[seam-dev] seam-booking from CR3 preliminary testing results on WebSphere v8 beta

[Denis Forveille]

(Reply In plain text this time...)

> Oops. I was looking at the class, not the constructor. I'll fix in HEAD. You
> can go ahead and file a JIRA for reference.

It seems you create them before me..lol

>>
>> Missing jar in CR3 distribution. Both were included in CR2
>> - ocpsoft-pretty-time.jar (Used by
>> org.jboss.seam.examples.booking.booking.BookingAgent)
>> - prettyfaces-jsf2.jar. Not sure for this one, but there is a file name
>> pretty-config.xml under WEB-INF...Maybe this is the later
>> file that should not be there.
>
> Yep, both are needed for the example.

Two other missing jars in CR3
- commons-beanutils.jar
- commons-digester

Also there is a problem with the slf4j jar files in CR3:
- slf4j-api.jar is at version 1.6.1
- slf4j-log4j12.jar is at version 1.5.10
It was OK in CR2 (Both were at version 1.5.10)

>>
>> And now I'm stuck with this exception at startup:
>>
>> An error occured while initializing MyFaces: null
>>      java.util.NoSuchElementException
>>     at java.util.HashMap$AbstractMapIterator.makeNext(HashMap.java:124)
>>     at java.util.HashMap$KeyIterator.next(HashMap.java:195)
>>     at
>> org.jboss.seam.faces.event.AbstractListener.getListeners(AbstractListener.java:27)
>>     at
>> org.jboss.seam.faces.event.DelegatingSystemEventListener.getEventListeners(DelegatingSystemEventListener.java:48)
>>     at
>> org.jboss.seam.faces.event.DelegatingSystemEventListener.processEvent(DelegatingSystemEventListener.java:36)
>
> Ah, chances are Seam Faces is assuming that a class will in fact be a bean.

FYI, at line "AbstractListener.java:27" the bean in question is
"org.jboss.seam.faces.event.SystemEventBridge"

It seems also that I have problem with OpenJPA included in WAS v8.
Is Seam 3 compatible with OpenJPA? (Seam 2 was not) or do I have to
use Hibernate?
If Seam 3 is "OpenJPA friendly", do I still have to include
seam-transaction in my WAR?
I guess that seam-booking does not use the seam-managed em..

> Denis, would you be able to provide the steps to get websphere v8 running so
> that other people in the community (and team) can get up to speed testing on
> websphere? I'm looking for the download link, requirements to get the
> download and how to get to a running state ready to accept deployments.

You can get WAS v8 here: [1].You need an IBM account but I think you
can easily create one
There are links to the code, to the forums etc
The site explains how to install it
Basic steps to have WAS v8 running
- you install IBM Installation Manager
- from there you add the "repository" where the code for WAS v8 has
been unzipped
- you install WAS v8
- you create a WAS "profile" (=1 instance/server/jvm). The
installation manager should propose this as soon as the code is
installed. By default the profile will be AppSrv01 with a "server"
name server1
- by default your apps will be available on port 9080 and the console on 9060
- go to <install_dir>/profiles/AppSrv01/bin
- ./startServer server1 to start
- ./stopServer server1 to stop (must add credentials if you activated
the security when create the profile)


I'm using the latest version from RSA v8.0.2 based on eclipse v3.6.2
(Rational Software Architect = RAD -Rational Application Developper -
with the modelling extensions) and the latest WAS v8 beta. I'm
composing "by hand"  an eclipse project wit the sema-booking files and
needed jars and deploy from there. Very easy...
If you don't have RAD v8 or RSA v8, I don't think it is possible to do
that from a plain eclipse install (the WAS "connector/server" is
missing I think)
There is a "rapid deployment" mode in WAS v8 that is supposed to work
as the webapp folder in tomcat but never played with it (Check the
infocenter here : [2])

Or you can build an EAR (or WAR) file and deploy it at the console.
Connect to the console http://localhost:9060/admin by default, then on
the left menu "Applications/application types/WebSphere Enterprise
applications", clik on install, give the name of the EAR or WAR file
and click on next a couple of times...Connections pools are defined
via menu "ressources/JDBC/data sources" at the console

I'm aware that  this is a *very quick* introduction, send me private
mails if you are stuck somewhere...Or I could find some time to
describe the procedure in more detail as soon as seam-booking is
starting on WAS v8

[1] https://www14.software.ibm.com/iwm/web/cc/earlyprograms/websphere/wsasoa/index.shtml
[2] http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/beta/topic/com.ibm.websphere.base.doc/info/aes/ae/trun_app_install_dragdrop.html

> Thanks,
> -Dan
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