8 Replies Latest reply on Oct 14, 2007 11:23 AM by alamandrax

    Publish to JBoss AS 4.2.0.GA fails

    sg26565
    sg26565 Oct 11, 2007 3:23 PM

      I'm trying to publish a simple web application to the JBoss server bundeled with RHDS. When I start the server I get a warning message and the web app is unavailable:

      21:01:13,071 INFO [TomcatDeployer] deploy, ctxPath=/Registration, warUrl=.../deploy/Registration.war/
21:01:13,168 WARN [config] Unable to process deployment descriptor for context 'null'

      The same web app runs on tomcat without problems.

      I took a look into $RHDS_HOME/jboss-eap/jboss-as/server/default/deploy/Registration.war and it contains the folder structure of my web app but not files.

      I already deleted the server config in RHDS and re-created it, but the result is still the same (no files and warning message on startup). Am I doing something wrong here?

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        • 1. Re: Publish to JBoss AS 4.2.0.GA fails
          maxandersen
          maxandersen Oct 12, 2007 2:28 AM (in response to sg26565)

          I think this is jboss as/configuration issue in your web.xml

          Here is my google search for it.
          (...)you need to customise the default WebRoot/WEB-INF/web.xml. This is what tells JBoss where to find the entry point for the web service -- the deployment descriptor. By default it points to a .jsp. If you forget and try to deploy it anyway, the deployment will work, a warning message : unable to process deployment descriptor for context null appears in the log(...)

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          • 2. Re: Publish to JBoss AS 4.2.0.GA fails
            sg26565
            sg26565 Oct 12, 2007 1:58 PM (in response to sg26565)

            Maybe I wasn't clear enough. I have no problem running the web app on the JBoss server if I manually deploy it to $RHDS_HOME/jboss-eap/jboss-as/server/default/deploy/. My problem is that it dosn't work if I let RHDS deploy it to the integrated jboss-as (e.g. via Run As -> Run on Server).

            For testing purposes I have a very simple web app that consist of only two files: index.html and WEB-INF/web.xml

            <html>
 <body>
 <h1>Hello, World!</h1>
 </body>
</html>
            <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app id="WebApp_ID" version="2.4"
 xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
 xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee
 http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd">

 <display-name>Test-WEB</display-name>
 <welcome-file-list>
 <welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file>
 </welcome-file-list>
</web-app>


            If I manually copy these two files to $RHDS_HOME/jboss-eap/jboss-as/server/default/deploy/Test-WEB everything is fine. However, if I use Publish from the Server view, then RHDS creates the WEB-INF directory but not any files. Even if I copy the files manually RHDS deletes them as soon as I modify one of them in RHDS. I think there is something wrong with the publish functionality. I'm not sure if that's a configuration issue or a bug.

            btw.: I'm running Fedora 7 and jdk1.5.0_13

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            • 3. Re: Publish to JBoss AS 4.2.0.GA fails
              maxandersen
              maxandersen Oct 12, 2007 4:38 PM (in response to sg26565)

              any chance your workspace is on a different filesystem than your server ?

              if yes - then please report this as a bug!

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              • 4. Re: Publish to JBoss AS 4.2.0.GA fails
                alamandrax
                alamandrax Oct 14, 2007 6:13 AM (in response to sg26565)

                I think I have a similar problem but with an installation of Tomcat 5.5

                1) I installed Tomcat 5.5 in C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 5.5

                I then opened the Servers view in RHDS beta2, selected the new server option from the right-click menu and added the above server. I deployed my application to Tomcat using the Ant view in RHDS. I checked the %CATALINA_HOME%\webapps\ folder and I saw the war file for my application was correctly deployed to this folder.

                I came back to the Servers view in RHDS and hit the run button. The server starts up, but the application doesn't get deployed. This is the console output:

                Oct 14, 2007 3:32:12 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol init
INFO: Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
Oct 14, 2007 3:32:12 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load
INFO: Initialization processed in 924 ms
Oct 14, 2007 3:32:12 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService start
INFO: Starting service Catalina
Oct 14, 2007 3:32:12 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine start
INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/5.5.25
Oct 14, 2007 3:32:12 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost start
INFO: XML validation disabled
Oct 14, 2007 3:32:12 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol start
INFO: Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
Oct 14, 2007 3:32:12 PM org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket init
INFO: JK: ajp13 listening on /0.0.0.0:8009
Oct 14, 2007 3:32:12 PM org.apache.jk.server.JkMain start
INFO: Jk running ID=0 time=0/82 config=null
Oct 14, 2007 3:32:12 PM org.apache.catalina.storeconfig.StoreLoader load
INFO: Find registry server-registry.xml at classpath resource
Oct 14, 2007 3:32:13 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in 875 ms


                As can be seen, my application's war file isn't being deployed. Running the same server from the command prompt produces this output: 

                Oct 14, 2007 3:33:32 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol init
INFO: Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
Oct 14, 2007 3:33:32 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load
INFO: Initialization processed in 720 ms
Oct 14, 2007 3:33:32 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService start
INFO: Starting service Catalina
Oct 14, 2007 3:33:32 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine start
INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/5.5.25
Oct 14, 2007 3:33:32 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost start
INFO: XML validation disabled
Oct 14, 2007 3:33:33 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployWAR
INFO: Deploying web application archive myapplication.war
15:33:38,359 INFO ContextLoader:174 - Root WebApplicationContext: initialization started
15:33:38,366 INFO [/myapplication]:647 - Loading Spring root WebApplicationContext


... (a lot of output related to the deployment of myapplication)


15:33:44,695 INFO ValidatorPlugIn:211 - Loading validation rules file from '/WEB-INF/validator-rules.xml'
15:33:44,724 INFO ValidatorPlugIn:211 - Loading validation rules file from '/WEB-INF/validation.xml'
Oct 14, 2007 3:33:45 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol start
INFO: Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
Oct 14, 2007 3:33:45 PM org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket init
INFO: JK: ajp13 listening on /0.0.0.0:8009
Oct 14, 2007 3:33:45 PM org.apache.jk.server.JkMain start
INFO: Jk running ID=0 time=0/31 config=null
Oct 14, 2007 3:33:45 PM org.apache.catalina.storeconfig.StoreLoader load
INFO: Find registry server-registry.xml at classpath resource
Oct 14, 2007 3:33:45 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in 12778 ms


                I've deployed my applications, before, using the JBoss IDE and the server view and was able to run everything from within eclipse without having to visit the command prompt. Has the procedure to add the server to eclipse changed?

                Is this a bug?

                2) Adding the server to my servers view put a project folder Servers in my workspace with a "Tomcat v5.5 Server at localhost-config" folder and within this folder were the server.xml file and other configuration files related to Tomcat.

                Will modifying these files directly modify the config files in the %CATALINA_HOME%\conf\ folder?

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                • 5. Re: Publish to JBoss AS 4.2.0.GA fails
                  maxandersen
                  maxandersen Oct 14, 2007 6:18 AM (in response to sg26565)

                  tomcat deployment is the defaeult eclipse WTP implementation - so should not in any way be affected by JBossTools/JBossIDE

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                  • 6. Re: Publish to JBoss AS 4.2.0.GA fails
                    alamandrax
                    alamandrax Oct 14, 2007 6:59 AM (in response to sg26565)

                    I tested the server from my old JBoss IDE installation and the issue was identical to the one I described above. I guess it's a problem with my Tomcat installation. Thanks for the help! :)

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                    • 7. Re: Publish to JBoss AS 4.2.0.GA fails
                      sg26565
                      sg26565 Oct 14, 2007 7:45 AM (in response to sg26565)

                      My RHDS workspace is on /home/oli/workspaces/... and RHDS is installed in /opt/RedHatDeveloperStudio. /home and /opt are on different file systems. I copied RHDS to my home folder and re-created the jboss-as server config. With workspace and RHDS in the same file system, the deployment works without problems.

                      As you requested I will file a bug for this issue.

                      Thanks for the help!

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                      • 8. Re: Publish to JBoss AS 4.2.0.GA fails
                        alamandrax
                        alamandrax Oct 14, 2007 11:23 AM (in response to sg26565)

                        Turns out I was running the server from the workspace instead of letting eclipse take control of the tomcat installation directory.

                        Opening the server in eclipse and going through the Server Locations option helped.

                        My issue was solved.

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