Packaging
As you know, it’s a servlet application
Skinny applications run on any Servlet container.
So you just need to build a war file and deploy it to your production servers.
Packaging war file
It’s very simple to do that. Just
./skinny package
You will see the created war file under build/target/scala_2.10.
If you want to deploy the war file to a Maven repository (e.g. Artifactory), just run ./skinny publish after customizing the build settings file.
Creating stand alone app
What’s more, you can easily create a stand alone jar file by just running the following command:
./skinny package:standalone
After a while, you will get a standalone jar file.
java -jar standalone-build/target/scala-2.10/skinny-standalone-app-assembly-0.1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
You can pass configuration via system properties. Otherwise, it’s also possible to use environment variables.
java -jar -Dskinny.port=9000 -Dskinny.env=production -Dskinny.prefix=/foo/ \
standalone-build/target/scala-2.10/skinny-standalone-app-assembly-0.1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
Configuration
The following options are available to configure your Skinny applications. You can pass the following values from environment variables or system properties.
skinny.env or app.env or SKINNY_ENV or APP_ENV
Default value is “development”. If skinny.env system property is “production”, application load the “production” settings from “src/main/resources/application.conf”.
- sys.props.get(“skinny.env”) or sys.props.get(“app.env”)
- sys.env.get(“SKINNY_ENV”) or sys.env.get(“APP_ENV”)
You can access the value via skinny.SkinnyEnv in application.
skinny.port or SKINNY_PORT
This value is only for stand alone apps. Default value is 8080. You can customize the port number on which the stand alone app server listens.
skinny.prefix or SKINNY_PREFIX
This value is only for stand alone apps. Default value is “/”. You can customize the context path for the servlet app.