Deploying EAR files

Hi everyone,
I have successfully installed JBoss 3.2.1/Tomcat 4.1.24. on windows 2000.
I start Jboss from the command prompt by using the run.bat. The following is displayed after a series of messages.
"14:59:12,500 INFO [Server] JBoss (MX MicroKernel) [3.2.1 (build: CVSTag=JBoss_3
_2_1 date=200305041533)] Started in 1m:6s:282ms"
I have got an EAR file that is to be deployed. I created a folder, xyz.ear under the deploy folder and placed the ear file in that folder. On entering the url http://localhost:8080/xyz, I get a directory listing.
On trying http://localhost:8080/jmx-console/, I get the following error
"The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.
exception
org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to compile class for JSP
An error occurred at line: -1 in the jsp file: null
Generated servlet error:
[javac] Compiling 1 source file
[javac] javac: invalid flag: -sourcepath"
Can someone help me resolve this?
TIA
Ravi

Originally posted by Ravindran Ramiah:
Hi everyone,
...I created a folder, xyz.ear under the deploy folder and placed the ear file in that folder.

I usually do not create any folder under my deploy directory in JBoss.. I just drop the ear file there and check what the log file tells me (whether deploys successfully or not). Do you get any error when deploying your EAR file?

Hi Andres..
Following is the section of the log file that indicates a successful deployment.
<---------------
17:28:24,734 INFO [MainDeployer] Deployed package: file:/C:/JBoss/jboss-3.2.1_t
omcat-4.1.24/server/default/deploy/xyz.war/
17:28:24,734 INFO [MainDeployer] Starting deployment of package: file:/C:/JBoss
/jboss-3.2.1_tomcat-4.1.24/server/default/deploy/jms/
17:28:24,765 INFO [JARDeployer] nested deployment: file:/C:/JBoss/jboss-3.2.1_t
omcat-4.1.24/server/default/deploy/jms/jbossmq-destinations-service.xml
17:28:24,765 INFO [JARDeployer] nested deployment: file:/C:/JBoss/jboss-3.2.1_t
omcat-4.1.24/server/default/deploy/jms/jbossmq-httpil.sar/
17:28:24,765 INFO [JARDeployer] nested deployment: file:/C:/JBoss/jboss-3.2.1_t
omcat-4.1.24/server/default/deploy/jms/jbossmq-service.xml
17:28:24,765 INFO [JARDeployer] nested deployment: file:/C:/JBoss/jboss-3.2.1_t
omcat-4.1.24/server/default/deploy/jms/jms-ds.xml
17:28:24,765 INFO [JARDeployer] nested deployment: file:/C:/JBoss/jboss-3.2.1_t
omcat-4.1.24/server/default/deploy/jms/jms-ra.rar
17:28:24,828 INFO [SARDeployer] nested deployment: file:/C:/JBoss/jboss-3.2.1_t
omcat-4.1.24/server/default/deploy/jms/jbossmq-httpil.sar/jbossmq-httpil.war/
17:28:24,953 INFO [RARDeployer] nested deployment: file:/C:/JBoss/jboss-3.2.1_t
omcat-4.1.24/server/default/tmp/deploy/server/default/deploy/jms/jms-ra.rar/39.j
ms-ra.rar-contents/jms-ra.jar
--------->
I tried removing the folder and dropping the ear file...the log file again indicates a successful deployment but the http://localhost:8080/xyz displays the directory listing.
Would you like me to provide any other input?
TIA
Ravi

Hi Ravindran,
I get this error too -- but only with JBoss 3.2.1 -- and it is accompanied with a lot of socket errors as well. My only fix is to downgrade to 3.2.0 or to rebuild my test database and then restart JBoss. Normally I'd think there was a coding error on my part except that I haven't coded database stuff in my current app for a month now and the problem only started occurring with 3.2.1. It will be interesting to see if this goes away with 3.2.2.
Darryl

what exactly is xyz? From your first post I assumed is your ear file name itself.. hmm.. If that's the case you do not access your application that way. you usually have a context in which your application will be running..so it'll be something like:
http://localhost:8080/myContext/index.jsp
for example...

I used Jboss 3.0.x...
hope this helps