Need Help - Multiple parallel Ear Files.

[cfrostrun]

hello all,

I need some assistance. i'm desperately trying to figure out how to get this to work.

for explaination purposes let say i have an application. i have two clients that are wanting to use it. however they need different configuration files and deployment descriptors. i want to run them from the same jboss instance. i'm getting class cast exceptions, and i understand it's a classloading problem.

can somebody give me a list of steps that will get this working. i basically want to have "mirror" ear files with the only differences is the configuration files inside the appropriate jar/war/ear files.

i have tried a couple of different things. right now i have unique jboss.xml & ejb-jar.xml files for the jndi lookups and so they are deploying okay now. but when i try to get the remote reference that's when i'm getting the classcastexception. i have the jboss-app.xml, it is at the same level of the application.xml file. but it doesn't seem to be working.

one ear file has
<jboss-app>
<loader-repository>scbg_app:loader=scbg_test.ear</loader-repository>
</jboss-app>

the other ear file has
<jboss-app>
<loader-repository>scbg_app2:loader=scbg_test2.ear</loader-repository>
</jboss-app>


can somebody please help.

[cfrostrun]

One other thing.

i'm on jboss-3.2.1_tomcat-4.1.24, w/ jdk 1.4.2 if that matters at all.

[cfrostrun]

Okay, I'm been combing the internet for this fix. i'm really getting frustrated. i found more info about the UnifiedClassLoader.

here is my sample jboss-app.xml. but this appears not to be working.

ear file 1:
<jboss-app> <loader-repository>scbg_test.net:loader=scbg_test.ear</loader-repository>
<loader-repository-config configParserClass='org.jboss.mx.loading.LoaderRepositoryFactory.LoaderRepositoryConfigParser'>
java2ParentDelegaton=false
</loader-repository-config>
</jboss-app>

ear file 2:
<jboss-app> <loader-repository>scbg_test2.net:loader=scbg_test2.ear</loader-repository>
<loader-repository-config configParserClass='org.jboss.mx.loading.LoaderRepositoryFactory.LoaderRepositoryConfigParser'>
java2ParentDelegaton=false
</loader-repository-config>
</jboss-app>


this is really messed up. test2 works, test1 throws the class cast exception on

java.lang.ClassCastException
at com.sun.corba.se.internal.javax.rmi.PortableRemoteObject.narrow(PortableRemoteObject.java:293)
at javax.rmi.PortableRemoteObject.narrow(PortableRemoteObject.java:134)
at com.FrostyLabs.scbg.service.locators.FacadeService.getEJBHome(FacadeService.java:29)


but here's a weird thing, test2 is pulling data from database 1, instead of database 2. so its grabbing the properties files from my test 1 ear file?

what the HECK is going on?

Can Somebody please help me.

[cfrostrun]

scrap this line -- it was an ant build error
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but here's a weird thing, test2 is pulling data from database 1, instead of database 2. so its grabbing the properties files from my test 1 ear file?
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still desperating trying to figure out the jboss-app.xml problem.