jboss-web.xml and res-url

[spiritualmechanic]

In the JBoss 3.0 book I found at the bookstore, there's a mention of URL resources defined using the "res-url" tag. It's not anywhere to be found in the for-pay documentation. I would have just bought the book, but I already paid for the docs, soo ;)

Is there an updated DTD to show me how to use this correctly? Someone out there must know about it.

Steve

[ehenne]

This is a documentation bug about jboss-web.xml. It is in "The jboss-web.xml ENC Elements" as well as in the appendix "The JBoss server jboss-web.xml descriptor DTD":

The <resource-ref> element has the same form as in jboss.xml, especially when using an URL (type is "java.net.URL") you have to use <res-url> instead of <jndi-name>. I had to look up this in the jboss source.

I have not found an updated DTD.

Elmar

[spiritualmechanic]

So is this the correct format for jboss-web.xml? I grabbed this from the DTD for jboss.xml. I just want to make sure, but I'll test it anyways.

<resource-manager>
<res-name />
<res-url />
</resource-manager>

[spiritualmechanic]

I'm getting this weird error when I try to deploy my war with the URL resource:

10:43:16,210 INFO [MainDeployer] Starting deployment of package: file:/C:/www/j
boss/jboss-3.0.4/server/default/deploy/skeleton.war/
10:43:16,421 WARN [NestedThrowable] Duplicate throwable nesting of same base ty
pe: class org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentException is assignable from: class org
.jboss.deployment.DeploymentException

My jboss-web.xml has the following:

<resource-ref>
<res-name>url/Zope</res-name>
<res-url>http://dev-zope-knox01:8080/</res-url>
</resource-ref>

[spiritualmechanic]

Which package is this in? Looking at the source now.

[ehenne]

Hi,

here is an example form my jboss-web.xml, I think the res-type entry is required because they look for res-url if the type is java.net.URL:
[pre] <resource-ref>
<res-ref-name>url/CatalogDAOSQLURL</res-ref-name>
<res-type>java.net.URL</res-type>
<res-url>http://localhost:8080/petstore/CatalogDAOSQL.xml</res-url>
</resource-ref>
[/pre]The relevant source is in org.jboss.metadata.ResourceRefMetaData.importEjbJarXml()

This method is used for ejb-jar, jboss and jboss-web.

I hope this helps,
Elmar

[spiritualmechanic]

> [/pre]The relevant source is in
> org.jboss.metadata.ResourceRefMetaData.importEjbJar
> ml()

Okay, that's being executed, but that's for web.xml. The corresponding method call for jboss-web.xml is:

importJbossXml()

I added some debug logs to this class and this method isn't being called at all.

Steve

[ehenne]

Hi Steve,

yes you are right, I looked at the wrong header, importJbossXml has the relevant code for parsing res-url.

"jboss-web.xml" is loaded via importJBossWebXml which in turn calls importJbossXml for the resource-ref entries. I just looked at the sources, so I am not totally sure if it is actually called, but using res-url inside jboss-web.xml worked for me.

Elmar