Deploying EAR files

[Ravindran Ramiah]

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

[Andres Gonzalez]

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?

[Ravindran Ramiah]

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

[Darryl A. J. Staflund]

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

[Andres Gonzalez]

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...

<application>
     <display-name>My Application</display-name>
      <module>
         <web>
            <web-uri>yourWar.war</web-uri>
            <context-root>/yourContext</context-root>
         </web>
      </module>
      <module>
         <ejb>yourEJB.jar</ejb>
      </module>
 </application>

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