nothing happens when .ear file is deployed

[mikew]

Hi All,

My simple J2EE application is made up of 2 components...one containing a couple of EJBs and one containing a Web application (containing a couple of servlets plus html pages and WEB-INF directory).

They have been packaged as a JAR file and WAR file respectively. They can both be deployed in jboss/deploy with seemingly no problem (in fact I can view the HTML pages in the WAR file no problem)

However, when I attempt to package the above as an EAR file it has the following structure:

0 Mon Apr 08 16:38:16 BST 2002 META-INF/
68 Mon Apr 08 16:38:16 BST 2002 META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
5397 Mon Apr 08 16:22:38 BST 2002 NameAge.jar
5781 Mon Apr 08 16:23:42 BST 2002 NameAge.war
368 Fri Apr 05 16:30:20 BST 2002 META-INF/application.xml

which seems OK to me(?)

BUT, when I deploy this EAR file I get an HTTP500 error when attempting to access one of the HTML pages as before.

The only thing I can think is wrong is with META-INF/application.xml.........it's contents are:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE application PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD J2EE Application 1.3//EN" "http://java.sun.com/dtd/application_1_3.dtd">



<web-uri>NameAge.war</web-uri>



NameAge.jar




Any ideas?

Many thanks,

Mike

[mikew]

Hey Feuxeu77,

Thanks for sticking with me on this!

I still can't figure out why I (we) are getting the error message: External entity not found: "http://java.sun.com/dtd/application_1_3.dtd".

however, looking at that DTD I did spot (I think) errors with my application.xml file, in that the <web-uri> and <context-root> (which I had incorrectly named "context") elements should in fact be within the scope of the element.

Unfortunately, the other error still persists!

Mike

[feuxeu77]

Hi,

Do you have any message in the JBoss console ?

[feuxeu77]

Oh, I missed the line concerning the HTTP 500 :)

I haven't put the DOCTYPE tag for application.xml in my development. I think you can remove it.

I'm using JBoss 3.0Beta and the DOCTYPE doesn't seem to be needed.

[feuxeu77]

I have tried with the DOCTYPE you gave in your first message and it works fine with JBoss 3.0Beta. What is your JBoss's Version

[feuxeu77]

Oops, I think I'm tired :)
Your JBoss version in 2.4.4
I'll try with this version

[feuxeu77]

Strange,

I have the same problem if I use 2.4.4

[mikew]

Hey Feuxeu77,

Thanks for sticking with me on this!

I still can't figure out why I (we) are getting the error message: External entity not found: "http://java.sun.com/dtd/application_1_3.dtd".

however, looking at that DTD I did spot (I think) errors with my application.xml file, in that the <web-uri> and <context-root> (which I had incorrectly named "context") elements should in fact be within the scope of the element.

Unfortunately, the other error still persists!

Mike