JBoss Portal + EJB 3.0? is it possible?

[psherif]

Hello everybody,
my company is working on project to create a web portal supposedly using JBoss Portal.
The problem is we also want to use EJB 3.0, and up till now none of us has been able to make Jboss Portal (2.01/2.00) and EJB3.0 run in the same Jboss server, even trying different constellations of ejb and jboss versions.
The result was that either the EJB3trailer ran OR the Portal.

I also searched alot in the forums and on the jboss pages, but found nothing really useful, especially nothing describing the Portal requirements when using it in a JBoss server differing from the one in the bundle.

So my question is, if this is at all possible, and if so could someone PLEASE post a little description of how to do it?

I was also wondering if there is any documentation at all about using and extending Jboss Portals User Management in a way that we can suit it to our custom Portal.

Any Help would be greatly appreciated.

greetings,
Patric

[bdaw]

JBP2.0 and EJB is used by JBoss Labs - in JBoss Forge and JBoss Wiki

Look at:
http://labs.jboss.com/portal/index.html?ctrl:id=page.default.info&project=jbosslabs
http://labs.jboss.com/portal/index.html?ctrl:id=window.default.WikiPortletWindow&ctrl:type=action&page=WhatIsJBossForge
http://labs.jboss.com/portal/index.html?ctrl:id=page.default.info&project=jbosswiki

You can find working example in this projects.
And I think that you need portal 2.0.1RC3 (it should work on jboss as 4.0.3sp1) for ejb3

[szimano]

Just install 4.0.3sp1 from installer with EJB3 and use 2.0.1RC3 Portal that can be obtained here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=22866&package_id=84509&release_id=353715

Cheers,
Tomek


ps. If EJB3 Trailblazer doesn't work... don't worry - EJB3 changes dramatically form version to version (vide: @Inject is now @PersistanceContext) so EJB3 TrailBlazer may not work ;-)

[psherif]

thanks alot, we will check it out :)

I'll post the results later.

[psherif]

I finally got around to have a look at your suggestions.
Concerning the project links, fllowing them i fear i was unable to find anything relating to my question, and looking at their sourcecode probably won't help me cause its the jboss setup im interested in.

I tried JBoss 4.0.3sp1 from installer choosing the ejb3 setting, and leaving everything else at default ( since don't have that much experience with jboss and its related services ) .

I fetched the Jboss Portal 2.0.1rc3 and copied it along with portal-mysql-ds.xml, into the servers /default/deploy dir. the mysql connector went to /default/lib.

So everything as usual, but when starting jboss i get multiple exceptions,
from the main deployer, from portal about some non registered hibernate related stuff, and finally a nullpointer exception when trying to access the portal.

I noticed that the deploy directory is by default considerably less crowded than in other jboss installations- maybe im missing some services here?
the Hibernate deployer, or something else?

or do i I have to change something in the portal before building it to adjust it to jboss 4.03?

I'm clueless here, some more hints or better a full desription of the necessary jboss setup/config would be great .

btw ejbtrailblazer works again with this setup lol

[psherif]

Since nobody seems to know anything specific or cares enough to post it, i'll post our working JBoss setup, which one of our guys figured out.

Working EJB3.0 + JBoss Portal 2.01RC3 on Jboss AS 4.03SP1 :

1.Install JBoss AS 4.03SP1 from installer choosing EJB3 support
2.get a standard zipped version of Jboss AS 4.03SP1
3.copy mail.jar, mail-plugin.jar activation.jar from /server/default/lib/ of the zipped
jboss to your installed Jboss /server/default/lib/. Also copy mail-service.xml from the zipped Jboss, directory is /server/default/deploy.
4. Deploy JBoss Portal 2.01RC3 according to the documentation.
that should should do the trick.

optionally if it still doesnt work:
5. make sure that the jboss-portal.sar\conf\hibernate\hibernate.cfg.xml
contains the right dialect for your DB - for example you need "org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect" for MySQL
6.check if your datasource descriptor portal-*-ds.xml describes the same datasource names that are referenced in jboss-portal.sar\META-INF\jboss-service.xml and
jboss-portal.sar\portal-cms.sar\META-INF\jboss-service.xml
for example "NoTxPortalDS_2_0_0" and "PortalDS_2_0_0".

Hope this helps.

greetings,
Patric