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APEX with JBOSS 7:

Well, I spent 3 days to get this going. It is not pretty but it works and I am sharing all the mess I had to go through to make it work.

1- Download JDK 7 from here - http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html

2- Download JBOSS 7 from here http://www.jboss.org/jbossas/downloads/

I downloaded 7.0.2 final

3- unzip JDK 7 and asign th eunzipped directorya s JAVA_HOME and add to the path. For me:

export JAVA_HOME=/home/oracle/jdk1.7.0_01

export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH

4- unzip the jboss and assign this as JBOSS_HOME. for me it is:

JBOSS_HOME=/home/oracle/jboss702

(Please do not start the jboss yet)

5- Please copy the images for APEX as defined in step 4 here - http://apexdplsepg.blogspot.com/2011/12/install-upgrade.html

6- Untar the images from step5 to $JBOSS_HOME/standalone/deployments. for me it is:

/home/oracle/jboss702/standalone/deployments

7- Download the APEX listener and extract the apex.war from here -

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/apex-listener/downloads/index.html

8- Please do this as indicated below - Very important steps below.

cd $JBOSS_HOME/standalone/deployments

mkdir apex.war

cd apex.war

jar -xvf /homne/oracle/dwnld/apex/apex.war

(Please note that I downloaded and unzipped the APEX listener at /home/oracle/dwnld/apex location)

mkdir /home/oracle/aptmp

cd /home/oracle/aptmp

jar -xvf $JBOSS_HOME/standalone/deployments/apex.war/WEB-INF/lib/apex.jar

cd META-INF

vi oracle.dbtools.rt.services

delete the following line from it:

oracle.dbtools.rt.uri.WarURIResolver

save and exit

now repackage this as:

cd ../ to go to /home/oracle/aptmp

jar -cvf /home/oracle/apex.jar *

(This will create apex.jar in the /home/oracle direvctory)

rm -f $JBOSS_HOME/standalone/deployments/apex.war/WEB-INF/lib/apex.jar

cp apex.jar $JBOSS_HOME/standalone/deployments/apex.war/WEB-INF/lib/

cd $JBOSS_HOME/standalone/deployments/apex.war/WEB-INF

vi adminTemplate.html

Replace all scripts to /i/scripts. This is because for some reason when JBOSS deploys the apex.war there is no directory access inside the apex.war and I did not want to put a lot of time to find out as where this permission is set. I look arounf in the web.xml and others but could not find it. However i.war is accessible for other APEX images so I decided to do this way.

Mine looks like:

amghost3:Oracle ->> grep scripts adminTemplate.html

cd ../ (One step up to /home/oracle/jboss702/standalone/deployments/apex.war)

cp -R scripts ../i.war/

now cd $JBOSS_HOME/bin

edit the jboss-admin.sh and change the last line as:

eval \"$JAVA\" $JAVA_OPTS -jar \"$JBOSS_HOME/jboss-modules.jar\" -logmodule "org.jboss.logmanager" -

mp \"$JBOSS_HOME/modules\" org.jboss.as.cli '--connect controller=amghost3.cup.com:9009 "$@"'

(Please note that I decided to run the web server on 8008 port and 9009 and 9008 for Admin. console)

vi standalone.conf

change the JAVA_OPTS. Mine is:

if [ "x$JAVA_OPTS" = "x" ]; then

JAVA_OPTS="-Xms64m -Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -Dorg.jboss.resolver.warning=true -Dsun.rmi.dgc.client.gcInterval=3600000 -Dsun.rmi.dgc.server.gcInterval=3600000"

JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -Djboss.modules.system.pkgs=$JBOSS_MODULES_SYSTEM_PKGS -Djava.awt.headless=true -Dapex.home=/home/oracle/apex -Dapex.images=/home/oracle/jboss702/standalone/deployments/i.war"

(Please note that the reason I pu the apex variables here is because when we do the listenerConfigure - it will create the conf file in /tmp/apex - so to make it appropriate I did this)

now cd to $JBOSS_HOME/standalone/configuration and edit teh standalone.xml file. Please note the following changes. These changes are to have HTTP/1.1 in UTF-8 format and Admin and Manager Roles and users for APEX.

Just below </extension at the top of the file add following:

<system-properties>

</system-properties>

then I changed the Admin console port and locked them to use the username as:

<native-interface interface="management" port="9009" security-realm="PropertiesMgmtSecurityRealm"/>

<http-interface interface="management" port="9008" security-realm="PropertiesMgmtSecurityRealm"/>

Now look for the security-domain where other is mentioned change it as :

<security-domains>

<security-domain name="other" cache-type="default">

<login-module code="UsersRoles" flag="required"/>

</authentication>

</security-domain>

<security-domain name="form-auth" cache-type="default">

<login-module code="UsersRoles" flag="required">

<module-option name="usersProperties" value="users.properties"/>

<module-option name="rolesProperties" value="roles.properties"/>

</login-module>

</authentication>

</security-domain>

</security-domains>

Now at the interfaces change the 127.0.0.1 to the name like:

<inet-address value="${jboss.bind.address.management:amghost3.cup.com}"/>

</interface>

<inet-address value="${jboss.bind.address:amghost3.cup.com}"/>

</interface>

</interfaces>

and the right beneath it the web port:

<socket-binding name="http" port="8008"/>

Now create followin 2 files "users.properties" and "roles.properties" as:

amghost3:Oracle ->> more users.properties

#Format: username=password

adminlsn=jboss7

mnglsn=jboss7

amghost3:Oracle ->> more roles.properties

adminlsn=Admin

adminlsn.Roles=Admin

mnglsn=Manager

mnglsn.Roles=Manager

Now edit the mgmt-users.properties and uncomment the admin as:

admin=jboss7

Now remove the xmpparser from $JBOSS_HOME/standalone/deployments/apex.war/WEB-INF/lib as:

rm -f $JBOSS_HOME/standalone/deployments/apex.war/WEB-INF/lib/xmlparserv2-11.2.0.jar

Oh Well - Bear with me - couple more steps ---

Now start the JBOSS as cd $JBOSS_HOME/bin

./standalone.sh

Now cd $JBOSS_HOME/standalone/deployments

touch i.war.dodeploy

wait until you see "i.war.deployed"

Now touch apex.war.dodeploy

Now wait until it says apex.war.deployed

Now the magic part :

http://<host>:8008/apex/listenerConfigure

and after inputs above you will end up at:

Now shutdown the JBOSS and do following:

amghost3:Oracle ->> cd /home/oracle/apex

amghost3:Oracle ->> ls

apex-config.xml bdb

vi apex-config.xml

and remove following line from the top of the fikle:

<!DOCTYPE properties SYSTEM "http://java.sun.com/dtd/properties.dtd">

save and exit

Now copy users.properties and roles.properties from $JBOSS_HOME/standalone/configuration to $JBOSS_HOME/standalone/deployments/apex.war/WEB-INF/classes

(we will have to make this directory)

amghost3:Oracle ->> mkdir $JBOSS_HOME/standalone/deployments/apex.war/WEB-INF/classes

amghost3:Oracle ->> pwd

/home/oracle/jboss702/standalone/configuration

amghost3:Oracle ->> cp users.properties $JBOSS_HOME/standalone/deployments/apex.war/WEB-INF/

amghost3:Oracle ->> cp roles.properties $JBOSS_HOME/standalone/deployments/apex.war/WEB-INF

amghost3:Oracle ->> pwd

/home/oracle/jboss702/standalone/deployments/apex.war/WEB-INF/classes

amghost3:Oracle ->> ls

roles.properties users.properties

amghost3Oracle ->>

Now start the jboss agin and test the listenerAdmin tio verify the last puzle of user and roles:

cd $JBOSS_HOME/bin

./standalone.sh

and Wallah !! it works ..

It should work on Jboss 7.1 as well but if it does not then please comment and I will try tp see what need to be fixed !!

Happy sharing !!

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