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Deploy Java Studio Creator 2 update 1 applications to Glassfish (PE 9) server

Direct deployment to a 'remote' glassfish V1 or V2 or SJAS 9 server is not possible from Java Studio Creator 2 upd 1. So the way to deploy applications to Glassfish is by building a war, and deploying it from the Glassfish administration console.

When building a WAR in Sun Java Studio Creator, the (server-specific) sun-web.xml file is NOT incorporated in the WAR-archive. This sun-web.xml file is needed for role-mapping, resource-mapping, ...
Also, the JSF libraries are included. In recent builds of Glassfish V1 UR1 and Glassfish V2, this does not lead to exceptions when deploying (as opposed to older builds), but still I noticed errors in the 'System Errors' component when they are included in MySQL-based database-aware applications.

Go to the build.xml-file in the JSC 'files' window, and edit the 'extract-war' target. In this target, comment out the line

delete file="${dist.jar.dir}/tmp/WEB-INF/sun-web.xml" quiet="true"

and add the lines

delete file="${dist.jar.dir}/tmp/WEB-INF/libs/jsf-impl.jar" quiet="true"
delete file="${dist.jar.dir}/tmp/WEB-INF/libs/jsf-api.jar" quiet="true"
delete file="${dist.jar.dir}/tmp/WEB-INF/libs/commons-logging-1.0.4.jar" quiet="true"
delete file="${dist.jar.dir}/tmp/WEB-INF/libs/commons-digester.jar" quiet="true"
delete file="${dist.jar.dir}/tmp/WEB-INF/libs/commons-collections.jar" quiet="true"
delete file="${dist.jar.dir}/tmp/WEB-INF/libs/commons-beanutils.jar" quiet="true"

Now build the application, and the war will contain sun-web.xml, while the JSF libraries included in the Glassfish server will be used instead of the ones from JSC.

Important note when using MySQL 4.1.x on Ubuntu (from the standard package) with Connector/J 3.1.x : Server side prepared statements are used by this connector, and they are broken in this MySQL-version. Set the connection parameter useServerPrepStmts=false from the Glassfish administration console when setting the connection pool. Symptom of this problem : JSC created databound tables show up empty with a note 'No Items Found', while no error messages are shown or logged.

posted by Unknown @ 12:28 AM