topic How-To: Installing Alfresco 2.0 on GlassFish v2 in Alfresco Archive

How-To: Installing Alfresco 2.0 on GlassFish v2

nickmalthus — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 03:59:56 GMT

Alfresco deployment to GlassFishI noticed that the Alfresco forums and documentation did not mention many references to deploying Alfresco to Sunâ€™s open source application server GlassFish. I wanted to run Alfresco on GlassFish so I spent a considerable amount of time the past couple of days attem

Re: How-To: Installing Alfresco 2.0 on GlassFish v2

kevinr — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 12:08:14 GMT

Thankyou for posting this detailed information. FYI for Alfresco 2.1 we have moved to MyFaces1.1.5 which fixes some of the issues you mention (such as acceptcharset form attribute). We still have some dependancies on MyFaces impl which we'll look at removing.

Thanks,

Kevin

Re: How-To: Installing Alfresco 2.0 on GlassFish v2

pcheipe — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:36:45 GMT

We are trying the same: install an Alfresco 2.0 over a Glassfish 2.0.

Our a server is a 64 Bit Debian.

I confirm that the first problem is the "OutOfMemory genPerm error".

The "-XX:MaxPermSize=128m" JVM parameter fixes it perfectly (thanks !).

But, before facing JSF problems we are facing another one. The server seems not to be able to parse the web.xml file.

It looks like it tries to access an external resource (as on old Weblogic servers which were searching for the DTD on the web). Our server, as many other, cannot access anything else than the database.

The error log are the following:

(…)
[#|2007-03-13T23:11:34.858+0100|INFO|sun-appserver-pe9.0|javax.enterprise.resource.webcontainer.jsf.config|_ThreadID=10;_ThreadName=main;;|Completed initializing Sun's JavaServer Faces implementation (1.2_02-b03-FCS) for context ''|#]

[#|2007-03-13T23:14:46.407+0100|INFO|sun-appserver-pe9.0|javax.enterprise.system.stream.out|_ThreadID=10;_ThreadName=main;|23:14:46,401 FATAL [webapp.webxml.WebXmlParser] Unable to parse web.xml
java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out
   at sun.nio.ch.SocketChannelImpl.checkConnect(Native Method)
   at sun.nio.ch.SocketChannelImpl.finishConnect(SocketChannelImpl.java:527)
   (…)
   at org.apache.myfaces.webapp.webxml.WebXmlParser.parse(WebXmlParser.java:89)
   at org.apache.myfaces.webapp.webxml.WebXml.init(WebXml.java:135) (…)‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

I am downloading source code to try to understand what it is trying to access.

Standard "WebXmlParsers" usually only use the dtd name as a key.

Have an idea ?

Re: How-To: Installing Alfresco 2.0 on GlassFish v2

kevinr — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 17:33:27 GMT

The only external reference is a pretty standard dtd url at the start of the file:

<!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC
"-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN"
"http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd">

Thanks,

Kev

Re: How-To: Installing Alfresco 2.0 on GlassFish v2

pcheipe — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 19:07:14 GMT

Yes that's what I thought too. But note that the source code looks like:

140     private class _EntityResolver implements EntityResolver
141     {
142         public InputSource resolveEntity(String publicId, String systemId) throws IOException
143         {
144             if (systemId == null)
145             {
146                 throw new UnsupportedOperationException("systemId must not be null");
147             }
148 
149             if (systemId.equals(WebXmlParser.WEB_APP_2_2_SYSTEM_ID) ||
150                 systemId.equals(WebXmlParser.WEB_APP_2_2_J2EE_SYSTEM_ID))
151             {
152                 //Load DTD from servlet.jar
153                 return createClassloaderInputSource(publicId, WebXmlParser.WEB_APP_2_2_RESOURCE);
154             }
155             else if (systemId.equals(WebXmlParser.WEB_APP_2_3_SYSTEM_ID))
156             {
157                 //Load DTD from servlet.jar
158                 return createClassloaderInputSource(publicId, WebXmlParser.WEB_APP_2_3_RESOURCE);
159             }
160             else
161             {
162                 //Load additional entities from web context
163                 return createContextInputSource(publicId, systemId);
164             }‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

whith the following constants:

54      private static final String WEB_APP_2_2_J2EE_SYSTEM_ID = "http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/web-app_2_2.dtd";
55      private static final String WEB_APP_2_2_SYSTEM_ID = "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_2.dtd";
56      private static final String WEB_APP_2_2_RESOURCE  = "javax/servlet/resources/web-app_2_2.dtd";
57  
58      private static final String WEB_APP_2_3_SYSTEM_ID = "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd";
59      private static final String WEB_APP_2_3_RESOURCE  = "javax/servlet/resources/web-app_2_3.dtd";‍‍‍‍‍‍

So I really do not understand…. But it seems that it is a Glassfish issue.

It seems to work by simply deleting the DOCTYPE declaration (!!??!!), so keep going on…

Re: How-To: Installing Alfresco 2.0 on GlassFish v2

pcheipe — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 19:15:47 GMT

Next problem: Web App is not starting yet.

The log is:

[#|2007-03-14T20:19:59.032+0100|SEVERE|sun-appserver-pe9.0|javax.enterprise.system.container.web|_ThreadID=10;_ThreadName=main;_RequestID=db65bcad-928d-42fb-86c3-15880b0b0d7a;|WebModule[/alfresco]Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener
javax.faces.FacesException: java.net.MalformedURLException: Path WEB-INF/faces-config-custom.xml does not start with a "/" character
        at com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener.getContextURLForPath(ConfigureListener.java:1638)‍‍‍

This times it sounds like it is an Alfresco bug. Look at the web.xml file. A "/" is missing:

<param-name>javax.faces.CONFIG_FILES</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/faces-config-app.xml,/WEB-INF/faces-config-beans.xml,/WEB-INF/faces-config-navigation.xml,/WEB-INF/faces-config-common.xml,/WEB-INF/faces-config-repo.xml,/WEB-INF/faces-config-wcm.xml,WEB-INF/faces-config-custom.xml,/WEB-INF/faces-config-enterprise.xml</param-value>
</context-param>

stop / start … still problems

Re: How-To: Installing Alfresco 2.0 on GlassFish v2

pcheipe — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 19:20:25 GMT

Oh yes, on Linux, ports with small numbers cannot be opened by another user than root.

The server crashed on opening FTP or NetBIOS port.

Using root to stop / start the server solved the problem.

I've still got one.

[#|2007-03-14T20:52:32.718+0100|SEVERE|sun-appserver-pe9.0|javax.enterprise.system.container.web|_ThreadID=12;_ThreadName=httpWorkerThread-8080-1;_RequestID=7ea54b2a-acdd-4ba0-9f3e-eb1b3b6c5ad7;|StandardWrapperValve[Faces Servlet]: Servlet.service() for servlet Faces Servlet threw exception
java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException
        at javax.faces.application.Application.getELResolver(Application.java:443)
        at com.sun.faces.context.FacesContextImpl.getELContext(FacesContextImpl.java:174)‍‍‍‍

I perhaps missed something in Nick's conf…

Re: How-To: Installing Alfresco 2.0 on GlassFish v2

kevinr — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 09:59:36 GMT

Next problem: Web App is not starting yet.

The log is:
[#|2007-03-14T20:19:59.032+0100|SEVERE|sun-appserver-pe9.0|javax.enterprise.system.container.web|_ThreadID=10;_ThreadName=main;_RequestID=db65bcad-928d-42fb-86c3-15880b0b0d7a;|WebModule[/alfresco]Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener
javax.faces.FacesException: java.net.MalformedURLException: Path WEB-INF/faces-config-custom.xml does not start with a "/" character
        at com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener.getContextURLForPath(ConfigureListener.java:1638)‍‍‍
This times it sounds like it is an Alfresco bug. Look at the web.xml file. A "/" is missing:

<param-name>javax.faces.CONFIG_FILES</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/faces-config-app.xml,/WEB-INF/faces-config-beans.xml,/WEB-INF/faces-config-navigation.xml,/WEB-INF/faces-config-common.xml,/WEB-INF/faces-config-repo.xml,/WEB-INF/faces-config-wcm.xml,WEB-INF/faces-config-custom.xml,/WEB-INF/faces-config-enterprise.xml</param-value>
</context-param>

stop / start … still problems

Yep this was a bug fixed in HEAD recently.

Kevin

Re: How-To: Installing Alfresco 2.0 on GlassFish v2

kevinr — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 10:00:51 GMT

Oh yes, on Linux, ports with small numbers cannot be opened by another user than root.

The server crashed on opening FTP or NetBIOS port.

Using root to stop / start the server solved the problem.

Yes i think you need to start the server as a user with the appropriate rights to open those ports - that's not a bug.

I've still got one.

[#|2007-03-14T20:52:32.718+0100|SEVERE|sun-appserver-pe9.0|javax.enterprise.system.container.web|_ThreadID=12;_ThreadName=httpWorkerThread-8080-1;_RequestID=7ea54b2a-acdd-4ba0-9f3e-eb1b3b6c5ad7;|StandardWrapperValve[Faces Servlet]: Servlet.service() for servlet Faces Servlet threw exception
java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException
        at javax.faces.application.Application.getELResolver(Application.java:443)
        at com.sun.faces.context.FacesContextImpl.getELContext(FacesContextImpl.java:174)‍‍‍‍

I perhaps missed something in Nick's conf…

Not sure about this one

Kevin

Re: How-To: Installing Alfresco 2.0 on GlassFish v2

pcheipe — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:25:24 GMT

pcheipe wrote:
Oh yes, on Linux, ports with small numbers cannot be opened by another user than root.

The server crashed on opening FTP or NetBIOS port.

Using root to stop / start the server solved the problem.

Yes i think you need to start the server as a user with the appropriate rights to open those ports - that's not a bug.

Clearly not. It was just a reminder for the ones like me that forget it too fast .

Re: How-To: Installing Alfresco 2.0 on GlassFish v2

pcheipe — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:32:52 GMT

I found a similar issue on the iceFaces forum:

http://www.icefaces.org/JForum/posts/list/3859.page

Re: How-To: Installing Alfresco 2.0 on GlassFish v2

pcheipe — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:59:37 GMT

Oups ! I also have a "null pointer" just before:

[#|2007-03-14T20:51:45.892+0100|SEVERE|sun-appserver-pe9.0|javax.enterprise.system.container.web|_ThreadID=11;_ThreadName=httpWorkerThread-8080-0;_RequestID=2704bb7f-1c3b-46d6-ab59-8f5b1af45660;|StandardWrapperValve[Faces Servlet]: Servlet.service() for servlet Faces Servlet threw exception
java.lang.NullPointerException
   at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.ELResolverInitPhaseListener.populateFacesELResolverForJsp(ELResolverInitPhaseListener.java:135)
   at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.ELResolverInitPhaseListener.beforePhase(ELResolverInitPhaseListener.java:100)
   at org.apache.myfaces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.informPhaseListenersBefore(LifecycleImpl.java:520)‍‍‍‍‍

Re: How-To: Installing Alfresco 2.0 on GlassFish v2

pcheipe — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 08:39:40 GMT

OK, I solved the nullPointer simply by redeploying the war.

It seems that Glassfish does not take into account the sun-web.xml without redeploying.

It's now the myFaces implementation that is used.

It now crashes on an "UnsupportedException" on "AccessContext.getELContext" of the myFaces implementation.

I Do not understand. This method effectively does noty exist in the myFaces API (see myFaces Javadoc).

Does anybody know when will the 2.1 be available ?

Re: How-To: Installing Alfresco 2.0 on GlassFish v2

kevinr — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:43:57 GMT

In 2.0 we are using MyFaces 1.1.1 (recently HEAD has been upgraded to 1.1.5 which is a noticable improvement). It may be something to do with any faces impl included in GlassFish by default?

Thanks,

Kevin

Re: How-To: Installing Alfresco 2.0 on GlassFish v2

nickmalthus — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 19:22:41 GMT

Sorry for the late response, I have been away from the forums a bit.

Not only must the myfaces implementation be used in the Servlets and custom tags but also in the JSP's. With JSP 2.1 JSF is built into the spec and the JSP compiler treats the JSF tags differently, i.e. the JSF URL is hard coded in the JSP compiler and it will ignore any mapping you make to an alternative implementation.

The only way to get around this is to edit all the JSP's and myfaces TLDs and replace the standard JSF core and html taglib URL's with a custom one, i.e

"http://java.sun.com/jsf/core'-> "http://myfaces.apache.org/jsf/core"
"http://java.sun.com/jsf/html'-> "http://myfaces.apache.org/jsf/html"

I created a JDK 1.6 javascript function to do this for me in the myfaces TLDs extracted to WEB-INF and in all the JSP's.

This is a pain but it is non trivial to replace all the myfaces references in the alfresco code base. I am not a JSF expert so I could to fix the common.Utils generateFormSubmit code that generates all the Alfreso links. If this were fixed to use standard JSF code instead of relying on the HtmlFormRendererBase from the myfaces implmentation, it would go a long way to making Alfresco more portable between JSF implementations. JSF 1.2 is suppose to me mostly backwards compatible so theoretically if Alfresco was modifed to strictly adhere to the JSF 1.1 stanard it *should* work unmodified on glassfish and all these workarounds to support myfaces on GlassFish could go away.

Re: How-To: Installing Alfresco 2.0 on GlassFish v2

pcheipe — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:01:11 GMT

Many thanks Nick.

I did that change. I certainly missed something.

I'm going to check my config.

Re: How-To: Installing Alfresco 2.0 on GlassFish v2

naramski — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 12:13:52 GMT

I've just created an ant build.xml for building Alfresco V2.0 with "Glassfish support".

The script contains a "patch" to the web.xml for using MyFaces and do the tedious process of changing

"http://java.sun.com/jsf/core'-> "http://myfaces.apache.org/jsf/core"
"http://java.sun.com/jsf/html'-> "http://myfaces.apache.org/jsf/html"

You have only to change the processLauncher.xml and to copy the cryptix library to glassfish/domains/domain/lib/ext

On my system, Alfresco deploy now without problem. The final process is detailled on http://www.naramski.info/roller/david/entry/deploy_alfresco_in_glassfish_v2

The build and all the files is in the archive at the bottom of the article.

I hope it helps

Re: How-To: Installing Alfresco 2.0 on GlassFish v2

amerigo5 — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 18:01:28 GMT

Tried this on GlassFish v1 and it didn't work. Does this only work on GlassFish v2?

Also, does your Ant script also work on Alfresco 2.1? Just wondering if you tried.

Thanks.

I've just created an ant build.xml for building Alfresco V2.0 with "Glassfish support".

The script contains a "patch" to the web.xml for using MyFaces and do the tedious process of changing

"http://java.sun.com/jsf/core'-> "http://myfaces.apache.org/jsf/core"
"http://java.sun.com/jsf/html'-> "http://myfaces.apache.org/jsf/html"

You have only to change the processLauncher.xml and to copy the cryptix library to glassfish/domains/domain/lib/ext

On my system, Alfresco deploy now without problem. The final process is detailled on http://www.naramski.info/roller/david/entry/deploy_alfresco_in_glassfish_v2

The build and all the files is in the archive at the bottom of the article.

I hope it helps

Re: How-To: Installing Alfresco 2.0 on GlassFish v2

offtopic — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:27:40 GMT

I followed David Naramski's instructions to the letter. It didn't work neither in 2.0 or 2.1RC :cry:

Re: How-To: Installing Alfresco 2.0 on GlassFish v2

naramski — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:49:23 GMT

Actually, this method works has been tested only with Alfresco 2.0 CE. I will try an upgrade on Alfresco 2.1 ASAP.

If you send me the version of glassfish you wanted to used, I can test it.