Download Metro 2.4.4-b01

# Metro 2.4.4-b01

`Release Date: December 13, 2019`

## Downloading Metro 2.4.4-b01

Unless you have already done so, please download the Metro 2.4.4-b01 ZIP archive. Once downloaded, you can expand it by executing following shell command:

    unzip metro-standalone-2.4.4-b01.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-tomcat.xml`
- `metro-on-glassfish.xml`

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 2.4.4-b01

### GlassFish 4.x

GlassFish bundles Metro by default. You should not update Metro version separately - always update to full Glassfish update.

In case you want to experiment with an unofficial build or release of Metro, you may try the GlassFish installer. To stop GlassFish instance, install Metro 2.4.4-b01 using the standalone installer on top of it and restart the GlassFish instance, 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>

### Tomcat

The installation process for Tomcat is very similar to that of GlassFish. 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 2.4.4-b01

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 2.4.4-b01, follow the same steps used for the initial install, shown above.

## 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

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

### 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 2.4.4-b01 release consists of following components:

- Metro/WSIT 2.4.4-b01 - Browse the WSIT release notes online.
- JAX-WS RI 2.3.3-b01 - Browse the JAX-WS RI release notes online.
- JAXB RI 2.3.3-b02 - 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 Guide.

## 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:

            git clone git@github.com:javaee/metro-wsit.git metro-sources

This component is released under the EDL license - v1.0. You must agree to these licenses as part of installation before viewing and/or using the code.