3 Replies Latest reply on Jan 14, 2005 12:05 PM by jbriscoe

    File System ExternalContext Problem

    jbriscoe

      I am trying to load a directory's contents into JNDI, not an LDAP directory.
      I'm using JBoss 3.2.2RC3

      My jboss-service.xml file looks like this:

      ---- Begin $JBOSS_HOME/server/default/deploy/jboss-service.xml

      mbean code="org.jboss.naming.ExternalContext" name="DefaultDomain:service=ExternalContext,jndiName=external/fs/TEMP"
      
      attribute name="JndiName" external/fs/TEMP
      attribute name="Properties" jacob_fs.properties
      attribute name="Properties" jacob_fs.properties
      attribute name="InitialContext" javax.naming.InitialContext
      

      ---- End $JBOSS_HOME/server/default/deploy/jboss-service.xml

      My properties file looks like this:

      ---- Begin $JBOSS_HOME/server/default/conf/jacob_fs.properties

      java.naming.factory.initial=com.sun.jndi.fscontext.FSContextFactory
      java.naming.provider.url=file:C:\TEMP
      

      ---- End $JBOSS_HOME/server/default/conf/jacob_fs.properties

      JBoss loads without any problems, it binds the name "external/fs/TEMP". What it does not do is recursively map the file "TEMP"'s contents, which is what I need to do.
      I've read several posts on this forum and the JBoss 2.4+ External JNDI and JNDI Viewing Docs and none have been completely helpfull. If somebody could please tell me what I'm doing wrong that would be greatly appreciated.


      Thanks in advance,
      Jacob

        • 1. Re: File System ExternalContext Problem
          jbriscoe

          After fighting with mounting a file system in JNDI with JBoss 3.2.2 I have finally solved the problem!
          I was going about some things in the wrong way first off, I needed a SAR file for the new fs external context that I was creating. The SAR's layout looks like this...

          $JBOSS_HOME/server/default/deploy/external-fs.sar
          /fscontext.jar
          /providerutil.jar
          /META-INF
          /META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
          /META-INF/jboss-service.xml

          That was my first problem that I solved, I was originally placing the jboss-service just in the deploy directory and putting the fscontext.jar & providerutil.jar in the server's lib directory.

          The second problem was the content of the jboss-service.xml file. This is what my WORKING jboss-service.xml file looks like.

          mbean code="org.jboss.naming.ExternalContext" name="jboss:service=ExternalContext,jndiName=external/fs"

          attribute name="JndiName" external/fs

          attribute name="Properties" java.naming.factory.initial=com.sun.jndi.fscontext.RefFSContextFactory
          java.naming.provider.url=file:///TEMP

          attribute name="InitialContext"
          javax.naming.InitialContext
          attribute name="RemoteAccess" false


          -- End of File...

          No documentation that I could find on this subject says that the properties attribute may be of actual Property type.
          So all of that is working now. I deployed the .sar and everything works as planned.

          I hope this helps somebody.

          Jacob

          • 2. Re: File System ExternalContext Problem
            jimkski

            Hi Jacob-

            Thanks for posting your experience with ExternalContext and JBoss 3.2.3. I'm trying to follow your recipe using 3.2.5 and its not working out. When I use JNDIView to display the directory tree I can see the ExternalContext but its lowest level stops at the end of the path I defined in the JNDI path attribute (external/fs) and after that only displays $Proxy18.

            In the examples on this site, they show all the contents of the external context displayed (even in cases where a file system is bound into the directory). The JNDIView looks like this:

             +- external (class: org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext)
             | +- fs (class: org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext)
             | | +- data (class: org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext)
             | | | +- mqfile (proxy: $Proxy18 implements interface javax.naming.Context)
            


            And my jboss-services.xml looks like this:

            <server>
            
             <!-- Specify required library jars as needed.-->
             <classpath codebase="." archives="providerutil.jar,fscontext.jar"/>
            
            
            
            <!-- Added to enable external context federation -->
             <mbean code="org.jboss.naming.ExternalContext" name="jboss.jndi:service=ExternalContext,jndiName=external/fs/data/mqfile" >
             <attribute name="JndiName">external/fs/data/mqfile</attribute>
             <attribute name="Properties">java.naming.factory.initial=com.sun.jndi.fscontext.RefFSContextFactory
            java.naming.provider.url=file:///c:/data/mqfile</attribute>
             <attribute name="InitialContext">javax.naming.InitialContext</attribute>
             <attribute name="RemoteAccess">false</attribute>
             </mbean>
            
            <!-- END: Added to enable external context federation -->
            
            
            </server>
            
            


            My sar is configured identically to yours but still no luck. Any suggestions (Jacob or anyone else)?


            Thanks,

            Jim

            • 3. Re: File System ExternalContext Problem
              jbriscoe

              Sorry for taking so long to reply...

              Layout

              You need this layout:

              C:\jboss\server\default\deploy\external-fs.sar
              You need these files here: providerutil.jar, fscontext.jar
              
              \META-INF (This directory is where you put the files you wish to mount.)
              You need these files here: jboss-service.xml, MANIFEST.MF
              
              jboss-service.xml looks like:
              
              <server>
               <mbean code="org.jboss.naming.ExternalContext" name="jboss:service=ExternalContext,jndiName=external/fs" >
               <attribute name="JndiName">external/fs</attribute>
               <attribute name="Properties">
               java.naming.factory.initial=com.sun.jndi.fscontext.RefFSContextFactory
               java.naming.provider.url=file:../server/default/deploy/external-fs.sar/META-INF
               </attribute>
               <attribute name="InitialContext">javax.naming.InitialContext</attribute>
               <attribute name="RemoteAccess">false</attribute>
               </mbean>
              </server>
              
              MANIFEST.MF looks like:
              Manifest-Version: 1.0
              Ant-Version: Apache Ant 1.5.3
              Created-By: 1.4.2_02-b03 (Sun Microsystems Inc.)
              Built-By: jabrisco
              Sealed: false
              Class-Path: /external-fs.sar/fscontext.jar /external-fs.sar/providerut
               il.jar
              
              Name: common
              Specification-Title: File System Service
              Specification-Version: 1.0
              Specification-Vendor: My Company
              
              


              And thats it! If you have any questions or this doesn't work please let me know.

              Currently I'm even running JBoss 4.x and it still works perfectly.

              Jacob