Deploying to OC4J 10.1.3.1

[jasondlee]

I have a Seam 2 app that deploys to GlassFish v2 and works fine. When I deploy it to OC4J 10.1.3.1, though, it dies in this method:

public static Component forName(String name)
{
if ( !Contexts.isApplicationContextActive() )
{
throw new IllegalStateException("No application context active");
}
return (Component) Contexts.getApplicationContext().get( name + ".component" );
}

I hove both the JSF RI and Seam Listeners installed in web.xml, and am bundling the jars with the app. Any idea what might be causing that? If I remove the Seam jars and comment out the Seam config in web.xml, the application deploys, for what that's worth.

Thanks! :)

[wise_guybg]

Have you consulted http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=SeamOC4J11g ?

[jasondlee]

Sigh. I haven't. Thanks for pointing that out. I'll try to adapt that to my app and see what happens. :)

Thanks!

[jasondlee]

OK. I now have it working. Long story short, oc4j 10.1.3 does not bundle the TLE jars. Adding that fixed the problem. I'm also bundling all the seam jars in the war and not touching the applib dir, unlike the wiki article above.

[mikepaul]

Care to add/update the wiki.
I would really appreciate to see what you did (and I think others would too).

[apushadow]

jasondlee:

Yeah, if you could update the wiki or post here on how to get OC4J to look in the war instead of only in applib that would be great. I struggled with that for days and never did figure it out, so I wrote the aforementioned wiki with the applib hack.

Also, if you've got any guidance on how to get a Seam app working on OC4J 10, that would be great as well...that was another thing I tried to do...only had luck with OC4J 11, though.

--Rich

[jasondlee]

mikepaul and apushadow,

I'd be happy to update the wiki. Let me try to distill what I've down to the base minimum (and make sure I can repeat it) and I'll update the wiki.

[jasondlee]

OK. I think I have it all figured out and documented. Please let me know if I've missed anything: http://blogs.steeplesoft.com/2007/10/17/seam-and-jpa-hibernate-on-oc4j-1013/

[supernovasoftware.com]

What were the technical and or political reasons for choosing OC4J over JBoss AS?

[pmuir]

Jason, would you mind if we used this as the basis both getting the JPA example running on oc4j and for some docs?

I created http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBSEAM-2123 and http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBSEAM-2122 in the anticipation you would be happy - can you indicate on the issues if you have a problem with this.

Thanks!

[jasondlee]

Pete, I have no problem with that at all. In fact, it was my intention to be able to do just that. I blogged there as it was easier for me to document there what I had I done, before trying to reformat it for inclusion in the Seam wiki/docs. I'm willing to help out where I can. If you want to talk in a little more realtime, feel free to email me (jason at steeplesoft dot com). I also have a couple of IM accounts we can if you'd like, which I can send you via email if you want. I'm going to try to create a self-contained example app (the app I used for this uses an external database with a fairly complex schema). I'll post that...somewhere when I'm done with it.

[jasondlee]

"supernovasoftware.com" wrote:
What were the technical and or political reasons for choosing OC4J over JBoss AS?

Well, to be honest, if I could choose, I probably would have used GlassFish, as I do (or have done) fair amount of EE5 work. When JBoss 5 ships (and, thus, fully EE5 compatibility), that would be a more viable option for me (though I hear 4.2 would get me pretty close -- and maybe close enough -- to full compatibility. I'm using oc4j, though, as my employer (the FAA) has adopted that app server as the production environment. Drats! :P

[supernovasoftware.com]

Thank you for your reply.

I figured as much for the choice of OC4J.

What is the features of Glassfish are you using that are not in JBoss AS 4.x and what are you looking for in JBoss 5.x?

[jasondlee]

"supernovasoftware.com" wrote:
Thank you for your reply.

I figured as much for the choice of OC4J.

What is the features of Glassfish are you using that are not in JBoss AS 4.x and what are you looking for in JBoss 5.x?

Well, long story short, when I first got started with GlassFish and EE5, JBoss' support for EE5 wasn't NEAR as good as GF's. You can read more about our reasonings (such as they are) here: http://blogs.sun.com/stories/entry/international_environmental

JBoss 4.2 likely adds everything I would need or want (full EJB3 compliance, JPA, JSF), but, with all due respect to the JBoss AS guys, there's not enough compelling reasons for me to switch from GF (with which I'm *very* familiar) to JBoss (though if my employer were to adopt JBoss, I'd be very happy). I hope that was diplomatic enough. :) hehe

[supernovasoftware.com]

Thanks. Very informative. I did not expect a full Q&A interview. I am also a small shop and and glad to see that you are moving in the same direction.

We use strictly PostgreSQL and EJB3. I am using Seam 2.0 and AS 4.2.1.