topic Re: Alfresco with Websphere? in Alfresco Archive

Alfresco with Websphere?

fouellet — Fri, 25 Nov 2005 02:09:03 GMT

The spec sheets now indicate WebSphere and Weblogic as supported application servers in addition to Tomcat and JBoss.Any information on how/when the Alfresco distribution will allow to use these? :roll: Thanks.

Re: Alfresco with Websphere?

gavinc — Fri, 25 Nov 2005 09:53:25 GMT

WebSphere and WebLogic are both commercial products so we can't create a distribution containing these.

However, the WAR file distribution can be used to deploy to either of these application servers. All you will need to do is add the MySQL connector to the appserver's classpath and copy the WAR file to the appropriate location.

Re: Alfresco with Websphere?

fhartojo — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 17:27:21 GMT

I wasn't able to run v1.0 on Websphere 5.1.2. I could deploy it, but it failed to run. There really was very precious little clues in the log files other than a mention that the webapp failed to initialise due to a previous error.

That said, I'm also unable to run it under Tomcat 5.0.28 and JDK 1.4.2_10 with a more consistent error which I noticed also appeared once under WAS:

2005-11-28 18:07:16 StandardContext[/alfresco]Error configuring application listener of class org.alfresco.web.app.ContextListener
java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: org/alfresco/web/app/ContextListener (Unsupported major.minor version 49.0)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:539)
        at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:123)
        at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.findClassInternal(WebappClassLoader.java:1634)
        at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.findClass(WebappClassLoader.java:860)
        at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1307)
        at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1189)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:3775)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4343)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:823)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:807)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:595)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostDeployer.install(StandardHostDeployer.java:277)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.install(StandardHost.java:832)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWARs(HostConfig.java:625)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:431)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:983)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:349)
        at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1091)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:789)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1083)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:478)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:480)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:2313)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:556)
        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:324)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:287)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:425)

Does this mean I need JDK 1.5 to run the out-of-the-box WAR file? Because the only times I'm able to run it is on Tomcat 5.5.12 with JDK 1.5.

Thanks.

Re: Alfresco with Websphere?

gavinc — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 17:45:29 GMT

Hi,

Yes, Alfresco does require JDK 1.5 and the error you saw is consistent with using the wrong JDK version.

If you can configure WebSphere/WebLogic to run with Java 1.5 then there's no reason why Alfresco shouldn't deploy and run just fine.

Re: Alfresco with Websphere?

fhartojo — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 17:57:18 GMT

Hi,

Yes, Alfresco does require JDK 1.5 and the error you saw is consistent with using the wrong JDK version.

If you can configure WebSphere/WebLogic to run with Java 1.5 then there's no reason why Alfresco shouldn't deploy and run just fine.

Thanks for the quick response.

Unfortunately, I can't (easily) sub JDK 1.5 for the stock JDK 1.4. IBM have some custom additions that I've no idea how to replicate. Documents/articles/postings I've been able to find all suggest to upgrade to the WAS version that uses the desired version of the JDK. Which we're not looking to do either.

I'll see about setting up a build environment to rebuild the app. Is it possible to recompile it using JDK 1.4? Does it use any 1.5-specific features?

Thanks again.

Re: Alfresco with Websphere?

gavinc — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 09:47:03 GMT

Yes we do use specific 1.5 features such as generics, the enhanced for loop and enums.

So unfortunately it looks like an upgrade of WebSphere would be required

Re: Alfresco with Websphere?

fhartojo — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 18:49:55 GMT

Looks like I'm out of luck with Websphere. Even WAS v6, the latest version, uses JDK 1.4.

Re: Alfresco with Websphere?

drobert_bfm — Tue, 27 Dec 2005 21:42:14 GMT

Simple Answer:

Don't hold your breath. IBM still hasn't released a 1.5 JDK, and since they insist on tying WebSphere to their broken JDK, they're not likely to make WebSphere java5 compatible any time soon. It took them quite some time to simply bring it up to J2EE 1.4 level (WAS6).

You have two possible solutions:

1. Try to make it run under the "new" WebSphere community edition; since it's based on the Geronimo kernel (it's essentially the Gluecode server in a new dress), there's a good chance Alfresco will run on it. Just make sure that you're running a 1.5 JVM.

2. Leave the total-j2ee stack behind, and run Alfresco in a simple servlet container, e.g. Tomcat or Jetty, and use the standard APIs to connect to it from your WebSphere based apps.

Re: Alfresco with Websphere?

onlaed — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 16:51:40 GMT

IS there a guide for installing alfresco on WebSphere community edition?

Re: Alfresco with Websphere?

kevinr — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 09:00:07 GMT

We need to work out the issue with IBM JDK1.5 before Alfresco will work on WebSphere 6.

Thanks,

Kevin

Re: Alfresco with Websphere?

brobie — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 15:58:37 GMT

I am just wondering if there has been any success on installing Alfresco using Websphere 6.0 (JDK 1.4.2) using DB2 8.2.

I have read:
http://forums.alfresco.com/viewtopic.php?t=1006&highlight=websphere

…but wondered if there were any "official" attempts at it.

Thanks.

Re: Alfresco with Websphere?

jperez — Fri, 25 May 2007 23:01:16 GMT

Hi

Iâ€™m trying to install alfresco on websphere and I have a question for you guys

First I want to address that I think that there are some miss understandings about websphere application server

WAS runs 1.4.2 jvm since 5.1 plus some patches
As this forum says WAS 6 still uses JVM 1.4.2
But WAS 6.1 uses 1.5 jvm

I deployed the war file and I have to main exceptions when I try to access the application maybe you can explain them to me

[5/25/07 14:47:30:953 COT] 00000021 SystemOut O 14:47:30,843 ERROR [web.context.ContextLoader] Context initialization failed
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.alfresco.util.RuntimeSystemPropertiesSetter.postProcessBeanFactory(RuntimeSystemPropertiesSetter.java:6Cool
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.invokeBeanFactoryPostProcessors(AbstractApplicationContext.java:38
0)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:302)
at org.springframework.web.context.support.AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext
.java:134)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:246)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:184)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:49)
at com.ibm.ws.wswebcontainer.webapp.WebApp.notifyServletContextCreated(WebApp.java:635)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebApp.commonInitializationFinish(WebApp.java:279)
at com.ibm.ws.wswebcontainer.webapp.WebApp.initialize(WebApp.java:283)
at com.ibm.ws.wswebcontainer.webapp.WebGroup.addWebApplication(WebGroup.java:8Cool
â€¦..

And another one

[5/25/07 14:47:34:312 COT] 00000021 SystemOut O 14:47:34,312 ERROR [commons.modeler.Registry] Error registering axis:type=server
javax.management.InstanceAlreadyExistsException: axis:cell=antaresNode01Cell,type=server,node=antaresNode01,process=server1
at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.RepositorySupport.addMBean(RepositorySupport.java:470)
at com.sun.jmx.interceptor.DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.internal_addObject(DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.java:1428)
at com.sun.jmx.interceptor.DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.registerObject(DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.java:954)
at com.sun.jmx.interceptor.DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.registerMBean(DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.java:355)
at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.JmxMBeanServer.registerMBean(JmxMBeanServer.java:515)
at com.ibm.ws.management.PlatformMBeanServer.registerMBean(PlatformMBeanServer.java:472)
at org.apache.commons.modeler.Registry.registerComponent(Registry.java:871)
at org.apache.commons.modeler.Registry.registerComponent(Registry.java:346)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:64)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:615)
at org.apache.axis.management.Registrar$ModelerBinding.register(Registrar.java:131)
at org.apache.axis.management.Registrar.register(Registrar.java:52)
at org.apache.axis.management.ServiceAdmin.setEngine(ServiceAdmin.java:142)
at org.apache.axis.transport.http.AxisServlet.init(AxisServlet.java:204)
at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:256)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper.init(ServletWrapper.java:190)
at com.ibm.ws.wswebcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper.init(ServletWrapper.java:317)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper.initialize(ServletWrapper.java:1142)
at com.ibm.ws.wswebcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper.initialize(ServletWrapper.java:150)
at com.ibm.wsspi.webcontainer.extension.WebExtensionProcessor.createServletWrapper(WebExtensionProcessor.java:99)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebApp.getServletWrapper(WebApp.java:771)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebApp.initializeTargetMappings(WebApp.java:451)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebApp.commonInitializationFinish(WebApp.java:288)
at com.ibm.ws.wswebcontainer.webapp.WebApp.initialize(WebApp.java:283)
at com.ibm.ws.wswebcontainer.webapp.WebGroup.addWebApplication(WebGroup.java:8Cool
at com.ibm.ws.wswebcontainer.VirtualHost.addWebApplication(VirtualHost.java:157)
at com.ibm.ws.wswebcontainer.WebContainer.addWebApp(WebContainer.java:655)
at com.ibm.ws.wswebcontainer.WebContainer.addWebApplication(WebContainer.java:608)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.component.WebContainerImpl.install(WebContainerImpl.java:335)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.component.WebContainerImpl.start(WebContainerImpl.java:551)
at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.ApplicationMgrImpl.start(ApplicationMgrImpl.java:1312)

Thanks in advance

Re: Alfresco with Websphere?

jzulu2000 — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 18:47:31 GMT

Hi jperez

This is a Was bug; it's gonna be fixed in 6.1.0.15 fixpack

See http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=180&context=SSEQTP&dc=DB550&uid=swg1PK46698&loc=en_US&cs=UTF-8&lang=en&rss=ct180websphere