How to deploy an EAR or WAR that uses Struts on JBoss3.0/Jet

[mkgarnek]

I am learning how to use JBoss. I have a working web application that uses Struts on Apache/Tomcat. I want to deploy this application on JBoss3.0/Jetty as part of my learning exercise. Once l get the web application working l want to deploy a simple enterprise application that l have working on WebSphere - again as a learning exercise.

What l am looking for is the structure and location of an EAR that l can use as a template for all my apps. Im thinking of deploying web apps using a WAR and not having any EJB modules in the application.xml. I want to do this so that l have a single template for all my apps. I plan to use Struts in most of my applications so l need a template that works for Struts.

So far l have added the JDBC jars for my database and struts jars to jboss-3.0.0\lib. My EAR is deployed to
jboss-3.0.0\server\all\deploy. My current directory structure from this root is

myApp.ear
  +- myEjbs.jar
  +- myClasses.jar
  +- META-INF
  |    +- application.xml
  |    +- MANIFEST.MF
  +- myWebApp.war
      +- html files
      +- jsp files
      +- WEB-INF
          +- web.xml
          +- struts-config.xml
          +- struts tld files
+- lib
| + (empty)
+- classes
+ ApplicationResources.properties

This is mostly working. JSP files are compiling and struts is finding the Action classes that l build - l have put them in myClasses.jar. Its failing on finding messages in ApplicationResources.properties.

I think lve searched every forum and newsgroup on the planet and cant find any advice on how to structure and application that uses Struts on JBoss3.0/Jetty. Im assuming there are people out there who have succeeded. How have you structured the deployment of your applications? Does anyone know the rule(s) JBoss 3.0/Jetty follows when looking for classes and other resources?

Thanks.

[mkgarnek]

Sorry about the formatting of the directory structure. Ive moved it to a text file.

[mkgarnek]

Sorry about the formatting of the directory structure. Ive moved it to a text file.

[tbfmicke]

Where do you have struts.jar? Normally it should be
in WEB-INF/lib. If it is there having ApplicationResources.properties inside WEB-INF/classes should work.

Another place to put it might be at the toplevel of myClasses.jar.

[mkgarnek]

Thanks for your reply.

I have struts.jar in jboss-3.0.0\server\all\lib (Ive done a clean up since my first post and found that l had it in a couple of places)

I've also found that Struts will find the ApplicationResources.properties file if l put it in jboss-3.0.0\server\all\deploy\myApp.ear

Ive updated the attachment to reflect my cleanup (I had duplicate files in a number of places trying to get it working initially)

Although l have something that works, it does not look right. Still hoping someone that knows where everything should go will respond.

Thanks