Expanding .ear's
Hi,
I have an .ear file wich contains a .war module and an ejb .jar module as well.
The .war uses the entity beans in the ejb .jar.
When I drop the .ear file in my /deploy directory everything works wonderful! .... but I need to be able to have my .ear expanded! I've done what i've read so far - > created a folder called xxx.ear under the /deploy directory and then under the /deploy/xxx.ear/ i've created a /deploy/xxx.ear/xxx.war and a /deploy/xxx.ear/xxx.jar file for the .war and ejb .jar modules and expanded them into their respective directorys.
I now get problems when i startup. The .war has problems referencing the ejb:
11:23:19,649 INFO [EJBDeployer] Deployed: file:/C:/jboss-3.2.1_tomcat-4.1.24/server/ruleengine/deploy/RuleEngin
e.ear/RuleEngineEJB.jar/
11:23:19,821 INFO [EmbeddedCatalinaService41] deploy, ctxPath=/MiddleTier, warUrl=file:/C:/jboss-3.2.1_tomca
t-4.1.24/server/ruleengine/tmp/deploy/server/ruleengine/deploy/RuleEngine.ear/MiddleTier.war/54.MiddleTier
.war
11:23:19,821 ERROR [EjbUtil] Can't locate deploymentInfo for target: file:/C:/jboss-3.2.1_tomcat-4.1.24/server/r
uleengine/deploy/RuleEngine.ear/RuleEngineEJB.jar
11:23:19,837 ERROR [MainDeployer] could not start deployment: file:/C:/jboss-3.2.1_tomcat-4.1.24/server/ruleengi
ne/deploy/RuleEngine.ear/MiddleTier.war
org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentException: Error during deploy; - nested throwable: (javax.naming.NamingException
: ejb-local-ref: ejb/ruleengine, target not found, add valid ejb-link)
at org.jboss.web.AbstractWebContainer.start(AbstractWebContainer.java:369)
at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.start(MainDeployer.java:832)
...
...
Here is my web.xml :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN" "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd">
<web-app id="WebApp">
<display-name>MiddleTier</display-name>
...
<ejb-local-ref>
<ejb-ref-name>ejb/ruleengine</ejb-ref-name>
<ejb-ref-type>Session</ejb-ref-type>
<local-home>com.bralar.ruleengine.ejb.RuleEngineLocalHome</local-home>
com.bralar.ruleengine.ejb.RuleEngineLocal
<ejb-link>RuleEngineEJB.jar#RuleEngine</ejb-link>
</ejb-local-ref>
</web-app>
I read that i might have to add a jboss-web.xml file in the deploy/xxx.ear/xxx.war/web-inf/ directory.. i've tired that with the same error.
Any help would be great!!! Thanks,
Jules