The OpenEJB Tomcat support has been reworked and does support
collapsed ears. Actually it supports both the old style (ejb
globally available) and new (collapsed ear) in the same setup. The
result though is that the docs are way out of sync and there are
JIRAs to basically rewrite the Tomcat section of the docs.
The new integration basically involves putting the war file from
assembly/openejb-tomcat into Tomcat server where there is an auto
installer that performs the required steps and spits the output out.
Dain, wrote the auto installer servlet just last week -- i've never
run it.
Dain, did I get the details more or less right?
-David
On Sep 12, 2007, at 9:40 AM, Dario Laverde wrote:
hi all,
Good to see 3.1 almost there. But I'm having some problem per the
available docs:
Can you review these? I tried both on Tomcat 5.5 and 6.0 (some
notes below)
Configure OpenEJB per webapp requires the following steps:
Copy the openejb-loader-*.jar into the WEB-INF/lib directory of the
webapp that is
to use EJBs deployed onto OpenEJB
Add the loader servlet definition to the WEB-INF/web.xml file of
the webapp with a
valid value for openejb.home init-param.
<servlet>
<servlet-name>loader</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.openejb.loader.LoaderServlet</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>openejb.loader</param-name>
<param-value>tomcat-webapp</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>openejb.home</param-name>
<param-value>...define OPENEJB_HOME here...</param-value>
note: do we need openejb.home here?
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>0</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
Should you define other OpenEJB configuration settings use another
<init-param>
stanza. It's just for that. These parameters are directly passed to
OpenEJB at
initialization of the servlet. Think about the loader servlet as a
bridge between
OpenEJB's world (EJBs) and Tomcat's world (servlets, JSPs).
At startup OpenEJB prints out all of the configuration settings to
Tomcat logs:
INFO: Installing web application at context path /openejb from URL
file:C:\webapps\openejb
OpenEJB init-params:
param-name: openejb.home, param-value: c:\openejb
param-name: openejb.configuration, param-value: conf
\openejb.cfg
param-name: openejb.base, param-value: c:\webapps\openejb
\WEB-INF\openejb
param-name: openejb.loader, param-value: tomcat-webapp
Start up Tomcat and have fun with the EJBs
I looked at all the logs - no luck, do I also need to configure
bean lookups? I
thought that was done automatically..
thanks,
Dario
