Sun ONE Application Server 7 Deployment instruction for Advisor Example in Chapter 1

[John Liang]

Okay, here we go, I finally got that working. However, I still don't know how to get a generated Stub-jar.
Any ways, for those that would like to play around with Sun ONE Application Server 7: Here we go:
0) Follow all the steps in HF EJB, so that you know your app is definitely working!!! You have the AdviceApp.ear from the RI.
1) unjar it

From now on you need one new Deployment Descriptor (DD) [sun-ejb-jar.xml] and modify an existing one [application.xml]
2) We need to have a new Sun ONE server-specific deployment descriptor:
Name: sun-ejb-jar.xml
Location: in the same directory as the normal DD ejb-jar.xml (META-INF)
Here:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!--
   Copyright 2002 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
-->
<!DOCTYPE sun-ejb-jar PUBLIC '-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Sun ONE Application Server 7.0 EJB 2.0//EN' 'http://www.sun.com/software/sunone/appserver/dtds/sun-ejb-jar_2_0-0.dtd'>
<sun-ejb-jar>
  <enterprise-beans>
    <name>AdviceEJB.jar</name>
    <ejb>
<!--
  Note: <ejb-name> in sun-ejb-jar.xml must match <ejb-name> in ejb-jar.xml
-->
      <ejb-name>AdviceBean</ejb-name>
      <jndi-name>Advisor</jndi-name>
      <is-read-only-bean>false</is-read-only-bean>
      <bean-pool>
        <steady-pool-size>20</steady-pool-size>
        <resize-quantity>5</resize-quantity>
        <max-pool-size>100</max-pool-size>
        <pool-idle-timeout-in-seconds>3600</pool-idle-timeout-in-seconds>
      </bean-pool>
   </ejb>
  </enterprise-beans>
</sun-ejb-jar>

3) We need to make sure that application.xml
Name: application.xml
Location: directory under META-INF in the ear file [application.xml] (META-INF)
Here:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE application PUBLIC '-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD J2EE Application 1.3//EN' 'http://java.sun.com/dtd/application_1_3.dtd'>
<application>
  <display-name>AdviceApp</display-name>
  <description>Application description</description>
  <module>
<!--
  Make sure this jar file name match with the actual EJB jar that you have.
-->
    <ejb>AdviceBean.jar</ejb>
  </module>
</application>

4) Deploy it using the Administration Tool in the Browser. Default:
http://localhost:4848
However, I still don't know how to generate those Client stub. Well, I guess, stay tuned or may be somebody has an answer soon.
Thanks,
John
[ November 23, 2003: Message edited by: John Liang ]

[Ron Havelock]

go to the app deployed directory...you will see it. For windows, the default would be:
C:\Sun\AppServer7\domains\domain1\server1\applications\j2ee-apps

[John Liang]

Hello,
Thanks, that's great help. I have found it, but:

javax.naming.CommunicationException: Can't find SerialContextProvider
at com.sun.enterprise.naming.SerialContext.getProvider(SerialContext.jav
a:63)
at com.sun.enterprise.naming.SerialContext.lookup(SerialContext.java:120
)
at javax.naming.InitialContext.lookup(InitialContext.java:347)
at AdviceClient.go(AdviceClient.java:16)
at AdviceClient.main(AdviceClient.java:9)

So ... ... any idea? I have checked out the javasoft site, they said that's a problem with JDK ...
Thanks in advance,
John