NeedJ2EE 1.3 RI server Installation Help

[Isha Garg]

Hi All,

I have downloaded and installed j2ee 1.3 from j2ee 1.3 download

I have got several batch files like userconfig,j2ee etc in bin folder.

I am not getting what all settings do I need to complete my installation process.

I have set my JAVA_HOME, J2EE_HOME and Path variables as:
JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_21
J2EE_HOME=F:\J2EE\j2sdkee1.3.1
PATH=%PATH%F:\J2EE\j2sdkee1.3.1\bin\;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_21\bin\;

But if from cmd prompt I try to get the version of j2ee, I get following error. (My j2ee 1.3 is installed in F:\J2EE folder)


F:\J2EE\j2sdkee1.3.1\bin>j2ee -version
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Files\Common
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Files\Common
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:248)
Could not find the main class: Files\Common. Program will exit.


Also, If I try to compile my first Ejbs i.e AdviceBean.java from first chapter of Headfirst Ejbs, i get following error.

F:\Temp Workspace\projects\advice\src>javac -d ../classes headfirst/*.java

headfirst\Advice.java:9: package javax.ejb does not exist
import javax.ejb.EJBObject;
^
headfirst\Advice.java:15: cannot find symbol
symbol: class EJBObject
public interface Advice extends EJBObject{
^
headfirst\AdviceBean.java:9: package javax.ejb does not exist
import javax.ejb.EJBException;
^
headfirst\AdviceBean.java:10: package javax.ejb does not exist
import javax.ejb.SessionBean;
^
headfirst\AdviceBean.java:11: package javax.ejb does not exist
import javax.ejb.SessionContext;
^
headfirst\AdviceBean.java:17: cannot find symbol
symbol: class SessionBean
public class AdviceBean implements SessionBean{
^
headfirst\AdviceBean.java:21: cannot find symbol
symbol : class SessionContext
location: class headfirst.AdviceBean
public void setSessionContext(SessionContext ctx) throws EJBException, Remo
eException {
^
headfirst\AdviceBean.java:21: cannot find symbol
symbol : class EJBException
location: class headfirst.AdviceBean
public void setSessionContext(SessionContext ctx) throws EJBException, Remo
eException {
^
headfirst\AdviceBean.java:24: cannot find symbol
symbol : class EJBException
location: class headfirst.AdviceBean
public void ejbRemove() throws EJBException, RemoteException {
^
headfirst\AdviceBean.java:28: cannot find symbol
symbol : class EJBException
location: class headfirst.AdviceBean
public void ejbActivate() throws EJBException, RemoteException {
^
headfirst\AdviceBean.java:32: cannot find symbol
symbol : class EJBException
location: class headfirst.AdviceBean
public void ejbPassivate() throws EJBException, RemoteException {
^
headfirst\AdviceHome.java:9: package javax.ejb does not exist
import javax.ejb.CreateException;
^
headfirst\AdviceHome.java:10: package javax.ejb does not exist
import javax.ejb.EJBHome;
^
headfirst\AdviceHome.java:16: cannot find symbol
symbol: class EJBHome
public interface AdviceHome extends EJBHome{
^
headfirst\AdviceHome.java:18: cannot find symbol
symbol : class CreateException
location: interface headfirst.AdviceHome
public Advice create() throws CreateException, RemoteException;
^
15 errors

I believe there is some problem in my classpath. But I am not getting what should I include in my classpath, I think need to add ejb.jar to my classpath.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

[Christophe Verré]

1.3 ? This is way too old. Are starting studying EJB2.x ? If so, I'd advice you to stop and study for EJB3 instead. The current SCBCD5 is about EJB3.0 and JPA1.0.

[Isha Garg]

hmmm.. ya, actually I liked Head first series, so thought of following HF EJB... But it is for ejb2.0.

So will get some other book for EJB 3.0 and will follow that..
Thanks for your advice.

[T. Huy Nguyen]

EJB 3 container is required to support all previous version of EJB specification. So you can use any current EJB 3 server for your EJB 2.0 without any problem.