Re: [openejb-user] OpenEJB 1.0 and Tomcat 5.5 finally working together

[Lajos]

David Blevins wrote:
Great.  OpenEJB now supports the whole one-OpenEJB-per-webapp thing, which 
I think people will really like.  If you wanted to write a FlashGuide for that, 
I'd be very happy to link to it from openejb.org.
I have found some curious errors in testing this. What I did was to copy 
the openejb-loader*.jar to my web application WEB-INF/lib directory. I 
edited WEB-INF/web.xml per the instructions:

<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>/usr/local/share/openejb1</param-value>
    </init-param>
    <load-on-startup>0</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
In Tomcat 4 and 5, this generated a ClassNotFoundException for 
org.openejb.OpenEJB, from:

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/openejb/OpenEJB
	at org.openejb.loader.EmbeddedLoader.load(EmbeddedLoader.java:59)
	at org.openejb.loader.EmbeddingLoader.load(EmbeddingLoader.java:82)
	at 
org.openejb.client.LocalInitialContextFactory.getInitialContext(LocalInitialContextFactory.java:68)

It seems like the classpath thingy isn't working right?
Another problem is that, if you leave out the "openejb.loader" 
init-param, embedded OpenEJB loads just fine. However, you can't access 
any beans from that web application! For example, if I have this in my 
WEB-INF/web.xml:

<servlet>
    <servlet-name>loader</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>org.openejb.loader.LoaderServlet</servlet-class>
    <init-param>
      <param-name>openejb.home</param-name>
      <param-value>/usr/local/share/openejb1</param-value>
    </init-param>
    <load-on-startup>0</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
I get the lovely ClassCastException at PortableRemoteObject.narrow. Is 
that the expected behavior?

For the record, I'm getting the bean reference thusly:
  Properties p = new Properties();
  p.put("java.naming.factory.initial",
    "org.openejb.client.LocalInitialContextFactory");
  javax.naming.InitialContext ctx = new javax.naming.InitialContext(p);
  Object obj = ctx.lookup("/SimpleTest");


The webadmin app doesn't seem to work, but I'll have to keep investigating.
The only other problem I found were some project.xml errors, noted in my 
FlashGuide (wrong j2ee version & jta dependency missing). Don't know if 
you want me to make the changes or whether someone else can.

Hammer away.
It appears I don't have any CVS permissions. Is there another way?
Regards,
Lajos

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