Seam on Tomcat without ejb3

[lucluc]

Is it possibile to not include jboss-ejb3-all.jar in the WAR deployed to Tomcat?
If I don't include it, during Tomcat startup, I get an error because Seam is searching for javax/ejb/stateful.
I noted that in hibernate example (only javabeans) this jar is included too.
I would prefer to not include it beacuse of the size (approx 8MB) that slows down the download to client.
thanks in advance

Configuration:
Seam 1.0.1.GA
Tomcat 5.5.17


INFO 03-10 13:14:06,546 (Http11BaseProtocol.java:init:144) -Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
INFO 03-10 13:14:06,546 (Catalina.java:load:511) -Initialization processed in 656 ms
INFO 03-10 13:14:06,640 (StandardService.java:start:442) -Starting service Catalina
INFO 03-10 13:14:06,656 (StandardEngine.java:start:431) -Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/5.5.17
INFO 03-10 13:14:06,671 (StandardHost.java:start:716) -XML validation disabled
INFO 03-10 13:14:07,312 (HostConfig.java:deployWAR:788) -Deploying web application archive SeamWar.war
INFO 03-10 13:14:08,140 (FacesConfigurator.java:feedStandardConfig:151) -Reading standard config org/apache/myfaces/re
source/standard-faces-config.xml
INFO 03-10 13:14:08,187 (FacesConfigurator.java:feedClassloaderConfigurations:250) -Reading config jar:file:/C:/apache
-tomcat-5.5.17/webapps/SeamWar/WEB-INF/lib/jboss-seam-debug.jar!/META-INF/faces-config.xml
INFO 03-10 13:14:08,203 (FacesConfigurator.java:feedClassloaderConfigurations:250) -Reading config jar:file:/C:/apache
-tomcat-5.5.17/webapps/SeamWar/WEB-INF/lib/jboss-seam-ui.jar!/META-INF/faces-config.xml
INFO 03-10 13:14:08,203 (FacesConfigurator.java:feedClassloaderConfigurations:250) -Reading config jar:file:/C:/apache
-tomcat-5.5.17/webapps/SeamWar/WEB-INF/lib/jboss-seam.jar!/META-INF/faces-config.xml
INFO 03-10 13:14:08,218 (FacesConfigurator.java:feedClassloaderConfigurations:250) -Reading config jar:file:/C:/apache
-tomcat-5.5.17/webapps/SeamWar/WEB-INF/lib/jsf-facelets.jar!/META-INF/faces-config.xml
INFO 03-10 13:14:08,234 (FacesConfigurator.java:feedWebAppConfig:411) -Reading config /WEB-INF/faces-config.xml
WARN 03-10 13:14:08,328 (LocaleUtils.java:toLocale:52) -Locale name in faces-config.xml null or empty, setting locale
to default locale : it_IT
INFO 03-10 13:14:08,515 (StartupServletContextListener.java:initFaces:96) -ServletContext 'C:\apache-tomcat-5.5.17\web
apps\SeamWar\' initialized.
INFO 03-10 13:14:08,515 (SeamListener.java:contextInitialized:31) -Welcome to Seam 1.0.1.GA
INFO 03-10 13:14:08,531 (Initialization.java:initPropertiesFromXml:119) -reading components.xml
DEBUG 03-10 13:14:08,671 (Initialization.java:loadFromResource:247) -not found: /seam.properties
DEBUG 03-10 13:14:08,671 (Initialization.java:loadFromResource:247) -not found: /jndi.properties
DEBUG 03-10 13:14:08,671 (Initialization.java:loadFromResource:247) -not found: /seam-jndi.properties
INFO 03-10 13:14:08,671 (Initialization.java:init:192) -initializing Seam
ERROR 03-10 13:14:08,718 (StandardContext.java:listenerStart:3733) -Exception sending context initialized event to list
ener instance of class org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamListener
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/ejb/Stateful
at org.jboss.seam.Seam.getComponentType(Seam.java:60)
at org.jboss.seam.Component.(Component.java:172)
at org.jboss.seam.Component.(Component.java:159)
at org.jboss.seam.Component.(Component.java:154)
at org.jboss.seam.Component.(Component.java:149)
at org.jboss.seam.init.Initialization.addComponent(Initialization.java:381)
at org.jboss.seam.init.Initialization.addComponents(Initialization.java:255)
at org.jboss.seam.init.Initialization.init(Initialization.java:195)
at org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamListener.contextInitialized(SeamListener.java:32)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:3729)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4187)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:759)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:739)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:524)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:809)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWARs(HostConfig.java:698)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:472)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1122)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:310)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1021)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:718)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1013)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:442)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:450)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:709)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:551)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:294)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:432)
ERROR 03-10 13:14:08,750 (StandardContext.java:start:4188) -Error listenerStart
ERROR 03-10 13:14:08,750 (StandardContext.java:start:4215) -Context [/SeamWar] startup failed due to previous errors
DEBUG 03-10 13:14:08,750 (Lifecycle.java:endApplication:130) -Undeploying, destroying application context
DEBUG 03-10 13:14:08,750 (Contexts.java:destroy:184) -destroying: org.jboss.seam.properties
DEBUG 03-10 13:14:08,765 (Contexts.java:destroy:184) -destroying: org.apache.catalina.jsp_classpath
DEBUG 03-10 13:14:08,765 (Contexts.java:destroy:184) -destroying: javax.servlet.context.tempdir
DEBUG 03-10 13:14:08,765 (Contexts.java:destroy:184) -destroying: org.apache.myfaces.shared_impl.webapp.webxml.WebXml
DEBUG 03-10 13:14:08,765 (Contexts.java:destroy:184) -destroying: org.apache.myfaces.webapp.StartupServletContextListen
er.FACES_INIT_DONE
DEBUG 03-10 13:14:08,781 (Contexts.java:destroy:184) -destroying: org.apache.myfaces.config.RuntimeConfig
DEBUG 03-10 13:14:08,781 (Contexts.java:destroy:184) -destroying: org.apache.catalina.resources
DEBUG 03-10 13:14:08,781 (Contexts.java:destroy:184) -destroying: org.apache.catalina.WELCOME_FILES
INFO 03-10 13:14:09,203 (ApplicationContext.java:log:646) -org.apache.webapp.balancer.BalancerFilter: init(): ruleChai
n: [org.apache.webapp.balancer.RuleChain: [org.apache.webapp.balancer.rules.URLStringMatchRule: Target string: News / Re
direct URL: http://www.cnn.com], [org.apache.webapp.balancer.rules.RequestParameterRule: Target param name: paramName /
Target param value: paramValue / Redirect URL: http://www.yahoo.com], [org.apache.webapp.balancer.rules.AcceptEverything
Rule: Redirect URL: http://jakarta.apache.org]]
INFO 03-10 13:14:09,437 (ApplicationContext.java:log:646) -ContextListener: contextInitialized()
INFO 03-10 13:14:09,453 (ApplicationContext.java:log:646) -SessionListener: contextInitialized()
INFO 03-10 13:14:09,578 (ApplicationContext.java:log:646) -ContextListener: contextInitialized()
INFO 03-10 13:14:09,593 (ApplicationContext.java:log:646) -SessionListener: contextInitialized()
INFO 03-10 13:14:09,781 (Http11BaseProtocol.java:start:156) -Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
INFO 03-10 13:14:10,031 (ChannelSocket.java:init:374) -JK: ajp13 listening on /0.0.0.0:8009
INFO 03-10 13:14:10,031 (JkMain.java:start:343) -Jk running ID=0 time=0/31 config=null
INFO 03-10 13:14:10,093 (StoreLoader.java:load:229) -Find registry server-registry.xml at classpath resource
INFO 03-10 13:14:10,140 (Catalina.java:start:559) -Server startup in 3594 ms

[gavin.king]

There is a smaller jar that just contains the EJB3 standard annotations and interfaces. Its small. You could include that instead.

[lucluc]

Do you mean

jboss-ejb3.jar (19 kB)
jboss-annotations-ejb3.jar (31 kB)

distributed with ejb3.deployer?
I'll give it a try.

thanks Gavin.

[lucluc]

It works!

Now libraries are 7.5 MB instead of default 20 MB.
I wonder if it's possible to slim it down again to reach the size of 3-4 MB.
Is there a plan to supply a truly minimal set of libraries along with the standard distribution which already has jboss-all.jar, hibernate-all.jar and so on? I think it could be very useful in those cases where the application is distributed to clients.

Mi set of library is actualy composed by (in KB):

hibernate3.jar 2063
xercesImpl 1176
commons-collections-3.1.jar 547
myfaces-impl-1.1.3.jar 512
jboss-seam.jar 438
jboss-common.jar 419
jboss-xml-binding.jar 389
hibernate-annotations.jar 331
cglib.jar 321
dom4j.jar 297
jsf-facelets.jar 285
myfaces-api-1.1.3.jar 247
jboss-microcontainer.jar 211
xml-apis.jar 190
commons-beanutils-1.7.0.jar 185
concurrent.jar 167
commons-digester-1.6.jar 165
el-ri.jar 96
jboss-container.jar 59
jboss-seam-ui.jar 54
ejb3-persistence.jar 49
jboss-annotations-ejb3.jar 31
my-jms.jar 26
el-api.jar 24
jboss-dependency.jar 20
jboss-ejb3.jar 19
jstl.jar 17
jboss-seam-debug.jar 5
namespace.jar 3

where my-jms.jar contains temporarily all jms related classes (I still haven't found the official package...)

[seam_starter]

Did anyone manage to find a solution to this ...


Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class org.jboss.seam.servle
t.SeamListener
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/ejb/Stateful
at org.jboss.seam.Seam.getComponentType(Seam.java:60)
at org.jboss.seam.Component.(Component.java:172)
at org.jboss.seam.Component.(Component.java:159)
at org.jboss.seam.Component.(Component.java:154)


I tried removing the ejb3-all.jar and that breaks my build. So I have to add it.

[gavin.king]

Seam 1.1.BETA2 is much less dependent upon EJB3, so you can run w/o the ejb3 jars.

[seam_starter]

Thanks Gavin,
What I realised is I hit a big blunder while reading the installation instructions. The jboss that i installed SHOULD/MUST use the ejb profile. I selected the "all". So I reinstalled jboss with ejb profile and bingo!!!.

Thanks tho, for the quick response. I wil try to make my project ejb3 independant now.

[kasim]

Seam 1.1.BETA2 is much less dependent upon EJB3, so you can run w/o the ejb3 jars.

I am curious what do you mean by that?

Whats the big change?

[gavin.king]

I'm just careful about what classes import javax.ejb.