it can be updated with a new version of the Metro binaries. To update your Metro installation to Metro 2.3-b04, follow the same steps used for the initial install, shown above.

Note that for GlassFish v2, the second and subsequent installs only update the Metro binaries; no configuration files are modified.

## Uninstalling Metro

To remove the Metro binaries and configuration changes from your web container, the steps are almost identical to the ones in the installation process. The following steps will restore your web container to the state before Metro installation:

### GlassFish 3.x

Use the Update Tool to remove Metro Web Services from GlassFish.

### GlassFish v2

    asadmin stop-domain domain1
    ant -Das.home=<GF_INSTALL_DIR> -f <METRO_INSTALL_DIR>/metro-on-glassfish.xml uninstall
    asadmin start-domain domain1

### Tomcat

    catalina.sh stop
    ant -Dtomcat.home=<TOMCAT_INSTALL_DIR> -f <METRO_INSTALL_DIR>/metro-on-tomcat.xml uninstall
    catalina.sh start

## Release Notes

Metro 2.3-b04 release consists of following components:

- Metro/WSIT 2.2 - Browse the WSIT release notes online.
- JAX-WS RI 2.2.6 - Browse the JAX-WS RI release notes online.
- JAXB RI 2.2.5 - Browse the JAXB RI release notes online.

## Users Guide

We have created a snapshot of Metro Users Guide at the time of this Metro release. You may also wish to consult the latest version of the Metro Users Gude.

## Technical Support

Please subscribe to the users list and send comments/feedbacks/opinions to the list. Additionally, we encourage you to report any bugs you might find while using Metro through our Metro issue trackers.

## Workspace Snapshot

If you'd like to hack the source code used to build these binaries, please check out the Metro sources running the following command from the command line:

            svn export https://svn.java.net/svn/wsit~svn/trunk -r 6961 metro-sources

This component is released under the Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL) version 1.1 + GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2. You must agree to these licenses as part of installation before viewing and/or using the code.