HOWTO - Run bookings example from Eclipse
franciscoperedo Feb 26, 2008 12:03 AMHi!
I am trying to understand conversation-scoped extended persistence contexts, and, to do that, I decided to create my own example... but I coudln't make it work, so I decided to try the bookings example, but, since I develop my stuff using eclipse and jboss-tools I decided to create a new seam project from eclipse and copy the source from the bookings example inside it...
But it doesn't work...
After googling a while I found with this guide but seems to be very obsolete information.
So I decided to compare my war with the war generated by running the example directly with ant...
It turns out it is not a WAR!! it is an EAR!!!
So I tried adding an EAR to my WorkSpace an linking my Seam project to it... and I was finally able to deploy succesfully... but as soon as I try to visit the index page i get:
16:15:11,000 ERROR [SeamPhaseListener] uncaught exception java.lang.IllegalStateException: Could not commit transaction at org.jboss.seam.jsf.SeamPhaseListener.commitOrRollback(SeamPhaseListener.java:602) at org.jboss.seam.jsf.SeamPhaseListener.handleTransactionsAfterPhase(SeamPhaseListener.java:330) at org.jboss.seam.jsf.SeamPhaseListener.afterServletPhase(SeamPhaseListener.java:231) at org.jboss.seam.jsf.SeamPhaseListener.afterPhase(SeamPhaseListener.java:182) at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.phase(LifecycleImpl.java:280) at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.execute(LifecycleImpl.java:117) at javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:244) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) at org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:83) at org.jboss.seam.debug.hot.HotDeployFilter.doFilter(HotDeployFilter.java:68) at org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:69) at org.jboss.seam.web.MultipartFilter.doFilter(MultipartFilter.java:85) at org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:69) at org.jboss.seam.web.ExceptionFilter.doFilter(ExceptionFilter.java:64) at org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:69) at org.jboss.seam.web.RedirectFilter.doFilter(RedirectFilter.java:45) at org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:69) at org.ajax4jsf.webapp.BaseXMLFilter.doXmlFilter(BaseXMLFilter.java:141) at org.ajax4jsf.webapp.BaseFilter.doFilter(BaseFilter.java:281) at org.jboss.seam.web.Ajax4jsfFilter.doFilter(Ajax4jsfFilter.java:60) at org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:69) at org.jboss.seam.web.LoggingFilter.doFilter(LoggingFilter.java:58) at org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:69) at org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamFilter.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:158) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) at org.jboss.web.tomcat.filters.ReplyHeaderFilter.doFilter(ReplyHeaderFilter.java:96) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:230) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:175) at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.SecurityAssociationValve.invoke(SecurityAssociationValve.java:179) at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.JaccContextValve.invoke(JaccContextValve.java:84) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102) at org.jboss.web.tomcat.service.jca.CachedConnectionValve.invoke(CachedConnectionValve.java:157) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:262) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:844) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:583) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:446) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595) Caused by: org.jboss.seam.InstantiationException: Could not instantiate Seam component: org.jboss.seam.transaction.synchronizations at org.jboss.seam.Component.newInstance(Component.java:1970) at org.jboss.seam.Component.getInstance(Component.java:1873) at org.jboss.seam.Component.getInstance(Component.java:1852) at org.jboss.seam.Component.getInstance(Component.java:1846) at org.jboss.seam.transaction.AbstractUserTransaction.getSynchronizations(AbstractUserTransaction.java:79) at org.jboss.seam.transaction.UTTransaction.commit(UTTransaction.java:48) at org.jboss.seam.jsf.SeamPhaseListener.commitOrRollback(SeamPhaseListener.java:592) ... 42 more Caused by: javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: EjbSynchronizations not bound at org.jnp.server.NamingServer.getBinding(NamingServer.java:529) at org.jnp.server.NamingServer.getBinding(NamingServer.java:537) at org.jnp.server.NamingServer.getObject(NamingServer.java:543) at org.jnp.server.NamingServer.lookup(NamingServer.java:267) at org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:667) at org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:627) at javax.naming.InitialContext.lookup(InitialContext.java:351) at org.jboss.seam.Component.instantiateSessionBean(Component.java:1287) at org.jboss.seam.Component.instantiate(Component.java:1273) at org.jboss.seam.Component.newInstance(Component.java:1966) ... 48 more
After further examination of the EAR that is produced by using ant directly I realized that there was a major difference with my project... that EAR is composed by 2 sub modules
: jboss-seam-booking.war and jboss-seam-booking.jar.
But my project only has 1 sumodule: booking.war.
It seems that the offical bookings example project splits the java output and the xhtml/jsf pages in to places, and the file application.xml is aware of this and registers jboss-seam-booking.jar as an ejb module... but that is not possible with my eclipse aplication where everything is mixed in to the .war.
What should I do? is it possible to use conversation-scoped extended persistence contexts like the ones in the booking example from an eclipse jboss tools based application? what am I missing?
Regards,