JBoss - multiple vagueness

[Dave Elwood]

Now I've got JBoss 4.0.0 on my machine

GettingStarted.pdf tells me how to do something (?) (deploy?) the
Dukes-bank application from Sun J2EE :

1. "Next, you'll need to edit the jboss-build.properties file in the j2eetutorial14"

There is no directory j2eetutorials (!)
and there is nowhere a jboss-build.properties (!) file under my
D:/JBoss-4.0.0 directory

2. So in j2ee-build.xml of the example application I merely change every instance of ${java.home} to D:/JBoss-4.0.0.

That brings me farther.

Now ant will not finish the j2ee-build.xml file because it cannot find the 'com/sun/ebank/ejb/account/AccountController' class or interface or object.

I've never worked with any software like this JBoss. And I've never seen in my 20 years such a junky-written documention. Broken links are the least of the problems.

They write like this : You must first install the X, but before the X you must install the Y. And when you install the Y make sure you have the Z beforehand.

Should I chuck JBoss and try EJBs on Sun's Application Server?

What do you pros think?

[Jaikiran Pai]

and there is nowhere a jboss-build.properties (!) file under my
D:/JBoss-4.0.0 directory

The getting started document mentions:

You should be able to obtain the supplementary JBoss files from the same place as this document. The file is packaged as a ZIP archive called jbossj2ee-src.zip.

You can download the getting started guide and this jbossj2ee-src.zip from here. This page has a "Download" link for "JBoss AS Getting Started Guide 4.0.4 May 22, 2006". Just click on it and you will get the getting started guide as well as the jbossj2ee-src.zip.

Should I chuck JBoss and try EJBs on Sun's Application Server?

No

[Andrew Monkhouse]

Dave,

As you can see, there are people who are more than willing to help you with JBoss issues. If you would like, we can move this topic to the JavaRanch JBoss forum so you can get even more help with JBoss - just say the word and we will move it. We would like to do that so you can get more help.

But if your topic is genuinely about whether you should switch to a different J2EE container, then perhaps we shouldn't move this topic.

Regards, Andrew

[Jessica Sant]

JBoss recently released JBoss 4.2.0 - have you considered using the latest release, rather than 4.0 (released in September 2004)?

Alternatively -- the last release of the 4.0 branch -- is JBoss 4.0.5 and was released last October.

JBoss App Server downloads

[Dave Elwood]

to Andrew Monkhouse :
Yes, if it will get an EJB bean to run here then please move this thread over to that other place.

to Jaikiran Pai :
In the startguide.pdf
"You should be able to obtain the supplementary JBoss files from the same place as this document. The file is packaged as a ZIP archive called jbossj2ee-src.zip."
I have already done this three times, wait a bit.
Is it too difficult to specify which files they mean by 'supplementary'?
e.g. jboss-build.properties to be inserted under jboss.home

"Download this and unpack it into the j2eetutorial14"
There is no directory named j2eetutorial14 in JBoss 3.2.6 nor in JBoss 4.0.0
nor in JBoss 4.0.4 GA.

"All the Duke�s Bank code is in a the examples/bank"
No it isn't.
When I run (as dictated in section 4.1.2)
>ant -f D:/JBoss-4.0.4/examples/bank jboss-build.xml compile

then the errors come out that the classes AccountController, AccountController home etc. do not exist.

These classes are not present in any of the three JBoss versions I have
used up now.
These classes are not present in the j2ee-jboss-src.zip file.

I was only able to find listing of these classes and interfaces with Google in a website in Timbuktu. And then I had to remove line numbers from 2000 lines of code.

See what I mean by junky documentation?

[Jaikiran Pai]

There is no directory named j2eetutorial14 in JBoss 3.2.6 nor in JBoss 4.0.0 nor in JBoss 4.0.4 GA.

Let's take this one step at a time. The Duke's bank example application that you are trying to run is not shipped by JBoss. Chapter 3 of the startup guide mentions:

We will make use of the example applications provided by Sun in the J2EE tutorial, in particular the Duke�s Bank application. You can find the tutorial on-line at http://java.sun.com/j2ee/1.4/docs/tutorial/doc/. You should read the getting started information there and download the example code from http://java.sun.com/j2ee/1.4/download.html#tutorial.

We will look at how to run the code in JBoss, supplementing the tutorial where necessary with JBoss-specific configuration information and deployment descriptors.

There's much more in that section which tells what other tools (like Ant) are required for getting started with the application.

Once you download that application from the Sun site and extract the zip, a j2eetutorial14 folder will be created at the location where you extracted it. Also this j2eetutorial14 will have the examples/bank subfolders in which you will have to extract all the supplementary files available in the jbossj2ee-src.zip.

Is it too difficult to specify which files they mean by 'supplementary'?

There are many supplementary files (which are nothing but configuration files specific to JBoss). But all these files are present in the
jbossj2ee-src.zip. So all that has to be done is to extract that zip file.

Let us know if you still face problems following these steps

[Dave Elwood]

I finally found the link
after 11 other links
at the bottom of the webpage
which contained the download of the file
which contained the directory j2eetutorial14
that you referred to

so I have under jboss.home the dir /examples2 from the above
and I have under jboss.home the dir /examples1 which came out of jbossj2ee-src.zip

/examples2 holds the dirs : bank, cb, common, ejb, jaxp, jaxr, jaxrpc, jms, saaj, security, web, xml
/examples1 holds the dirs : bank, ejb

in order to do
>ant -f jboss-build.xml compile
I must be under the examples1/bank because
that is the only place where jboss-build.xml exists.

however the missing classes (AccountController, etc)
are all under /examples2/bank

so we have examples1/bank and examples2/bank

is it necessary to mix these two /examples* directories together?

[Jaikiran Pai]

Originally posted by Dave Elwood:
so I have under jboss.home the dir /examples2 from the above
and I have under jboss.home the dir /examples1 which came out of jbossj2ee-src.zip

so we have examples1/bank and examples2/bank

is it necessary to mix these two /examples* directories together?

Yes, that's right you will have to mix those together. You can do this easily by pointing the destination directory to examples2 while extracting the jbossj2ee-src.zip. This way the contents of the jbossj2ee-src.zip will be extracted to the already existing folder which contains the examples that came from Sun.

From chapter 4:

The file is packaged as a ZIP archive called jbossj2ee-src.zip. Download this and unpack it into the j2eetutorial14 directory, adding to the existing tutorial files.

[Andrew Monkhouse]

Originally posted by Dave Elwood:
to Andrew Monkhouse :
Yes, if it will get an EJB bean to run here then please move this thread over to that other place.

Well moving this topic won't make everything magically work , but since you seem to be moving forward with JBoss, moving it will mean that that it will be in the right forum.

Originally posted by Dave Elwood:
"All the Duke�s Bank code is in a the examples/bank"
No it isn't.
When I run (as dictated in section 4.1.2)
>ant -f D:/JBoss-4.0.4/examples/bank jboss-build.xml compile

then the errors come out that the classes AccountController, AccountController home etc. do not exist.

These classes are not present in any of the three JBoss versions I have
used up now. [/QB]

Harking back to your original question - whether to move to a different J2EE container or not - I think this shows that changing containers won't mean that everything will automatically start running. AccountController, AccountControllerHome, AccountControllerBean ... are all part of the Duke's Bank application. So you will have the same problems with any other container.

Regards, Andrew

[Dave Elwood]

With the mixed examples I went through all the steps and even
deployed it into server/myconfig/deploy

Then I turned on the JBoss server and :

...

2007-07-15 20:02:19,216 WARN [org.jboss.ejb.EJBDeployer.verifier] EJB spec violation:
Bean : CustomerBean
Section: 12.2.2
Warning: The class must be defined as public and must not be abstract.

2007-07-15 20:02:19,236 WARN [org.jboss.ejb.EJBDeployer.verifier] EJB spec violation:
Bean : CustomerBean
Section: 12.2.5
Warning: Every entity bean must define the ejbFindByPrimaryKey method.

Many more warnings and other stuff...

--- Incompletely deployed packages ---
org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentInfo@52ad5cb0 { url=file:/D:/JBoss-4.0.4/server/myconfig/deploy/JBossDukesBank.ear }
deployer: org.jboss.deployment.EARDeployer@1706da8
status: Deployment FAILED reason: Verification of Enterprise Beans failed, see above for error messages.
state: FAILED
watch: file:/D:/JBoss-4.0.4/server/myconfig/deploy/JBossDukesBank.ear
altDD: null
lastDeployed: 1184522538936
lastModified: 1184522538000
mbeans:

It also gives the same kind of warnings for AccountBean and TxBean.
These are entity Beans, and the warnings about being abstract go against
everything that my books say.

What's going on now?

[Jaikiran Pai]

I just tried out this example, following the steps mentioned in the startup guide, on one of my test setups. Went off fine without any issues:

00:59:03,429 INFO [EARDeployer] Init J2EE application: file:/D:/JBoss-4.0.3/server/default/deploy/JBossDukesBank.ear
00:59:04,690 INFO [EjbModule] Deploying CustomerBean
00:59:05,231 INFO [EjbModule] Deploying AccountBean
00:59:05,261 INFO [EjbModule] Deploying TxBean
00:59:05,271 INFO [EjbModule] Deploying NextIdBean
00:59:05,281 INFO [EjbModule] Deploying AccountControllerBean
00:59:05,301 INFO [EjbModule] Deploying CustomerControllerBean
00:59:05,311 INFO [EjbModule] Deploying TxControllerBean
00:59:05,632 INFO [ClientDeployer] Client ENC bound under: bank-client
00:59:05,682 INFO [BaseLocalProxyFactory] Bound EJB LocalHome CustomerBean' to jndi 'ebankCustomer'
00:59:06,052 INFO [BaseLocalProxyFactory] Bound EJB LocalHome 'AccountBean' to jndi 'ebankAccount'
00:59:06,082 INFO [BaseLocalProxyFactory] Bound EJB LocalHome 'TxBean' to jndi 'ebankTx'
00:59:06,102 INFO [BaseLocalProxyFactory] Bound EJB LocalHome 'NextIdBean' to jndi 'ebankNextId'
00:59:06,904 INFO [ProxyFactory] Bound EJB Home 'AccountControllerBean' to jndi 'ebankAccountController'
00:59:06,914 INFO [ProxyFactory] Bound EJB Home 'CustomerControllerBean' to jndi 'ebankCustomerController'
00:59:06,934 INFO [ProxyFactory] Bound EJB Home 'TxControllerBean' to jndi 'ebankTxController'
00:59:06,944 INFO [EJBDeployer] Deployed: file:/D:/JBoss-4.0.3/server/default/tmp/deploy/tmp39045JBossDukesBank.ear-contents/bank-ejb.jar
00:59:07,024 INFO [TomcatDeployer] deploy, ctxPath=/bank, warUrl=.../tmp/deploy/tmp39045JBossDukesBank.ear-contents/web-client-exp.war/
00:59:07,374 INFO [EARDeployer] Started J2EE application: file:/D:/JBoss-4.0.3/server/default/deploy/JBossDukesBank.ear

The only difference that i see here is that you used your own server instance "myconfig" and i used the "default" instance. That should not be a problem as long as you created the "myconfig" right. How did you create the "myconfig" (just to make sure you got it right )

Also, can you post the output of the following command:

- Go to command prompt and move to D:/JBoss-4.0.4/server/myconfig/deploy/
- Run:

jar -tf JBossDukesBank.ear

Post the output(it will be long) here. That will show us whether the contents of the ear are proper.

[Jaikiran Pai]

Originally posted by Dave Elwood:
I finally found the link
after 11 other links
at the bottom of the webpage

Dave, which one did you download from here? Was it "J2EE 1.4 Tutorial Update 7 (for Sun Java System Application Server Platform Edition 8.2) January 27, 2006"

If yes, then its not the right version. You will have to download the "J2EE 1.4 Tutorial Update 2 (for Sun Java System Application Server Platform Edition 8 Update 1) June 22, 2004"

You will find the link for this download at the same location (http://java.sun.com/j2ee/1.4/download.html#tutorial) at the end of the page. Its named "J2EE 1.4 - Earlier Releases" To avoid any further confusions, here's the link you have to download from. At the end of that page you will find "J2EE 1.4 Tutorial Update 2 (for Sun Java System Application Server Platform Edition 8 Update 1) June 22, 2004". This is the one we are interested in for trying out the example.

[Dave Elwood]

I had downloaded Update 7
now I have Update 2 just as you described and it deploys.
Waa..Hoo!
Now I just need to see if I can call it up with a client app
such as http://localhost:8080/getupanddance

But do you see what I mean about hokey documentation?
All this has taken 8 days.

Thank you very much.

[Jaikiran Pai]

Originally posted by Dave Elwood:
now I have Update 2 just as you described and it deploys.
Waa..Hoo!
Now I just need to see if I can call it up with a client app
such as http://localhost:8080/getupanddance

Good luck

Originally posted by Dave Elwood:
But do you see what I mean about hokey documentation?

I guess, mentioning the correct version of the tutorial(available on the Sun site) in the Getting Started document, might help.

[Jose Alvarez de Lara]

Hi,

I have been trying JBoss Duke's Bank for two weeks, and it seems that I have found up the answer in this thread.

I would like to keep this thread on until I had solved the application. Is it posible.

Thanking in advance,
Jose Alvarez de Lara

[Jaikiran Pai]

Originally posted by Jose Alvarez de Lara:

I would like to keep this thread on until I had solved the application. Is it posible.

The thread will be there forever. We don't delete threads at JavaRanch. You can keep this bookmarked

[Jose Alvarez de Lara]

Hi,

I am having problems when setting the InitialContext. I have tried to create a new instance of InitialContext and then the problem is that the application can not find the EJBs. And if I try as follow

private static InitialContext getInitialContext(){
    InitialContext ctx = null;
    
    Properties properties = new Properties();
        properties.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY,
                       "org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContextFactory");
        properties.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL, "localhost:1099");
 
try {
// Get an initial context
ctx = new InitialContext(properties);
System.out.println("Got context");
} catch (NamingException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
System.out.println("Did not get context");
e.printStackTrace();
}

return ctx;
    }
}

the application throws an exception,

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/jboss/logging/Logger
at org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext.<clinit>(NamingContext.java:160)
at org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContextFactory.getInitialContext(NamingContextFactory.java:56)
at javax.naming.spi.NamingManager.getInitialContext(Unknown Source)
at javax.naming.InitialContext.getDefaultInitCtx(Unknown Source)
at javax.naming.InitialContext.init(Unknown Source)
at javax.naming.InitialContext.<init>(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.ebank.util.EJBGetter.getInitialContext(EJBGetter.java:109)
at com.sun.ebank.util.EJBGetter.getCustomerControllerHome(EJBGetter.java:76)
at com.sun.ebank.appclient.DataModel.<init>(DataModel.java:127)
at com.sun.ebank.appclient.EventHandle.<init>(EventHandle.java:51)
at com.sun.ebank.appclient.BankAdmin.main(BankAdmin.java:587)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.jboss.logging.Logger
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(Unknown Source)
... 11 more

and I do not know what is happening.

I will appreciate any help.

Thanking in advance,
Jose Alvarez de Lara

[Jose Alvarez de Lara]

Hi,
I was googling and I have solved the problem about the InitialContex: I was needing to add some jar into the prject.

Now I have some problems when callin some local-home interfaces from the ejbCreate mthod of a Session Bean. My code is as followes:

package com.sun.ebank.util;
 

/**
 * This interface defines names in code used as args for lookup().
 */
public interface CodedNames {
    public static final String BANK_DATABASE = "java:/DefaultDS";
    public static final String ACCOUNT_EJBHOME = "java:comp/env/ejb/AccountEJB";
    public static final String ACCOUNT_CONTROLLER_EJBHOME = "AccountControllerEJB";
    public static final String ACCOUNT_EJBHOME = "java:comp/env/ejb/CustomerEJB";
    public static final String CUSTOMER_CONTROLLER_EJBHOME = "CustomerControllerEJB";
    public static final String TX_EJBHOME = "java:comp/env/ejb/TxEJB";
    public static final String TX_CONTROLLER_EJBHOME = "TxControllerEJB";
}
 

where the ACCOUNT_CONTROLLER_EJBHOME, CUSTOMER_CONTROLLER_EJBHOME and TX_CONTROLLER_EJBHOME are the session bean that access to my ACCOUNT_EJBHOME, ACCOUNT_EJBHOME and TX_EJBHOME on their respectively ejbCreate method.

The way to call the diferents EJBs is as followes,

package com.sun.ebank.util;
 
import java.util.Properties;
import javax.rmi.PortableRemoteObject;
import javax.naming.Context;
import javax.naming.InitialContext;
import javax.naming.NamingException;
import com.sun.ebank.ejb.account.AccountHome;
import com.sun.ebank.ejb.account.AccountControllerHome;
import com.sun.ebank.ejb.customer.CustomerHome;
import com.sun.ebank.ejb.customer.CustomerControllerHome;
import com.sun.ebank.ejb.tx.TxHome;
import com.sun.ebank.ejb.tx.TxControllerHome;
 

/**
 * This helper class fetches EJB home references.
 */
public final class EJBGetter {
    public static AccountHome getAccountHome() throws NamingException {
        Context initial = getInitialContext();
        //InitialContext initial = new InitialContext();
        Object objref = initial.lookup(CodedNames.ACCOUNT_EJBHOME);
 
        //return (AccountHome) PortableRemoteObject.narrow(objref, AccountHome.class);
        return (AccountHome)objref;
    }
 
    public static AccountControllerHome getAccountControllerHome()
        throws NamingException {
        Context initial = getInitialContext();
        //InitialContext initial = new InitialContext();
        Object objref = initial.lookup(CodedNames.ACCOUNT_CONTROLLER_EJBHOME);
 
        return (AccountControllerHome) PortableRemoteObject.narrow(objref,
            AccountControllerHome.class);
    }
 
    public static CustomerHome getCustomerHome() throws NamingException {
        Context initial = getInitialContext();
        //InitialContext initial = new InitialContext();
        Object objref = initial.lookup(CodedNames.CUSTOMER_EJBHOME);
 
        //return (CustomerHome) PortableRemoteObject.narrow(objref, CustomerHome.class);
        return (CustomerHome)objref;
    }
 
    public static CustomerControllerHome getCustomerControllerHome()
        throws NamingException {
        Context initial = getInitialContext();
        //InitialContext initial = new InitialContext();
        Object objref = initial.lookup(CodedNames.CUSTOMER_CONTROLLER_EJBHOME);
 
        return (CustomerControllerHome) PortableRemoteObject.narrow(objref,
            CustomerControllerHome.class);
    }
 
    public static TxHome getTxHome() throws NamingException {
        Context initial = getInitialContext();
        //InitialContext initial = new InitialContext();
        Object objref = initial.lookup(CodedNames.TX_EJBHOME);
 
        //return (TxHome) PortableRemoteObject.narrow(objref, TxHome.class);
        return (TxHome)objref;
    }
 
    public static TxControllerHome getTxControllerHome()
        throws NamingException {
        Context initial = getInitialContext();
        //InitialContext initial = new InitialContext();
        Object objref = initial.lookup(CodedNames.TX_CONTROLLER_EJBHOME);
 
        return (TxControllerHome) PortableRemoteObject.narrow(objref,
            TxControllerHome.class);
    }
    
    private static Context getInitialContext(){
    Context ctx = null;
 
    Properties env = new Properties();
    env.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, "org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContextFactory");
    env.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL, "localhost:1099");
    env.put(Context.URL_PKG_PREFIXES, "jboss.naming :-o	 rg.jnp.interfaces");
    env.put("j2ee.clientName", "bank-client");

    try {
// Get an initial context
ctx = new InitialContext(env);
System.out.println("Got context");
} catch (NamingException ne) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
System.out.println("Did not get context");
ne.printStackTrace();
}

return ctx;
    }
}

but when I try it, the first call to the session bean works ok, but from the ejbCreate of this session bean I cannot call the entities beans. The system throws an exception,

java.rmi.ServerException: EJBException:; nested exception is:
javax.ejb.EJBException: ejbCreate: comp not bound
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.LogInterceptor.handleException(LogInterceptor.java:365)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.LogInterceptor.invokeHome(LogInterceptor.java:136)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.ProxyFactoryFinderInterceptor.invokeHome(ProxyFactoryFinderInterceptor.java:107)
at org.jboss.ejb.SessionContainer.internalInvokeHome(SessionContainer.java:637)
at org.jboss.ejb.Container.invoke(Container.java:981)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.ReflectedDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedDispatcher.java:155)
at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.dispatch(Invocation.java:94)
at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:86)
at org.jboss.mx.server.AbstractMBeanInvoker.invoke(AbstractMBeanInvoker.java:264)
at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:659)
at org.jboss.invocation.unified.server.UnifiedInvoker.invoke(UnifiedInvoker.java:231)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.ReflectedDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedDispatcher.java:155)
at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.dispatch(Invocation.java:94)
at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:86)
at org.jboss.mx.server.AbstractMBeanInvoker.invoke(AbstractMBeanInvoker.java:264)
at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:659)
at javax.management.MBeanServerInvocationHandler.invoke(MBeanServerInvocationHandler.java:201)
at $Proxy16.invoke(Unknown Source)
at org.jboss.remoting.ServerInvoker.invoke(ServerInvoker.java:769)
at org.jboss.remoting.transport.socket.ServerThread.processInvocation(ServerThread.java:573)
at org.jboss.remoting.transport.socket.ServerThread.dorun(ServerThread.java:373)
at org.jboss.remoting.transport.socket.ServerThread.run(ServerThread.java:166)
Caused by: javax.ejb.EJBException: ejbCreate: comp not bound
at com.sun.ebank.ejb.customer.CustomerControllerBean.ejbCreate(CustomerControllerBean.java:280)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
at org.jboss.ejb.StatefulSessionContainer.createSession(StatefulSessionContainer.java:278)
at org.jboss.ejb.StatefulSessionContainer.createHome(StatefulSessionContainer.java:337)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
at org.jboss.invocation.Invocation.performCall(Invocation.java:359)
at org.jboss.ejb.StatefulSessionContainer$ContainerInterceptor.invokeHome(StatefulSessionContainer.java:549)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.SecurityInterceptor.invokeHome(SecurityInterceptor.java:145)
at org.jboss.resource.connectionmanager.CachedConnectionInterceptor.invokeHome(CachedConnectionInterceptor.java:189)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.CallValidationInterceptor.invokeHome(CallValidationInterceptor.java:56)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.AbstractTxInterceptor.invokeNext(AbstractTxInterceptor.java:125)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.AbstractTxInterceptorBMT.invokeNext(AbstractTxInterceptorBMT.java:173)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.TxInterceptorBMT.invokeHome(TxInterceptorBMT.java:71)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.StatefulSessionInstanceInterceptor.invokeHome(StatefulSessionInstanceInterceptor.java:143)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.LogInterceptor.invokeHome(LogInterceptor.java:132)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.ProxyFactoryFinderInterceptor.invokeHome(ProxyFactoryFinderInterceptor.java:107)
at org.jboss.ejb.SessionContainer.internalInvokeHome(SessionContainer.java:637)
at org.jboss.ejb.Container.invoke(Container.java:981)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.ReflectedDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedDispatcher.java:155)
at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.dispatch(Invocation.java:94)
at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:86)
at org.jboss.mx.server.AbstractMBeanInvoker.invoke(AbstractMBeanInvoker.java:264)
at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:659)
at org.jboss.invocation.unified.server.UnifiedInvoker.invoke(UnifiedInvoker.java:231)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.ReflectedDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedDispatcher.java:155)
at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.dispatch(Invocation.java:94)
at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:86)
at org.jboss.mx.server.AbstractMBeanInvoker.invoke(AbstractMBeanInvoker.java:264)
at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:659)
at javax.management.MBeanServerInvocationHandler.invoke(MBeanServerInvocationHandler.java:201)
at $Proxy16.invoke(Unknown Source)
at org.jboss.remoting.ServerInvoker.invoke(ServerInvoker.java:769)
at org.jboss.remoting.transport.socket.ServerThread.processInvocation(ServerThread.java:573)
at org.jboss.remoting.transport.socket.ServerThread.dorun(ServerThread.java:373)
at org.jboss.remoting.transport.socket.ServerThread.run(ServerThread.java:166)
at org.jboss.remoting.MicroRemoteClientInvoker.invoke(MicroRemoteClientInvoker.java:163)
at org.jboss.remoting.Client.invoke(Client.java:1634)
at org.jboss.remoting.Client.invoke(Client.java:548)
at org.jboss.invocation.unified.interfaces.UnifiedInvokerProxy.invoke(UnifiedInvokerProxy.java:183)
at org.jboss.invocation.InvokerInterceptor.invokeInvoker(InvokerInterceptor.java:365)
at org.jboss.invocation.InvokerInterceptor.invoke(InvokerInterceptor.java:197)
at org.jboss.proxy.TransactionInterceptor.invoke(TransactionInterceptor.java:61)
at org.jboss.proxy.SecurityInterceptor.invoke(SecurityInterceptor.java:70)
at org.jboss.proxy.ejb.HomeInterceptor.invoke(HomeInterceptor.java:184)
at org.jboss.proxy.ClientContainer.invoke(ClientContainer.java:100)
at $Proxy0.create(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.ebank.appclient.DataModel.<init>(DataModel.java:127)
at com.sun.ebank.appclient.EventHandle.<init>(EventHandle.java:51)
at com.sun.ebank.appclient.BankAdmin.main(BankAdmin.java:587)

This is in case I name the entities "java:comp/env/ejb/myEJB" because if I just name the ejb myEJB the exception should be

java.rmi.ServerException: EJBException:; nested exception is: 
javax.ejb.EJBException: ejbCreate: myEJB not bound
at etc...

The question is that the entities interfaces are locals son I do not know the way to call them.

Any help over there.

Thank you,
Jose Alvarez de Lara

[Rajiv Narula]

I agree with the Original poster- that the Starting guide documentation from Jboss- is poorly written

But thanks to the helping hands here- it wasn't too difficult to get it running eventually- once you got on the right track

Cheers
I posted a Jboss tutorial (albeit somewhat different )on by blog.
It might help some one else who may come looking around for a solution
Jboss tutorial
[ December 27, 2008: Message edited by: Rajiv Narula ]

[Jose Alvarez de Lara]

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Going on with the Duke’s Bank, I have made some changes in the code. I am trying it because learning. But now appears an exception that is,

Unable find setter method for paramName attribute

Then code is as follow,

public class Definition {
    private HashMap params = new HashMap();

    public void setParam(Parameter p) {
        params.put(p.getParamName(), p);
    }

    public Parameter getParam(String name) {
        return (Parameter) params.get(name);
    }
}

**********************************************************************

public class Parameter {
    private String paramName;
    private boolean direct;
    private String paramValue;

    public Parameter(String name, String value, boolean isDirect) {
        this.paramName = name;
        this.direct = isDirect;
        this.paramValue = value;
    }

    public String getParamName() {
        return paramName;
    }

    public boolean getIsDirect() {
        return direct;
    }

    public String getParamValue() {
        return paramValue;
    }
}

**********************************************************************
public class DefinitionTag extends SimpleTagSupport {
    private String name = null;
    private String screen = null;
    private HashMap screens = null;

    public DefinitionTag() {
        super();
    }

    public HashMap getScreens() {
        return screens;
    }

    public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

    public void setScreen(String screenId) {
        this.screen = screenId;
    }

    public void doTag() {
        try {
            screens = new HashMap();

            getJspBody()
                .invoke(null);

            Definition myDefinition = new Definition();
            PageContext context = (PageContext) getJspContext();
            ArrayList params = (ArrayList) screens.get(screen);
            Iterator ir = null;

            if (params != null) {
                ir = params.iterator();

                while (ir.hasNext())
                    myDefinition.setParam((Parameter) ir.next());

                // put the definition in the page context
                context.setAttribute(name, myDefinition,
                    context.APPLICATION_SCOPE);
            } else {
                Debug.println("DefinitionTag: params are not defined.");
            }
        } catch (Exception ex) {
            ex.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

**********************************************************************

public class ParameterTag extends SimpleTagSupport {
    private String paramName = null;
    private String paramValue = null;
    private String direct = null;

    public ParameterTag() {
        super();
    }

    public void setParamName(String paramName) {
        this.paramName = paramName;
    }

    public void setParamValue(String paramValue) {
        this.paramValue = paramValue;
    }

    public void setDirect(String isDirectString) {
        this.direct = isDirectString;
    }

    public void doTag() {
        boolean isDirect = false;

        if ((direct != null) &&
                direct.toLowerCase()
                                  .equals("true")) {
            isDirect = true;
        }

        try {
            // retrieve the parameters list
            if (paramName != null) {
                ArrayList parameters =
                    ((ScreenTag) getParent()).getParameters();

                if (parameters != null) {
                    Parameter param =
                        new Parameter(paramName, paramValue, isDirect);
                    parameters.add(param);
                } else {
                    Debug.println("ParameterTag: parameters do not exist.");
                }
                
            }
        } catch (Exception e) {
            Debug.println("ParameterTag: error in doTag: " + e);
        }
    }
}

**********************************************************************

public class InsertTag extends SimpleTagSupport {
    private String parameter = null;
    private String definition = null;

    public InsertTag() {
        super();
    }

    public void setParameter(String parameter) {
        this.parameter = parameter;
    }

    public void setDefinition(String name) {
        this.definition = name;
    }

    public void doTag() throws JspTagException {
        Definition myDefinition = null;
        Parameter myParameter = null;
        boolean directInclude = false;
        
        PageContext context = (PageContext) getJspContext();

        // get the definition from the page context
        myDefinition =
            (Definition) context.getAttribute(definition,
                context.APPLICATION_SCOPE);

        // get the parameter
        if ((parameter != null) && (myDefinition != null)) {
            myParameter = (Parameter) myDefinition.getParam(parameter);
        }

        if (myParameter != null) {
            directInclude = myParameter.getIsDirect();
        }

        try {
            // if parameter is direct, print to out
            if (directInclude && (myParameter != null)) {
                context.getOut()
                       .print(myParameter.getParamValue());
            }
            // if parameter is indirect, include results of dispatching to page 
            else {
                if ((myParameter != null) && (myParameter.getParamValue() != null)) {
                    context.include(myParameter.getParamValue());
                }
            }
        } catch (Exception ex) {
            Throwable rootCause = null;

            if (ex instanceof ServletException) {
                rootCause = ((ServletException) ex).getRootCause();
            }

            throw new JspTagException(ex.getMessage(), rootCause);
        }
    }
}

**********************************************************************

public class ScreenTag extends SimpleTagSupport {
    private String screenId;
    private ArrayList parameters = null;

    public ScreenTag() {
        super();
    }

    public ArrayList getParameters() {
        return parameters;
    }

    public void setScreenId(String screenId) {
        this.screenId = screenId;
    }

    public void doTag() {
        parameters = new ArrayList();

        HashMap screens = (HashMap) ((DefinitionTag) getParent()).getScreens();

        if (screens != null) {
            try {
                if (!screens.containsKey(screenId)) {
                    screens.put(screenId, parameters);
                }

                getJspBody()
                    .invoke(null);
            } catch (Exception ex) {
                ex.printStackTrace();
            }
        } else {
            Debug.println("ScreenTag: Unable to get screens object.");
        }
    }
}

Another change I made was to put jsp extension to screensdefinition.jspf. Now is screensdefinition.jsp and has not any line of JSP code. It is as follow,

<tt:mydefinition name="bank" screen='<%= (String)request.getAttribute("selectedScreen") %>'>
  <tt:myscreen screenId="/main">
    <tt:myparameter paramName="title" paramValue="Duke's Bank" direct="true"/>
    <tt:myparameter paramName="banner" paramValue="/template/banner.jsp" direct="false"/>
    <tt:myparameter paramName="links" paramValue="/template/links.jsp" direct="false"/>
    <tt:myparameter paramName="body" paramValue="/main.jsp" direct="false"/>
  </tt:myscreen>
  <tt:myscreen screenId="/transferAck">
    <tt:myparameter paramName="title" paramValue="TransferSucceeded" direct="true"/>
    <tt:myparameter paramName="banner" paramValue="/template/banner.jsp" direct="false"/>
    <tt:myparameter paramName="links" paramValue="/template/links.jsp" direct="false"/>
    <tt:myparameter paramName="body" paramValue="/transferAck.jsp" direct="false"/>
  </tt:myscreen>
  <tt:myscreen screenId="/transferFunds">
    <tt:myparameter paramName="title" paramValue="TransferFunds" direct="true"/>
    <tt:myparameter paramName="banner" paramValue="/template/banner.jsp" direct="false"/>
    <tt:myparameter paramName="links" paramValue="/template/links.jsp" direct="false"/>
    <tt:myparameter paramName="body" paramValue="/transferFunds.jsp" direct="false"/>
  </tt:myscreen>
  <tt:myscreen screenId="/atmAck">
    <tt:myparameter paramName="title" paramValue="WDSucceeded" direct="true"/>
    <tt:myparameter paramName="banner" paramValue="/template/banner.jsp" direct="false"/>
    <tt:myparameter paramName="links" paramValue="/template/links.jsp" direct="false"/>
    <tt:myparameter paramName="body" paramValue="/atmAck.jsp" direct="false"/>
  </tt:myscreen>
  <tt:myscreen screenId="/atm">
    <tt:myparameter paramName="title" paramValue="WD" direct="true"/>
    <tt:myparameter paramName="banner" paramValue="/template/banner.jsp" direct="false"/>
    <tt:myparameter paramName="links" paramValue="/template/links.jsp" direct="false"/>
    <tt:myparameter paramName="body" paramValue="/atm.jsp" direct="false"/>
  </tt:myscreen>
  <tt:myscreen screenId="/accountHist">
    <tt:myparameter paramName="title" paramValue="AccountHistory" direct="true"/>
    <tt:myparameter paramName="banner" paramValue="/template/banner.jsp" direct="false"/>
    <tt:myparameter paramName="links" paramValue="/template/links.jsp" direct="false"/>
    <tt:myparameter paramName="body" paramValue="/accountHist.jsp" direct="false"/>
  </tt:myscreen>
  <tt:myscreen screenId="/accountList">
    <tt:myparameter paramName="title" paramValue="AccountList" direct="true"/>
    <tt:myparameter paramName="banner" paramValue="/template/banner.jsp" direct="false"/>
    <tt:myparameter paramName="links" paramValue="/template/links.jsp" direct="false"/>
    <tt:myparameter paramName="body" paramValue="/accountList.jsp" direct="false"/>
  </tt:myscreen>
  <tt:myscreen screenId="/logoff">
    <tt:myparameter paramName="title" paramValue="Logoff" direct="true"/>
    <tt:myparameter paramName="banner" paramValue="/template/banner.jsp" direct="false"/>
    <tt:myparameter paramName="links" paramValue="/template/nolinks.jsp" direct="false"/>
    <tt:myparameter paramName="body" paramValue="/logoff.jsp" direct="false"/>
  </tt:myscreen>
</tt:mydefinition>

But I have the above exception. I think I am close to the solution.

Please help.

Best regards,
Jose Alvarez de Lara Sanchez
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