APR native connector not starting JBoss EAP 6.2

[antlia]

Hi to all,

I'm using VAADIN 7.2 and JBoss EAP 6.2.

In this version of the Vaadin framework, it has been adopted a version of Atmosphere (2.1.2) which requires APR Native connector on JBoss.

• I've downloaded the libraries for my SO version (binaries 2.0.9-linux2 x64)
• Added the following entry to my domain.conf file: JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -Djava.library.path=/home/myname/jboss-utils/native"
• Changed web subsystem in my domain.xml:

<subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:web:1.5" default-virtual-server="default-host" instance-id="${jboss.node.name}" native="true">

But even following these step, JBoss continues to say:

09:59:45,753 INFO  [org.apache.coyote.http11] (MSC service thread 1-8) JBWEB003001: Coyote HTTP/1.1 initializing on : http-/192.168.2.198:80

09:59:45,825 INFO  [org.apache.coyote.ajp] (MSC service thread 1-1) JBWEB003046: Starting Coyote AJP/1.3 on ajp-/192.168.2.198:8009

09:59:45,846 INFO  [org.apache.coyote.http11] (MSC service thread 1-8) JBWEB003000: Coyote HTTP/1.1 starting on: http-/192.168.2.198:80

and not:

15:13:11,110 INFO [org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11AprProtocol] (MSC service thread 1-8) Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-/192.168.2.198:80

as expected

and the connector is not started in native mode, because Atmosphere throws this exception:

java.lang.IllegalStateException: JBoss failed to detect this is a Comet application because the APR Connector is not enabled.

[ctomc]

I would recommend you to upgrade to EAP 6.3 (not GA yet) which has proper web socket support without any need for APR connector.

[antlia]

Hi Tomaz,

thanks for your response, but I cannot update JBoss version because it's a legacy component on the infrastructure I'm using...in addiction to this it seems that our version of Atmosphere doesn't support websockets as well as it supports long polling with native APR connectors.

So, is there a way to make these connectors working on EAP 6.2?

[hamza.bartanwala]

I am facing exactly similar issue where the APR connector is not getting enabled on JBoss 6.2 (Windows 32-bits). I read it on one of the threads on JBoss that APR connectors are not supported for 32-bits Windows (Enabling APR connector on JBoss 5.0.0 GA). Can anyone please confirm.