Ah that helps clarify things, thanks David. And was the classloader issue with Tomcat 6 resolved as well? (you had mentioned there was one back in April on the Tomcat list).
sorry for the double post, Dario > 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 >> >> > >
