recently, i bought "enterprise javabeans, 4th ed" by richard
monson-haefel, bill burke and sacha labourey.

i have installations of jboss 3.2.3 (java 1.4.1) on my gentoo
linux server and jboss 4.0.0 rc2 (java 1.5.0-rc-b63) on windows
xp sp2 on my tabletpc/localhost. i strongly prefer to use the
jboss4 server as this is a) the future and b) i do prototyping
only (stability isn't an issue for me right now).

on jboss4/localhost i checked out most of the examples in the
jboss workbook included with "rmh-ejb". however, the one i needed
most, "exercise 15.1: web services and ejb 2.1" doesn't seem to
work on my local jboss4 server. first it failed to build,
probably due to deprecated/missing jboss.net support in jboss4.
so i tried to replace

<fileset dir="${jboss.home}/server/default/deploy/jboss-net.sar">

with

<fileset dir="${jboss.home}/server/default/deploy/jboss-ws4ee.sar">

on line 15 in ex15_1\build.xml

using this, ant didn't complain when building the server-side of
the example ('ant wsdl', 'ant ejbjar'). however, when restarting
jboss4, the server log reads:

12:00:09,420 INFO [EJBDeployer] Deployed:
file:/C:/jboss-4.0.0RC2/server/defaul
t/deploy/titan.jar
12:00:09,621 ERROR [ServiceDeployer] Cannot startup webservice
for: titan.jar
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: The wsdl file should be
located in: META-INF
/wsdl/

etc.

my questions:
*************

q1:
***

how can i make this example work (nicely) with jboss4? if the
example, as downloaded from
http://examples.oreilly.com/entjbeans4/workbook.zip, doesn't work
with jboss4 indeed, i'd kindly ask to release an update of it as
quickly as possible. jboss4 is suggested in the workbook and i
believe most people prefer a web service example using
jboss-ws4ee (j2ee 1.4 compliant) instead of jboss-net (the axis
way, deprecated).

q2:
***

apart from the problem described above, running the client of
exercise 15.1 threw some exceptions. do you have any idea what's
wrong here and how i can make it work in my environment (jboss4,
java 1.5.0-rc-b63, windows xp sp2)?

the following steps worked fine:

'ant clean.db'
'ant createdb'

the following threw exceptions:

C:\unison_sync\thesis\working\current\code\examples\oreilly\workbook\ex15_1>MakeReservation
1 106 1 5000.00
Buildfile: build.xml

prepare:

compile:

ejbjar:

run.client:
 [java] Exception in thread "main" java.rmi.ServerException:
RemoteException occurred in server thread; nested excep
tion is:
 [java] java.rmi.ServerException: EJBException:; nested
exception is:
 [java] javax.ejb.EJBException: failed
 [java] at
sun.rmi.server.UnicastServerRef.dispatch(UnicastServerRef.java:325)
 [java] at
sun.rmi.transport.Transport$1.run(Transport.java:153)
 [java] at
java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)

[cut]

 [java] at
org.jboss.ejb.plugins.LogInterceptor.invoke(LogInterceptor.java:191)
 [java] ... 25 more
 [java] Java Result: 1

BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 3 seconds

any help appreciated, regards

dani

p.s. it can be safely assumed that line wrappings are correct,
despite of wrong appearance above.