netboot - still supported?

[numbsafari]

I am researching netboot installations. I found JBAS-1670:

http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-1670

"netboot service of JBossAS is broken"

And see that it has been open for over a year without being fixed.

Is netboot still a supported configuration or is it not supported? Are other people using it? Searching the forums shows a lot of posts that go unanswered, so I'm wodering if this is something forgotten.

Thanks in advance,

Sam Wilson
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PS. I'm setting this up right now, but I was searching for docs and a lot of the doc links around this seem broken, which led me to looking to see if people are using it. I'll be back to document what I find...

[numbsafari]

I have my first issue:

I installed JBoss-4.0.3SP1. I copied docs/examples/netboot/netboot.war into my server/all/deploy directory. I ran "run -c all".

If I browse to http://localhost:8080/netboot/listContent.jsp, I get the following error:


org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to compile class for JSP

An error occurred at line: 5 in the jsp file: /listContent.jsp
Generated servlet error:
The method replaceProperties(String) is undefined for the type Strings


org.apache.jasper.compiler.DefaultErrorHandler.javacError(DefaultErrorHandler.java:84)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.javacError(ErrorDispatcher.java:328)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.JDTCompiler.generateClass(JDTCompiler.java:397)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:288)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:267)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:255)
org.apache.jasper.JspCompilationContext.compile(JspCompilationContext.java:556)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:293)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:314)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:264)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:810)
org.jboss.netboot.TrivialDavFilter.doFilter(TrivialDavFilter.java:55)
org.jboss.web.tomcat.filters.ReplyHeaderFilter.doFilter(ReplyHeaderFilter.java:81)


It appears as though this file depends on an outdated version of the class org.jboss.util.Strings.

I'll avoid using this JSP...

[numbsafari]

I have been going over the docs and searching the web for any information. So far, it appears as though this is no longer supported or, at least, has been broken for over a year.

Neither the binary or source distribution contains a build-netboot.xml, as per the documentation. The run.bat script does not set the correct classpath. The documentation fails to mention that only packed deployments will work (you must figure this out from searching what little there is available on the web). In addition, many related pages seem to have been removed from the JBoss website.

I find it very funny that some people are purporting to offer training classes that include using netboot when this functionality doesn't even work.