List of general rules about artifact.xml

Below is a list of general rules which Harshana (WSO2 Tooling guru) mentioned while he was supporting us with customer queries.

1. artifact.xml files in Dev Studio Projects as well as in Composite Application Archive (CAR) files are to manage Artifact metadata. Hence they should not be manipulated manually by users.

2. artifacts list in the artifacts.xml represents the order of artifacts getting deployed in Carbon 4.2.0 based servers including ESB 4.8.0.

3. If there are ESB Message Stores and Message Processors, then Message Stores will be placed before the Message Processors in the artifacts.xml. This process is automatically happens with Dev Studio 3.5.9 version.

4. If you are using Proxy services with Publish WSDL option where the WSDL itself is included in the CAR file in form of Registry Resource or Local entry, that entry need to appear before the Proxy itself because at the time of the Deployment of the proxy, it will use the wsdl pointed as the Publish WSDL.

5. In general the order of the artifacts in artifacts.xml will be Registry Resources, Local entries, Message Stores, Message Processors, other artifact types.

How to remove these UI bundles from worker node

To remove these UI bundles from worker node, you need to run the following command from [PRODUCT_HOME]/bin:

ant createWorker

The ant task createWorker removes the following set of UI bundles:

org.wso2.carbon.*ui_*
org.wso2.carbon.*stub_*
org.wso2.stratos.*ui_*
org.wso2.stratos.*stub_*
org.jaggeryjs.*ui_*
org.jaggeryjs.*stub_*
org.wso2.carbon.ui.menu.*
org.wso2.*styles_*
org.wso2.carbon.authenticator.proxy_*


A situation where this might not work is;

If you have used -DapplyPatches parameter to start ESB node at some point!! If so it will backup the original jar files in [PRODUCT_HOME]/repository/components/plugins to [PRODUCT_HOME]/repository/components/patches/patch0000 folder. In the next server startup these jars will get replaced in [PRODUCT_HOME]/repository/components/plugins. Hence, the UI bundles could appear again. If this is the case, you need to remove the UI bundles (mentioned in above comment) manually from [PRODUCT_HOME]/repository/components/patches/patch0000 folder.